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Lowry, Joseph Henry

educator, clergyman, was born April 13, 1852, in Monroe county, Tenn. He received the rudiments of his education in the district schools; then attended the Bolivar Male academy of Madisonville, Tenn., and the Hiwassee college, from which institution he graduated in 1880 with the degree of B. S. In 1880 he was licensed to preach, and three years later was ordained a clergyman in the presbyterian church. He has filled chairs in Cain Creek academy, Loudon college and Hiwassee college; has been county superintendent of public instruction for Monroe county, during 1887-91, and has attained success as a clergyman in Tennessee, and now fills a pastorate in Kincaid.