American newspaper publisher (1832-1889)
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]
Biography
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 .
See also
Notes
^ 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 .
^ 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.
^ Ferrendelli, Betta (November 11, 2001). "Four generations of Cowles built diverse empire" . Puget Sound Business Journal .
^ Book of Chicagoans . Chicago: A.N. Marquis. 1911. p. 159.
^ Charles Henry Pope, ed. (1897). The Cheney Genealogy . Richardson Reprints. p. 487.
^ "Alfred Cowles Dead" . Evansville Courier & Press . Chicago. December 21, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved November 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.