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Austin Cowles (May 3, 1792 – January 15, 1872) was a leader and hymnwriter of the early Latter Day Saint movement. Over the course of his life, Cowles, an ardent anti-polygamist,〔Givens, Terryl L.; Grow, Matthew J. ''Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism'' (Oxford University Press, 2011), 204.〕 was affiliated with Joseph Smith's Church of Christ (later the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), William Law's True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Sidney Rigdon's Church of Christ, James Strang's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, James C. Brewster's Church of Christ, and Joseph Smith III's Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. ==Early life== Cowles was born on May 3, 1792, in Brookfield, Vermont, to Timothy and Abigail (Woodworth) Cowles. As a child, he lost an eye when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow.〔Cowles, Calvin D. ''Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America,'' vol. 1 (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor, 1929), 503-504.〕 Despite minimal education, Cowles became a schoolteacher as a young man and a Methodist Episcopal preacher at age twenty-one. In the latter capacity, he held the first formal religious services in Bolivar, New York, in a barn in 1820. In pioneering the Bolivar area, Cowles and his brother Asa taught at the first schoolhouse, kept the first store, and built the first sawmill and gristmill.〔French, J. H. ''Gazetteer of the State of New York'' (Syracuse: R. Pearsall Smith, 1860), 172.〕 Cowles married Phebe Wilbur on January 14, 1813, and by her had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood. Phebe died on May 1, 1826, whereafter Cowles remarried to Irena Hix Elliott on October 21, 1827. Cowles and Irena had six children.〔 Around 1828, Cowles contracted a disease affecting the bones of his feet, which he suffered from throughout his life.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin Cowles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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