Alfred_Cowles,_Sr.

Alfred Cowles Sr.

Alfred Cowles Sr.

American newspaper publisher

Alfred Cowles Sr. (1832–1889) was an American businessperson and newspaper publisher. During the 1860s to 1880s he was a bookkeeper, treasurer, and business manager of the Chicago Tribune of which he was part owner.[1]

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Alfred Cowles was born in Mantua, Ohio, on May 13, 1832.[2] 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 Spokane, Washington. William is also the grandfather of William H. Cowles III.[3]

Vassar College has a scholarship named for Sarah Frances Hutchinson Cowles, and the University of Chicago may still have a fellowship named for her.[4][5]

Alfred Cowles died in Chicago on December 20, 1889.[6] He is interred at Oak Woods Cemetery.

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  1. [1]
    White, James Terry (1895). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States. James T. White & Company, via New York Public Library via Internet Archive full view. p. 224. Retrieved October 24, 2007. and Robert Norton Smith (June 10, 1997). Chapter 1, The Colonel, The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955. Houghton Mifflin Co. via The New York Times Company. ISBN 0-395-53379-1. Retrieved October 24, 2007.
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    Andreas, Alfred Theodore (1886). History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. A. T. Andreas Company. p. 696. Retrieved November 12, 2021 – via Google Books.
  3. [3]
    Ferrendelli, Betta (November 11, 2001). "Four generations of Cowles built diverse empire". Puget Sound Business Journal.
  4. [4]
    Book of Chicagoans. Chicago: A.N. Marquis. 1911. p. 159.
  5. [5]
    Charles Henry Pope, ed. (1897). The Cheney Genealogy. Richardson Reprints. p. 487.
  6. [6]
    "Alfred Cowles Dead". Evansville Courier & Press. Chicago. December 21, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved November 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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