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boys, and twelve in Barnard college for Brooklyn girls, and agreed to establish eight annual uni- versity scholarships. In 1896 he gave $10,000 to Barnard college and $5000 to the New York Kin- dergarten association. In 1893, during the threat- ened cholera epidemic, he was chairman of a committee appointed by the New York chamber of commerce to aid the authorities in precau- tionary measures, and Camp Low, named after hiin, was established at Sandy Hook by the national government. He became a student of social science and a frequent arbitrator of labor disputes. With his brother, Abbot Augustus Low, he built in 1894, and presented to the mission station of the Protestant Episcopal church in Wu Chang, China, a completely equipped hos- pital for the use of the mission, erected to per- petuate the memory of his father. He succeeded Charles P. Daly, deceased, as president of the American Geographical society in 1900, and also served as president of the Archaeological Institu- tion of America, and as vice-president of the New York Academy of Science. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Amherst college in 1889, by Harvard university, the University of the State of New York, the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and Trinity college, Con- necticut, in 1890, by Princeton in 1896 and by Yalo in 1901. He resigned the presidency of Columbia university in 1901, upon his election as mayor of the city of New York, and was succeeded by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler (q.v.), who was inaugu- rated in May. 1902.

LOW, Will Hicok, artist, was born in Albany, N.Y., May 31, 1853; son of Addison and Elvira (Steele) Low, and grandson of Samuel Steele. His father was a constructing engineer and an inventor. The son attended school very little, on account of delicate health, and spent most of his time in drawing. In 1870 he sold a sketch to the New York Independent for $50, and soon after settled in New York, where he drew for Apple- ton's Journal, the Hearth and Home, and other periodicals, 1870-72.- In 1872 he exhibited a small oil painting at the National Academy of Design. In 1873 he went to Paris, where he studied first under Gerome and later under Carolus Duran. In 1874 he met Robert Louis Stevenson, who became his closest friend. He was married in 1875 to Bertha Eugene Marie Julienne, of Paris. In 1876 he first exhibited at the Salon, his subject being " Reverie," and the following year he sent a large painting of Albani as Lucia de Lammermoor, painted from life, and also ** Le Jour des Morts." He returned to America in 1877 and opened a studio in New York city, where he occasionally made illustra- tions for books and magazines. He was a teacher in the antique and life classes of the Woman's

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Art school. Cooper Union, 1883-85, and in the schools of the National Academy of Design, 1889-92. He was one of the founders of th© Society of American Artists, 1877, and was made a National Academician in 1890. His more im- portant illustrations are the drawings for Keats's " Lamia " and " Odes and Sonnets'* (1885) ,and a selection of the drawings from these works received award of a silver medal at the Paris Exposition in 1889. His first mural paint- ing was done in 1881, when he assisted John La Farge in decorat- ing the Vanderbilt houses; and his sub- sequent works in

this line include: a ceiling for the reception- room of the Waldorf hotel. New York city,. 1892; four panels in the music-room of C. T. Yerkes's residence. New York, 1896, and twenty panels for the concert hall and ball-room of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, 1897, He designed a series of ten stained-glass windows for St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, Newark, N.J.; the diploma of awards for the Columbian exposition, 1893; several silver certificates for the U.S. government, and many stained-glass windows for large churches tliroughout the coun- try. Besides the works already mentioned, his more noteworthy achievements include: Calling Home the Cows (1880); Skipx)er Ireson's Ride (1881); Arcades (1882); Telling the Bees (1884); Dolce Far Niente; In a Paris Garden; The Beautiful Booh; My Lady; Aurora (1895). He is the author of numerous articles, chiefly on art subjects, contributed to periodicals.

LOWE, Enoch Louis, governor of Maryland, was born in Frederick county, Md., Aug. 10, 1820; son of Lieut. Bradley S.A., and Adelaide Bellumeau (de la Vincendiere) Lowe; grandson of Lloyd M. and Rebecca (Maccubbin) Lowe, and great-grandson of Michael and Ann (Magruder) Lowe. His ancestors settled in Maryland about 1675. He attended St. John's school in Fred- erick, Md., the Roman Catholic college near Dublin, Ireland, and a school at Stonyhurst, Lancashire, England, until 1839. He was ad- mitted to the Maryland bar in 1842, and was a Democratic delegate to the Maryland legislature in 1845. He was married June 1, 1845, to Esther Winder, daughter of Col. James and Anne Maria (Stuart) Polk, of Maryland. He was governor of Maryland, 1851-53, and during his tenure of office.