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LOWE, William Warren, soldier, was born in Indiana, Oct. 12, 1831. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy and brevetted 2d lieuten- ant of dragoons. July 1, ia53. He was promoted 2d lieutenant, Oct. 22, 1854 ; was transferred to the 2d cavalry, March 3, 1855, and was on frontier duty and on scouting expeditions in Texas, 1855- 60. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Dec. 1, 1856 ; and served as adjutant from May 31, 1858 to May 9, 1861. He served in the civil war in the defences of Wasliington, D.C., 1861; was pro- moted captain in the 2d cavalry, May 9, 1861, and was transferred to the 5th cavalry, Aug. 3, 1861. He participated in the Manassas campaign of July, 1861 ; was commissioned colonel of tlie 5th Iowa volunteer cavalry, Jan. 1, 1863 ; participated in the Tennessee campaign, being engaged at Fort Donelson, Feb. 13-15, 1863. and in command of Forts Henry, Donelson and Heiman, February, 1862, to March, 1863 ; and engaged in cavalry operations in middle Tennessee, northern Ala- bama and Georgia, commanding a brigade or division from March, 1863, to July, 1864. He was brevetted major, Oct. 9, 1863, and lieutenant- colonel, Dec. 15, 1863. for gallant and meritorious services in the cavalry engagement near Chicka- mauga, Ga., and in the cavalry action near Huntsville, Ala., and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Jan. 24, 1865. He was brevetted colonel in the U.S. army and brigadier-general of volunteers, and also brigadier-general in the U.S. army, March 18, 1865. He was promoted major of the 6th cavalry, July 31, 1866, and on June 23, 1869, resigneil from the army. He established smelting and refining works in Omaha,' Neb., en- gaged in mining in Utah, and built the first smelting works in Idaho. He also constructed a railroad and discovered a well of lubricating oil on the Little Popogie river, Wyoming Territory. He died at Omaha. Neb., May 18, 1898.

LOWELL, Anna Cabot (Jackson), educator, was barn in Boston, Mass., Sept. 39, 1811 ; daugh- ter of Patrick Tracy and Lydia (Cabot) Jackson, and granddaugliter of the Hon. Jonathan (q.v.) and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson. She was married, April 18, 1832, to Charles Russell Lowell, son of the Rev. Charles (q.v.) and Harriet Bracket (Sjience) Lowell, who graduated at Harvard, 1826, and died in 1870. She was the mother of two daughters and two sons. The latter. Charles Russell and James, were both killed in the civil war. She established and carried on in Boston a large girls' school, 1840-53. She is the autlior of : The Tlieon/ of Teachinq (1841); Edwnrd'a First Lessons in Orammar (1843): Edioar(Vs First Les- sons in Geonietrtf (1844); Olympic Games (\M^)'. Outlines of Astronomy, or the World as it Appears (1850): introduction to Madame Pulksy's " Black, Red and White " (1852); Thoughts on the Educa-

tion of Girls (1853) ; Seed- Grain for Thought and Discussion (1856); Posies for Children (ISIO). She died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 7, 1874.

LOWELL, Charles, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 15, 1782 ; son of Judge John (born 1743) and Rebecca (Russell) Tyng Lowell, and grandson of the Rev. John and Sarah (Champney) Lowell and of Judge James and Katharine (Graves) Russell. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1800, A.M., 1803: studied theology in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1802-04 : trav- elled in Europe in 1805 ; was installed as pastor of the West Congregational church, Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1806, and remained as such fiftj'-five years. On the failure of his health in 1837, Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol became his colleague, and Dr. Lowell travelled in Europe and the Holy Land, 1837-40. He was married, Oct. 2, 1806, to Harriet Bracket, daughter of Keith and Mary (Traill) Spence, of Portsmouth, N.H., and sister of Capt. Robert Traill Spence, U.S.N, (q.v.), and their son, Charles Russell Lowell, married Anna Cabot Jackson (q.v.). He was secretary of the Massachusetts Historical society ; a corresponding member of the Archaeological Society of Athens, and one of the founders and a member of the Society of Northern Antiquarians of Copenhagen. He was a fellow of Harvard in 1818 and received the degree of S.T.D. from there in 1823. He is the author of: Occasional Sermons (1855); Pixictical Sermons (1855); Meditations for the Afflicted, Sick and Dying ; Devotional Exercises for Communu cants. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 20, 1861.

LOWELL, Charles Russell, soldier, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 2, 1835 ; son of Charles Russell and Anna Cabot (Jackson) Lowell, and grandson of the Rev. Charles (q.v.) and Hannah Bracket (Spence) Lowell. He was grad- uated at Harvard, A.B., 1854, first in his class. When the civil war broke out he was manager of the Mount Savage iron works, Maryland, and he made his way at once to Baltimore and on foot to Wash- ington from the Relay House, railway communication hav- ing been suspended from that point. He

was commissioned captain in the 6th U.S. cavalry, April 20, 1861. and was the officer who recruited Adna R. Chaffee as private in that regiment. He was in command of a squad- ron of the 6th U.S. cavalry in the Army

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