Madison County AlArchives Biographies.....Lowry, Samuel H. 1850 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 19, 2011, 6:00 am Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers SAMUEL H. LOWRY, M. D., one of the leading young physicians of Madison County, is a son of John T. and Virginia H. (Miller) Lowry. John T. Lowry was of Scotch Irish descent, and a son of Rev. Samuel Lowry, a divine of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, whose wife, Elizabeth Tate, belonged to the well-known family of that name. The father of our subject was an old-time merchant of Huntsville in ante-bellum days, being a member of the firm of Lowry, Hamilton & Co., and also owning large plantations. Like all Southern planters, he lost heavily by the late war having a great number of slaves. He was connected with the commissary department during the struggle, and subsequently resumed farming. which, with an interest in the lumber firm of Mayhew & Lowry, occupied his attention until his death in 1886. He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and left one son. Samuel H. Our subject was born October 16, 1850, and received a superior education, commencing with the schools of Huntsville, and continued at the University of Virginia. His medical studies began at the University of Virginia, and were supplemented by lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, from which institution he was graduated in 1873. He began the practical study of his chosen profession the same year of his graduation in association with Dr. Dement, of Huntsville, and has been a successful and active worker since. Dr. Lowry is a member of the Madison County Medical Society; is secretary of the County Board of Censors; member of the College of Counsellors of the State Medical Association; is Health Officer for the City of Huntsville and County of Madison, and a member of the Order of Knights of Pythias. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART IV. MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA, TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/bios/lowry111nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb