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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mcgowan, Daniel

Mcgowan, Daniel , Farmer, “Gowanbrae,” Mataura. Mr McGowan was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, in 1837, but before he was ten years old the family went to Scotland, where he was brought up to country pursuits, and worked for fifteen years. He landed at the Bluff on the first of October, 1863, by the ship “Harwood,” and shortly afterwards entered the service of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, at Morton Mains, where he remained six years. He settled at Long Bush, where he bought a farm, which he worked for eight years. In 1875, he acquired 200 acres at Mataura. The land was then in tussock and flax, and two years later he was able to bring his family to the farm. The land has been brought into cultivation as far as possible, and is used chiefly for sheep farming. Mr McGowan is a shareholder in the local cheese factory, and in the Southland Meat Export Company. He was married in Scotland, on the 5th of July, 1861, to a daughter of the late Alexander Anderson, of Lanarkshire, and has six sons and six daughters, of whom eight are married; and there are twenty-eight grandchildren.

Mr. And Mrs D. McGowan.

Mr. And Mrs D. McGowan.