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Lowe, Joseph G

lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1846, in Rush county, Ind. He is an eminent attorney of Washington, Kan., and has served as a member of the lower house of the Kansas legislature. In 1895 he was appointed state railroad commissioner of Kansas.

LOWE, MRS. MARTHA ANN [PER- RY], author, poet, was born Nov. 21, 1829, in Keene, N. H. She is a poet of Somerville, Mass., whose husband, Charles Lowe, was a unitarian minister of prominence.

She is the author of The Olive and the Pine, a book of verse; Love in Spain, and Other Poems; The Story of Chief Joseph, a poem; and Life of Charles Lowe.

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