"Mrs. Mary E. Cowell, 86, native Ithacan and a public typist in Washington D.C. for 64 years, died June 12, 1946, in Chicago at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Natalie C. Smith, where she had resided since retirement in 1944.....
Mrs. Cowell was born in Ithaca, May 8, 1860, the daughter of Brig, Gen. William Glenny and Helen M. Glenny, 102 First St. Her grandfather was Herota P. Barnes, active in the Methodist Church here. Her father organized the first company of men to leave Ithaca in the Civil War, entering service as a captain. ..."

"Veteran Typist, Ithaca-Born, Dies," Ithaca Journal, June 24, 1946, 3.