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Alfred Cowles Sr. (1832–1889) was an
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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
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, on May 13, 1832. His parents were Edwin Weed and Almira Mills Cowles. Another son, Edwin Jr. (1825–1890), became publisher of ''
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'' 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
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. 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
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(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 William H. Cowles III (March 4, 1932 – April 18, 1992) was an American journalist. He was born in Spokane, Washington, to William Hutchinson Cowles and Margaret Paine Cowles, and was a descendant of Alfred Cowles Sr. of the ''Chicago Tribune'' ...
.
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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
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.


See also

*
Cowles Publishing Company The Cowles Company is an American diversified media company based in Spokane, Washington. The company owns and operates ''The Spokesman-Review'' in Spokane, founded in 1894, and owned the ''Spokane Daily Chronicle'' until it was shut down in 19 ...


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19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Businesspeople from Chicago Businesspeople from Cleveland 1832 births 1889 deaths 19th-century American journalists Cowles family American male journalists 19th-century American male writers {{US-publish-bio-stub