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Elizabeth Cheney
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Elizabeth Cheney

American, 1865 - 1898
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  • Bess Cheney
  • Elizabeth Cowles
  • Elizabeth Cheney Cowles
  • Mrs. Alfred Cowles II
  • Elizabeth Cheney
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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