Alfred Cowles Sr. (1832–1889) was an American

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and

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. During the 1860s to 1880s he was a bookkeeper,

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, and business manager of the ''

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'' of which he was part owner.

Biography

Alfred Cowles was born in Mantua, Ohio, on May 13, 1832. His parents were Edwin Weed and Almira Mills Cowles. Another son, Edwin Jr. (1825–1890), became publisher of '' The Cleveland Leader'' newspaper. Edwin married Elizabeth Hutchinson and had two sons: Alfred Hutchinson Cowles and Eugene Hutchinson Cowles (1855–1892). Alfred Cowles married Sarah Frances Hutchinson, who was born in 1837 in Cayuga, New York. She was the daughter of Moseley and Elizabeth Hutchinson. They had four children: Edwin (1861–1861), Alfred Jr. (1865–1939), Sarah Frances (1862–1920), and William Hutchinson (1866–1947). William married Harriet Bowen Cheney, and became a newspaper publisher in

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. William is also the grandfather of William H. Cowles III.

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has a scholarship named for Sarah Frances Hutchinson Cowles, and the

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may still have a fellowship named for her. Alfred Cowles died in Chicago on December 20, 1889. He is interred at Oak Woods Cemetery.

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