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 | | Born in Bedminster Township, educated at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and married to Shepard Kollock's daughter Jane, Rev. William Anderson McDowell was a Presbyterian minister in Bound Brook and Morristown, and in Charleston, South Carolina. |
 | | The son of Augustus W. McDowell, William was a founder of McDowell Brothers and Company in New York City, an investment firm specializing in silver mining, railroads, and land speculation. |
 | | Rachel was a reporter for The Newark Evening News (1902), religious news editor of The New York Herald (1908), and became the first religious news editor of the New York Times in 1920, where she remained in that position until 1948. |
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