From an early age, she was interested in writing, and at the age of 15 was paid for her poem on the death of Queen Victoria, published in The New York Journal.
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When Bishop Manning called a press conference one day to announce a $10,000,000 campaign for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he held up his statement until she got there – 50 minutes late.
They had seven children: Pauline T. McDowell Akins (b. 1874), Nora McDowell Culver (d. 1944), fraternal twins Rachel Kollock McDowell (1880–1949) and Malcolm McDowell (1880–1920), William Timanus McDowell, Ezra Osborne McDowell (1886–1979) and Eulilee McDowell Cook, whom they reared in the Presbyterian Church.
Malcolm McDowell | Rachel | Rachel Carson | Rachel Whiteread | Rachel Ward | Rachel Hunter | Rachel Weisz | Fort McDowell, Arizona | Rachel Dratch | Rachel Bilson | Rachel Roy | Rachel Griffiths | Rachel Zoe | Rachel Sweet | Rachel Stamp | Rachel Ruysch | Rachel McAdams | Rachel Maddow | Rachel Homan | Rachel Corrie | Rachel Tucker | Rachel Smith | Rachel Rath | Rachel McLish | Rachel Grady | Rachel Farley | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Michael McDowell | Joseph J. McDowell | Irvin McDowell |