- Alfred Cowles, Sr.
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name = Alfred Cowles
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birth_date = 1832
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death_date = 1889
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known_for =Chicago Tribune
occupation =businessperson Alfred Cowles, Sr. (1832-1889) was an American
businessperson andnewspaper publisher . During the 1860s to 1880s he was bookkeeper, treasurer and business manager of the "Chicago Tribune " of which he was part owner. [cite book|author=White, James Terry|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Td0DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224|publisher=James T. White & Company, via New York Public Library via Google Books full view|date=1895|accessdate=2007-10-24 and cite book|author=Robert Norton Smith|title=Chapter 1, The Colonel, The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick 1880-1955|url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/smith-colonel.html|date=10 June 1997|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co. via The New York Times Company|isbn=0-3955-3379-1|accessdate=2007-10-24]ee also
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NAME = Alfred Cowles, Sr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Alfred Cowles
SHORT DESCRIPTION = businessman, part owner of the "Chicago Tribune " late 1800s
DATE OF BIRTH = 1832
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DATE OF DEATH = 1889
PLACE OF DEATH =
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