An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 322-323
	
	
	M.M. COWLEY, president of the Traders' National Bank of Spokane, Washington,
was born in Ireland, in 1841, and came to the United States in 1856, locating in
Rochester, New York. In 1858 he crossed the plains to California, in which State
he remained until the fall of 1861, when he went to Hillsborough, Oregon, and
remained there that winter. The next spring he moved to Walla Walla, Washington,
and has made this State his home ever since.
	He started a general merchandise store at Spokane Bridge, seventeen miles
east of Spokane, in 1872, and did nearly all kinds of business, at that point
continually until 1879, when he removed to Spokane, and has been prominently
identified with that city since its first house was built. He was one of the
organizers of the Traders' National Bank, which was founded in 1885; was its
cashier for years, and is now its president. Under his management its capital
has been increased from $75,OOO to $2OO,OOO, and the bank is considered the
soundest financial institution in the State.
	Mr. Cowley was married in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1873, to Miss Annie
Connelly, a native of Ireland. They have two daughters, namely: Mary Frances,
aged seventeen years, and Nellie B., aged fifteen, -- both attending school (the
Academy of the Sacred Heart) in San Francisco, California.
	Mr. Cowley is largely interested in real estate in and around Spokane; is a
Democrat in his political views, and in his religious connections he is a member
of the Catholic Church. He is loved and respected by all who know him, and there
is probably no man in the State more thoroughly posted in the early history of
this locality than he.
	
	
Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in September 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer
	
	
	
	
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