Random obituaries prove nothing - LOL. Seriously, you will need to do better.There’s a 1946 Pipes Magazine piece that lists Lewis Cowan as the designer and head of the shop and how he was in America 29 years in 1946.
So in 1917 a pipe maker from Lowe’s immigrated to America.
He’d better have had bone spurs or past draft age.
We also know a grandaughter begged a price reduction on a Marxman pipe and said
As a little girl she polished her grandfather’s pipes, and he had the right to make them as long as he lived, then no more—he couldn’t sell it.
And she said, he’d moved to California
View attachment 381765
View attachment 381766
That has to be our man Robert Louis (or Lewis) Cowan born in the 1890s in Scotland.
Thomas Cowan was his father.
R.L. Cowan’s remaining siblings were in California when he retired.
But wait!
He had a mother dear!
She no doubt sang him this lullaby the same as my dear mother sang it to me.
Neither are of interest unless you are interested in someone else other than Louis Cowan.
Wait a minute. You were searching for a Lewis Cowan. Now you are looking for a Louis Cowan?
Do you know if there is a year of manufacture range for the Mastercraft era??
In 1953 Marx sold out to Mastercraft and was given an executive position there, but I'm not quite sure how long that continued. Possibly through the 60s?
He worked there into the 70s. He actually won a senior Mr Atlas Award. He kept his physic. Mastercraft - Pipedia - https://pipedia.org/wiki/Mastercraft
Apparently he turned down an offer to play ball with the Cincinnati Reds, and was a model, posing for the sculptor Jo Davidson. There was an article a YouTuber read in a vid , I can't find it though.
