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•of the Potomac all through the Peninsula .campaign, at the close of which he was bre- vetted major for gallantry and assigned to the ipersonal staff of General McClellan. At Antie- 5tam he conveyed the orders of the command- ing general under severe fire, rallied broken -regiments and displayed a degree of courage that was rewarded by his being selected to carry the captured standards to Washington. In the au- tumn of 1862 he organized the 2d Massachusetts cavalry, and in May, 1863, was commissioned colonel of the regiment. He was in command of the advanced defences of Washington during the winter of 1863-64, and was engaged against the attack of Early in July, 1864. Later he com- manded the provisional cavalry brigade under Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley, and finally he was given command of the reserve brigade, made up of three regiments of U.S. cavalry, his own regiment and a battery of artillery, which distinguished itself at the battle of Opequon Creek (Winchester), Sept. 19, 1864, and on Octo- ber 9 took a leading part in the overthrow of 'General Rosser's cavalry. At Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864, he held the enemy in check until the •arrival of Sheridan, who formed his new line close behind Lowell's men. Though wounded early in the day, he was lifted on his horse and led his brigade in the final successful chai'ge, where lie received his mortal wound. His com- mission as brigadier-general, issued at the request of General Sheridan, was signed at Washington on the day of this battle. He was married in 'October, 1863, to Josephine (q.v.), daughter of Francis and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw. He -died at Middletown, Va., Oct. 20, 1864.

LOWELL, Edward Jackson, author, was •born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 18, 1845; son of Fran- ^cis Cabot and Mary Lowell (Gardner) Lowell, and grandson of Francis Cabot and Hannah (Jackson) Gardner. He was graduated from Har- vard, A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870, was admitted to the •Suffolk bar in June, 1872, and practised law in Boston, Mass., when he retired from the bar and devoted himself to literary work. He was a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Historical society, the New York Historical society, the American His- torical association, the Military Historical society of IMassachusetts, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was married, Jan. 1, 1868, to Mary Wolcott, daughter of Samuel 'Griswold and Mary (Boot) Goodrich; she died, April 5, 1874. He was married secondly, June 19, 1777, to Elizabeth Gilbert, daughter of George (q.v.) and Sarah M. (Gilbert) Jones of New York city. He contributed a chapter on The Diplo- macy and Finance of the Revolution to Winsor's ^'Narrative and Critical History of America" '(1884), and is the author of: The Hessians and

the other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War (1884); The Eve of the French Revolution (1892), and the foliowiug essays: The Bayeux Tapestry; Life of Benvenuto Cellini; Clothes Historically Considered; A Liberal Education, &nd A Memoir of Tennyson. He died in Cotuit, Mass., May 11, 1894.

LOWELL, Francis Cabot, manufacturer, was born in Newburyport, Mass., April 7, 1775; son of Judge John and Susan (Cabot) Lowell, and grandson of the Rev. Jof^n and Sarah (Champney) Lowell, and of Francis *and Mary (Fitch) Cabot. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1793, A.M., 1796. He was married, Oct. 31, 1798, to Hannah, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson, of Newbury jxirt, Mas«.; she died May 10, 1815. He travelled extensively through England and Scotland, 1810-11. In 1812, with Patrick Tracy Jackson, his brother-in-law, he undertook the manufacture of cotton under many difficulties, as the war of 1812 prevented the importation of machinery from England. After numerous experiments they succeeded in the autumn of 1812 in producing a loom with the assistance of Mr. Paul Moody, a mechanic, of Newburyport, and they obtained a charter under the name of the Boston Manufacturing company with a capital of $100,000. They established their mill in Waltham, Mass., which was probably the first mill in the United States that combined all the operations necessary for converting the raw cotton into finished cloth. Mr. Lowell was mainly instrumental in procuring from congress in 1816 the establishment of the mininnun duty on cotton cloth, an idea which originated with him. After Mr. Lowell's death, Mr. Jackson pur- chased a section of Chelmsford and located mills there and the town was incorporated under the name of Lowell in 1826. He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 10, 1817.

LOWELL, Francis Cabot, judge, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan, 7, 1855; son of George Gard- ner and Mary Ellen (Parker) Lowell; grandson of Francis Cabot and Mary Lowell (Gardner) Lowell, and of James and Annie (Tucker) Parker, and great-grandson of Francis Cabot (born 1775) and Hannah (Jackson) Lowell. He was gradu- ated from Harvard, A.B., 1879, and became a member of the firm of Lowell, Stimson & Lowell. He was married in New York city, Nov. 27, 1882, to Cornelia Prime, daughter of Edmund Lin- coln and Nathalie (Ray) Baylies. He was a member of the Boston common council, 1889-92, and a representative in the Massachusetts leg- isature, 1895-98. He was apjxjinted judge of the U.S. district court of Massachusetts by. President McKinley, Jan. 10, 1898. He was an overseer of Harvard, 188ft-91, and again from 1894; was made a fellow of that corporation, 1895,