Neil Murdock McGowan

MCGOWAN, NEIL MURDOCK, merchant and automobile dealer; b. 5 May 1903 in Kilmuir, son of Malcolm Campbell McGowan and Jessie Murchison; m. 1 February 1930 Lorna Ellen Weatherbie, and they had four children, Joan, Sidney, Jessie, and John; Presbyterian; d. 5 August 1983 in Montague. McGowan, a Conservative, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1943 for 4th Kings. He was defeated in the general elections of 1935, 1939, and 1947. His brother Douglas'' also served in the Legislative Assembly. McGowan received his early education at the Kilmuir School, and later attended Mount Allison Academy, where he graduated in 1925 from the Commercial Program. He was president of McGowan's Limited general merchants from 1926 until his retirement in 1967, when the firm closed. He also was an automobile dealer. McGowan was a member of the Kings County Board of Trade and the International Order of Oddfellows Lodge. He was a member of the Caledonia Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder and clerk of session for many years. Murdock McGowan died 5 August 1983 at the Kings County Memorial Hospital. Lorna McGowan was the daughter of Colonel S. S. Weatherbie of Bellevue.