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language. He translated the shorter catechism, a catecliisiu of the Old Testament history, and a commentary on St. Matthews gospel, into the Sliaughai colloquiiil dialect. He also devoted hiins'jlf to the completion of a Dictionary of tlte Four Books which had been begun by his brother, the Rev. Walter Macon Lowrie (q. v.). He died ill Slianghiii. China, April 30. 1860.

LOWRIE, Samuel Thompson, clergyman, was born in Pittsburg, Pa.. Feb. b, 1«35; son of Walter H. and Riicliel A. (Thompson) Lowrie; grandson of Mathew B. and Sarah (Anderson) Lowrie, and of Samuel and Mary (Parke) Thomp- son, and a descendant of John and Catherine (Cameron) Lowrie. John Lowrie (born in Scot- land, Sept. 20, 1751) came with his family to the United States in 1792, and settled in Butler county. Pa. Mathew B. Lowrie was born May 12, 1778, in Scotland, came to the United States with his father, spent most of his life in Pitts- burg, Pa., and was an older brother of Walter Lowrie (q. v.). Samuel T. Lowrie was graduated from Miami university, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1854; from the Western Theological seminary in 1856, and was licensed the same year by the presbytery of Ohio; studied at the University of Heidel- berg, 1856-57, and at the University of Berlin in 1833. He was ordained by the presbytery of Huntingdon in 1858, and was pastor of Presbyte- rian churches at Alexandria, Pa., 1858-63; Phila- delphia. Pa., 1865-69; Abington, Pa., 1869-74; Ewing, N.J., 1879-85, and co-pastor of Wylie Memorial church at Philadelphia, Pa., 1891-96. He was professor of New Testament literature and e.xegesis at the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., 1874-78, and was chaplain of the Presbyterian hospital at Philadelphia, 1886-89. In 1893 he became corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Historical society, and in 1893 was elected a director of the Princeton Theological seminary. He was married Sept. 6, 1860, to Sarah A. Hague, who died March 6, 1862. and secondly March 5, 1867, to Elizabeth A., daughter of the Rev. H. S. Dickson, of West Chester, Pa. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred uyyon him by Washington and Jefferson college in 1875. He was the principal translator of the commentary on Isaiah and Numbers in the Lange-Sohaff Bible work, and is author of: An Explanation of the Epistle to the Hebreics (1884); Tlie Lord's Supper (1888); and translator of Beyond the Sea (1885).

LOWRIE, Walter, senator, was born in Edin- burgh, Si^otland, Dec. 10, 1784; .son of John and Catherine (Cameron) Lowrie. He came to the United States with his parents in 1792. They settled first on a farm in Huntingdon county. Pa., and later removed to Butler county. He was prepared for the ministry by the Rev. John

McPherrin, the first Presbyterian minister in Butler county, but took up the study of law and entered political life. He was married in 1808 to Amelia, daughter of the Rev. John McPlierrin. She died in 1832, and he married, secondly, in 1833, Mary K., daughter of Joshua Childs, of Springfield, Mass. He was a state senator from Butler county, 1811-18, and U.S. senator, 1819-25. During his senatorial term he was regarded as an authority on questions of political history and constitutional law. He was secretary of the U.S. senate, 1825-36; corresponding secretary of the Western Foreign Missionary society, 1836-37, and of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, 1837-68. He vvas one of the founders of the Con- gressional prayer-meeting and the Congressional temperance society, and was for many years a member of the executive committee of the American Colonization society. He died in New York city, Dec. 14, 1868.

LOWRIE, Walter Hoge, jurist, was born in Armstrong count}', Pa., March 31, 1807: son of Matthew and Sarah (Anderson) Lowrie. He was graduated from the Western University of Penn- svlvania in 1826, and was admitted to the bar, Aug. 4, 1829. He established himself in practice in Pittsburg, Pa., and was judge of the district court of Allegheny county, 1846-51; justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, 1851-57, and chief justice, 1857-63. He resumed practice in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1863, and later became presi- dent judge of the court of common pleas of Crawford county, which position he retained until his death. He was ruling elder in the Second Presbyterian church. Pittsburg, Pa., for many years; was a trustee of the Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, 1851-55, and received the degree of LL.D. from Washington college. Pa., in 1852. He contributed to the Princeton Repertory and other periodicals, and his published communi- cations to the American Philosophical society include Origin of Tides, and Cosmical Motion. Many of his judicial opinions were also printed. He died in Meadville, Pa.. Nov. 14, 1876.

LOWRIE, Walter Macon, missionary, was born in Butler, Pa., Feb. 18, 1819; son of Wal- ter and Amelia (McPherrin) Lowrie. He was graduated from Jefferson college in 1837, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1840; and was ordained evangelist by the second Presbytery of New York, Nov. 9, 1841. He was sent as a foreign missionary to Macao, China, by the second presbytery of New York in January, 1842, and after three years of labor at this sta tion, he removed in 1845 to Ningpo. He made a journey to the city of Shanghai in the summer of 1847 to attend a conference of missionaries, and on his return voyage his vessel wns attacked by pirates and he was thrown overboard. He was