Alameda County Biographies

E. J. Cowing

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	E. J. Cowing is general manager of the Lehnhardt Candy Factory, and thus an active 
factor in the commercial circles of Oakland. He was born in San Francisco in September, 1886, 
and is regarded as one of the more enterprising and progressive young business men of his city. 
His parents were E. H. and M. G. Cowing. The father came to California in 1860 and settled in 
San Francisco, where he later engaged in the canning business. The son attended the public and 
high schools of Alameda until he reached the age of nineteen years, when he entered the 
commission business in San Francisco, being active in that line until 1907, when he sold out 
and became general manager for the Lehnhardts at Oakland. The company has just completed a 
fine two-story brick building at the corner of Twenty-fourth and Grove streets, to be used as 
a factory for the manufacture of candy and ice cream. The building is modern in every sense 
of the word, is thoroughly equipped along all lines, and has been supplied with every facility 
that will promote sanitary conditions or advance excellence in manufacture. That the product 
is of high grade is indicated by the growing patronage. The retail store is located on Broadway 
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets and is the leading confectionery establishment of 
Oakland.
	Mr. Cowing was married in Oakland to Miss Edna Anita Lehnhardt in October, 1908. They 
have two children�Marjorie Joel, four years of age, and Emil Joseph, two years of age. In his 
political views Mr. Cowing is a progressive. He does not seek nor desire office, preferring to 
concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. He is yet a young man, and the progress 
that he has already made indicates the success which will come to him in the future, for he has 
selected as the foundation upon which to build prosperity the substantial qualities of industry, 
determination and thorough understanding of everything that he undertakes.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 398