Alice Mary Dowd

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Alice Mary Dowd

1855–1943 · Virginia, US
Alice Mary Dowd (16 December 1855 – 2 July 1943) was an American educator, poet and author whose career, beginning at age seventeen, spanned more than three decades of American teaching across district school, evening school, private school

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Heritage: Dowd-surname carrier born in Virginia in 1855; no Irish ancestry documented. Heritage classification: surname-carrier; no documented Irish lineage in cited sources.

Alice Mary Dowd (16 December 1855 – 2 July 1943) was an American educator, poet and author whose career, beginning at age seventeen, spanned more than three decades of American teaching across district school, evening school, private school, high school, college and Sunday school. She published a volume of verse, *Vacation Verses*, in 1890 and a botanical work, *Our Common Wild Flowers*, in 1906; with her sister Luella Dowd Smith she co-authored a third volume of poetry, *Along the Way*, in 1938. She was an occasional contributor to local newspapers and a regular contributor at one point to the magazine edition of the *Pasadena News*. She retired in 1926 and died at her home in Hudson, New York in 1943, aged 87. She is buried at Pine Hill Cemetery in Westfield.

Heritage notes

Family root: Virginia, US — diaspora-unconfirmed-surname-only.

The directory threads Alice Mary Dowd back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.

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