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 LOWRY

LOWRY

unmarried. He is the author of : The Land of Sinai, or an Exposition of Isaiah XLIX, 12 <1850); Sermons Preached in China (1851). His Memoir was edited by his father and published in 1849. He died in tlie China sea, Aug. 19, 1847. LOWRY, Joseph Ed mend, educator, was born in Monroe county, Tenn., May 11, 1868; son of Hugh Kelso and Isabella (Cook) Lowry, and grandson of William and Nancy (Kelso) Lowry and of Jacob and Mary (Shields) Cook. He at- tended the High school in Loudon, Tenn., and was graduated from Hiwassee college, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1889. He was admitted to the Holston con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal church south, Oct. 3, 1888, and served charges in Maynardville, Knoxville, Louisville, Madison ville, and Philadel- phia, Tenn. He was married July 19, 1892, to Mary Cordelia Ault of Knoxville, Tenn. On May 20. 1898, he was elected president of Hiwassee college and was re-elected to that office May 21, 1900.

LOWRY, Robert, representative, was born in Ireland in 1822. His parents immigrated to the United States and located in Rochester, N.Y., where he attended the public schools. He was librarian of the Rochester Athenaeum and Young Men's Christian Association ; studied law, and in 1843 removed to Fort Wayne, Ind. He was city recorder of Fort Wayne in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in 1845, and settled in practice in Go- shen, Ind., in 1846. He was appointed judge of the 10th circuit in 1852 to fill out an unexpired term ; was the defeated candidate on the Demo- cratic ticket for representative in the 35th con- gress in 1856 ; was president of the Democratic state convention that year, and one of the four delegates-at-large to the Democratic national cDuvention at Charleston, April 23 and Balti- more, June 18, 1860. He practised law in Chicago, III., 1861-62 ; was judge of the 10th Indiana circuit, 1864-75 ; was the defeated candi- date for representative in the 40th congress in 1866 and again in 1868, and settled in practice in Fort Wayne in 1867. He resigned, and was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic national convention at Baltimore, July 9, 1872 ; and in 1875 resigned his circuit judgeship and became a member of the law firm of Lcwry, Robertson & O'Rourke. He was judge of the newly established superior court of Allen county, 1877-82 ; was first president of the State Bar association ift 1879, and was a represent- ative from the 12tli Indiana district in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-87, where he was chairman of the house commission to investigate and report concerning the reorganization of the several scientific bureaus of the government, and of the committee on expenditures in the treasury department.

LOWRY, Robert, clergyman and song writer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 12,1826; son of Crozier Lowry. His parents were mem- bers of the Associate Presbytt-rian church. He joined the Baptist church April 23, 1843, and begaa Sunday-school work. He was graduated at Buck- nell university with valedictory honors, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857 ; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Westchester, Pa., 1854-58 ; the Bltxim- ingdale Baptist church, New York city, 1858- 61 ; the Hanson Place Baptist church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1861-69 ; was Crozer professor of rhetoric, Bucknell university, and pastor of the Lewisburg Baptist church, 1869-75 ; curator of Bucknell university, 1875-82, and chancellor of the board, 1876-82. He removed to Plainfield, N.J., in 1875, and was the first pastor of the 1 };i k Avenue Bap- tist church, 1876-85. He made the tour of Europe twice, and in 1880 was a speaker at the Robert Raikes centennial in London, England. He was twice elected moderator of the East New Jersey Baptist association ; was for several years president of the New Jersey Baptist Sun<lay, school convention, and a member of the New Jer- sey Baptist Education society. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Bucknell in 1875. He edited eighteen collections of hymns for church choirs and Sunday schools, and his com- positions are in all the popular hymnals. He is the author of numerous well known gospel hymns, including : Shall We Gather at the River ; I Xeed Tliee Every Hour ; Where is My Wandering Boy • all immediately popular in America and Eng- land. He died in Plainfield, N.J., Nov. 25, 1899.

LOWRY, Robert, governor of Mississippi, was born in Chesterfield district, S.C, March 10, 1829 ; son of Robert and Jemima (Rushing) Lowry, and grandson of John and Temperance (Rushing) Lowry. He received a country school education, be- came a lawyer and practised in Brandon, Rankin county, Miss., where he volunteered in 1861 as a private in Co. B, 6th Missis- sippi infantry, for service in the Con- federate army. When the regiment was organized he was elected major, and the regiment was stationed at Bowling Green, Ky., and formed part of Gen. A. S. Johnston's army of the Mississippi. At the battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), April 6-7. 1862. the 6th regiment, which was part of Gen. P.