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Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.27, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyright Und ...
Elizabeth Cheney
Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.27, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyright Undetermined

Elizabeth Cheney

American, 1865 - 1898
BiographyElizabeth Cheney was born in 1865, the daughter of Knight Dexter Cheney (1837-1907) and Ednah Dow Smith (1841-1862).

She married Alfred Cowles, II in 1890. They had four children: Alfred Cowles, III (b. 1891); Knight Cheney Cowles (1892-1970); John Cheney Cowles (1894-1972); and Thomas Hooker Cowles (1895-1927).

In 1898, she was living in Chicago, Illinois where she died of tuberculosis.
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