Alfred Cowles, Sr.

Alfred Cowles, Sr.

Infobox Person
name = Alfred Cowles


caption =
birth_date = 1832
birth_place =
death_date = 1889
death_place =
other_names =
known_for = Chicago Tribune
occupation = businessperson

Alfred Cowles, Sr. (1832-1889) was an American businessperson and newspaper 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

* Cowles Publishing Company

Notes

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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
PLACE OF BIRTH =
DATE OF DEATH = 1889
PLACE OF DEATH =


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