Lovering, William C – Lowell, Edward Jackson
Lovering, William C
manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born in Rhode Island. He served for a short period in the war as engineer at Fort Monroe; and retired from the service an invalid. He was state senator for two years from Massachusetts in 1874-75.
He was nominated by acclamation in the congressional convention of the twelfth district in 1896, and elected to the fiftyfifth congress. was
Lovett, John
congressman, born in Norwich, Conn. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1800 and 1801; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1813 to 1814, and from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1818 in Ohio.
Lovett, Robert Watkins
physician, clergyman, was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Screven county, Ga. He graduated from Emory college, Georgia, with distinction in 1843; and from the Georgia Medical college of Augusta in 1844.
In 1865 he was a delegate to the Georgia constitutional convention; was a delegate to the general conference of the methodist episcopal church south in 1870, 1874 and in 1878. He has attained success as a physician and clergyman in Mobley, Ga.
Lovewell, John
centenarian, was born in 1634 in England. He was an ensign in Oliver Cromwell's army about 1653, afterward emigrated to New England, settled in Weymouth, Mass., and was with Capt. Benjamin Church during King Philip's war and in the Narragansett Swamp fight in 1675. He died about 1754 in Dunstable, Mass.
Low, Frederick Ferdinand
congressman, governor, was born June 30, 1828, in Frankfort, Maine. He was a representative from California to the thirtyseventh congress, taking his seat during the second session thereof. He was governor of California from 1863 to 1865. He was appointed minister to China in 1871; and was empowered to negotiate a treaty with Corea.
Low, Isaac
merchant, congressman, was born about 1735 near New Brunswick, N. J. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1774 and 1775. He was a member of the New York provincial congress in 1775, but was arrested in 1776 on suspicion of holding correspondence with the enemy. In 1782 he was president of the New York chamber of commerce.
He died in 1791 in England.
Low, James E
surgeon, was born in 1837, in Otsego county, N. Y. He has made a number of innovations in the science of dentistry, and through his advanced ideas has contributed materially to its progress.
Low, Philip Burrill
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born May 6, 1836, in Chelsea, Mass. He was appointed acting ensign in the United States navy and served in the North Atlantic squadron during 1862-63. He resigned and entered commercial circles of Boston until 1865, when he removed to New York, where he has since been identified with the shipping and maritime interests. He received the nomination for congress by acclamation in 1894 as the republican candidate in the fifteenth New York district; and was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
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.
Lowber, James William
educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born in 1847 in Chaplin, Ky. He attended the university of Indianapolis, from which institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; then attended the Syracuse university, graduating from the classical course with the degree of Ph. D. For many years he was the editor of The Apostolic Church, of Louisville, Ky. He has been president of the Columbia Christian college; and has filled pastorates in Scranton, Pa.; Louisville and Paducah, Ky.; Fort Worth, Galveston, and Austin, Texas, in which latter city he now resides. He is the author of Culture; Struggles and Triumphs of the Truth; and other works.
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, 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.
Lowe, Ralph P
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1805 in Montgomery county, Ohio. In 1849 he removed to Keokuk, Iowa; and in 1853 was elected judge of the first judicial district. In 1857, while serving his second term as district judge, he was elected governor of the state; and before the close of his term was elected a judge of the state supreme court for the term of six years. He became chief justice of that court. He died Dec. 22, 1883, in Washington, D. C.
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.
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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.
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence
educator, lawyer, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 13, 1856, in Boston, Mass. He is a successful lawyer in his native city; and has been a lecturer in the Harvard university. He is the author of Essays on Government; Governments and Parties of Continental Europe; and other works.
LOWELL, MRS. ANNA CABOT [JACK- SON], was born in 1819 in Boston, Mass.
She is the author of Theory of Teaching; Edward's First Lessons in Grammar and Geometry; Outlines of Astronomy; Letters to Madame Pulksky; Seed Grains for Thought; and several compilations. She died Jan. 7, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass.
Lowell, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 15, 1782, in Boston, Mass. He was a prominent unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church from 1806 until his death. He was the author of Occasional Sermons; Practical Sermons; Meditations for the Afflicted; and Devotional Exercises for Communicants. He died Jan. 28, 1861, in Boston, Mass.
Lowell, Edward Jackson
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 18, 1845, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston; and the author of The Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War; and The Eve of the French Revolution. He died in