Alice L. MacGowan (December 10, 1858 – March 10, 1947) was an American writer.She was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, the daughter of John Encil MacGowan and Malvina Marie Johnson.[1] The family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee,[2] where her sister Grace was born.[3] Alice was educated in public schools in addition to being home schooled by her father,[1] a Colonel with the Union Army[4] during the American Civil War and editor of the Chattanooga Times from 1872–1903.[5] She was living with her sister at Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony in 1907 when it burned to the ground. Both were taken to Englewood Hospital to recover.[6] Less