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Low, Samuel – Lowe, William Warren

Low, Samuel

poet, was born Dec. 12, 1765. He published his Poems in two volumes in 1800. The first piece is an ode on the death of Washington, which was recited by John Hodgkinson in the New York theater on Jan. 8, 1800.

Low, Seth

merchant, was born Jan. 18, 1850, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a founder of the Brooklyn bureau of charities and its first president. He was the first mayor in the state to introduce the system of competitive examination for appointments to municipal offices.

Low, Will Hicok

artist, was born May 31, 1853, in Albany, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists. Among his works are Nine of the First Empire; Portrait of Mlle. Albani; Calling Home the Cows; Skipper Ireson; Arcades; and Telling the Bees. He has illustrated two volumes of Keat's poems, the Lamia and Odes and Sonnets, and has done some good work in stained-glass and house decoration.

Lowater, Charles T

poet. He is a writer of Rock Elm, Wis.; and his poems have appeared in the leading newspapers and magazines of Wisconsin.

Lowe, David Pearly

lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1823, in Oneida county, N. Y. He was a member of the state senate in Kansas in 1863 and 1864; and judge of the sixth judicial court of Kansas from 1867 to 1871. He was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses as a republican.

Lowe, Enoch L

governor, was born in Maryland. In 1851 he was elected governor of that state, serving until 1854.

Lowe, John Cupp

educator, lawyer, poet, was born Dec. 6, 1873, in Stella, Neb. For several years he taught shorthand in a business college in Omaha, in which city he has been United States circuit court clerk, and held various other public positions of trust. He contributes extensively to the periodical press, and is the author of several poems of merit.

Lowe, John Williamson

soldier, was born Nov. 9, 1809, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was a captain in the second Ohio volunteers during the Mexican war, and in the beginning of the civil war joined the national army as captain of the first company that was raised in Greene county. He died Sept. 10, 1861, in Nicholas county, Va.

Lowe, Thaddeus S. C

aeronaut, inventor, was born Aug. 20, 1832, in Jefferson, N. H. He invented and put into practical use a portable apparatus for generating hydrogen gas for war balloons. He is the inventor of a machine for making water gas, which is successfully used in a number of large cities.

Ga.

Lowe, William B

railroad president, was born in July, 1839, in Greenville, Since 1889 he has been president of the Columbus Southern railroad at Atlanta, Ga.

Lowe, William Manning

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Huntsville, Ala. He entered the confederate army as a private and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama in 1865-68; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1870; and was elected a representative from Alabama to the forty-sixth congress.

Lowe, William Warren

soldier, was born Oct. 12, 1831, in Indiana. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general for services in the war, and promoted major in 1866. He built on the Salmon river the first smelting works in Idaho, and more recently prospected for petroleum in Wyoming territory, and discovered a well of lubricating oil on the Little Popoagie river.