What is "cowdery"

Cowdery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Clive Cowdery (born 1963), English businessman
• John Cowdery (1930–2013), American politician
• Mae Virginia Cowdery (1909–1953), American poet
• Nicholas Cowdery (born 1946), Australian barrister
• Oliver Cowdery (1806–1850), American Latter Day Saint
• Warren A. Cowdery (1788–1851), American Latter Day Saint