Frank Cowan

Frank Cowan (1844–1905) was an American writer, physician and lawyer from Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He served as private secretary to President Andrew Johnson, practiced law and medicine, traveled widely, and published poems, novels, a history of Pennsylvania's southwestern counties, and an account of a voyage to Greenland. His best-known book is Curious Facts in the History of Insects, Including Spiders and Scorpions, compiled in the Library of Congress during the winter of 1863 and published in 1865, a collection of legends, superstitions, omens, medical and culinary uses, and remarkable appearances connected with insects, gathered from classical, medieval and modern sources.