Alison "Eilley" Oram Bowers (September 6, 1826 – October 27, 1903) was a Scottish American woman who was, in her time, one of the richest women in the United States, and owner of the Bowers Mansion, one of the largest houses in the western United States at the time. She was a Scottish farmer's daughter who, after converting to Mormonism as a teenager, immigrated to the United States. After briefly living in Nauvoo, Illinois, she became an early Nevada pioneer, farmer and miner. She became a millionaire during the Comstock Lode mining boom. Married three times and divorced twice, she had three children but outlived them all.
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