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Lowell, Joshua A

educator, lawyer, congressman, was born March 20, 1801, in Thomaston, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1832, 1833, 1835, and 1837; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1839 to 1843. He was a presidential elector in 1844. He died March 13, 1874, in Machias, Maine.

LOWELL, MRS. MARIA [WHITE], poet, was born July 8, 1821, in Watertown, Mass. She was the first wife of J. R.

Lowell; and the author of a volume of poems. The Alpine Sheep is her best known poem. She died Oct. 27, 1853, in Cambridge, Mass.

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