High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. A Scottish farmer`s daughter, Eilley converted to Mormonism as a teenager, before immigrating to the United States. After briefly living in Nauvoo, Illinois, she became an early Nevada pioneer, farmer and miner, and was made a millionaire by the Comstock Lode mining boom. Married three times and divorced twice, she had three children but outlived them all.