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Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.26 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Ednah Dow Smith
Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.26 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Ednah Dow Smith

1841 - 1915
BiographyEdnah Dow Smith was born 12 May 1841 to Samuel Garfield Smith (1799-1842) and Elizabeth Dow Leonard (1806-1879). She married Knight Dexter Cheney (1837-1907) of Manchester silk fame in 1862. They had eleven children together between 1862 and 1881: six daughters and five sons.

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