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bytery of Ohio, June 21, 1832 ; studied at Prince- ton Theological seminary, 1832-33, and was or- dained by the presbytery of New Castle, May 23, 1833. He was sent out by the Western Foreign Missionary society as a missionary to Northern India in 1833, and returned in 1836 on account of failing health. He was married in 1833 to Louisa, daughter of Thomas Wilson, of Morgantown, Va., who died in India, and secondly in 1838 to Eliza- betli, daughter of Samuel Boyd, of New York city. He was assistant secretary of the Presby- terian Board of Foreign Missions, 1838-50, corre- sponding secretary, 1850-91, and secretary em- eritus, 1891-1900. He was pastor of the 42d Street Presbyterian church. New York city, 1845-50, and moderator of the general assembly of the Presby- terian church in 1865. He received the degree of D.D. from Miami university, Ohio, in 1853. He edited the Foreign Ilissionary Chronicle (1838- 49); the Foreign Record (1850-53, and 1861-86), and the Foreign Missionary (1842-65). He con- tributed articles and sermons to the Princeton Review, and is the author of : Travels in North India (1841), reissued as Tivo Years in Upper India (1850); A Manual of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1855); Missionary Papers (1882); Presbyterian 3Iissions (1893); and Memoirs of Hon. Walter Lowrie (1896). He died at East Orange, N. J., May 31, 1900.

LOWRIE, John Marshall, clergyman, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., July 16, 1817 ; son of Mat- thew and Sarah (Anderson) Lowrie, and nephew of Senator Walter Lowrie (q.v.). He was gradu- ated from Lafayette college in 1840, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1843. He was licensed to preach by the Newton presbytery, April 27, 1842, and was ordained at Blairstown, N.J., Oct. 18, 1843. He was pastor at Blairs- town and Knowlton, N.J., 1843-45 ; at Wellsville, Ohio, 1846-50 ; at Lancaster, Ohio, 1850-56, and at Fort Wayne, 1856-67. He received the degree of D.D. from Miami university in 1858. He is the author of: Adam and His Times (1862); Esther and Her Times (1862) ; The Hebrew Law Giver (1866); A Week ivith Jesus (1866); Tlie Translated Prophet (1868); The Prophet Elijah (1869); Tlie Life of David (1869); and a tract en- titled : The Christian in the Church (1879). He died at Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 26, 1867.

LOWRIE, Jonathan Roberts, lawyer and botanist, was born in Butler, Pa., March 16, 1823; son of Walter and Amelia (McPherrin) Lowrie. He was graduated from Jefferson col- lege in 1842, and studied law with his cousin, Walter Hoge Lowrie (q.v.). He practised at Holidaysburg, Pa., 1846-54, and at Warrior's Mark, Pa., in 1854-85. He devoted much time to the study of botany and to the cultivation of an

arboretum on his estate. He made a large coUeo tion of rare plants and discovered one new species Prunua Alleglianiensis, and others new to the state of Pennsylvania. He was married, Feb. 15 1848, to Mary, daughter of Jolm Lyon, and after her death to Matilda, daughter of the Rev. Dr Nassau. He served as a ruling elder in the Pres^ byterian church for several years. He died at Warriorsniark, Pa., Dec. 10, 1885.

LOWRIE, Randolph Washington, clergyman, was born in Cincinnati, Oliio, Jan. 26, 1839 ; son of William Frederick and Margaret Elizabeth (Sheriff) Lowrie, and grandson of Levi and Matilda (Wilson) Sheriff. His father, a native of Nottinghamshire, England, emigrated to Amer- ica in 1828. He attended Bladensburg academy, Md., and studied law, but abandoned it for the ministry in 1861. He was admitted to the diaco- nate in 1863, and was ordained priest in 1865, at Baltimore, Md. ; was curate in St. A 1 ban's and the Ascension parishes, Washington, D.C., 1863- 65 ; rector of the Church of Incarnation, Wn.sh- ington, 1865-71 ; of St. Paul's, Winona, Minn., 1873-78 ; curate of a parish in Prince George's county, diocese of Washington, 1885-91, co- editor for some years of the Church Press, New York city, and literary editor on several other corps. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Trinity college, Hartford, in 1885, and that of D.D. from St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1898. He is the author of : History of the English Church (1874-80) ; How to Behave in the Pariah (1881); The English Church for American Chil- dren (1883); Openly before the Church (1884), and many poems, among them, The Rock of Israel (1875), and Ship of My Soid. He fur- nished articles for Johnson's Universal Cyclo- paedia ; also contributed to various American periodicals, and wrote many carols, poems, songs and hymns.

LOWRIE, Reuben Post, teacher and mission- ary, was born in Butler, Pa., Nov. 24, 1827; son of Walter and Amelia (McPherrin) Lowrie. He was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1846, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1849. He was princi- pal of an academy at Wyoming, Pa., 1849-51 ; assistant professor of the Greek and Latin lan- guages and literature in the University of the City of New York, 1851-52, and during the vaca- tions of 1851-52, a teacher in the Spencer academy of the Choctaw Indian mission. He was or- dained an evangelist by the presbytery of Luzerne, Pa., March 22, 1854. He was married, March 29, 1854, to Amelia Palmer, daughter of James N. Tuttle, and she accompanied him to Shanghai, China, on his missionary duties in 1854. He spent the remainder of his life there. and devoted himself to the study of the Chinese