Obituary of Governor Robert Lowry, Pulaski Co, Ar *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V. Isbell < > Date: 1 May 2011 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** New York Times, Jan. 19, 1910 - Ex - Governor RobertLowry Dead - Jackson, Miss. Jan. 19 - He died at his home in this city tonight. He was born in Chesterfield, S. Carolina, on Mar. 10, 1831, and moved with his parents to Mississippi when quite young., and there became engaged in business after receiving a common school education. Later he moved to Arkansas, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. He practiced until the breaking out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army. Serving throughout, and mustered out of service with the rank Brig. General. After the war he was commissioned by the Governor of Mississippi to visit Pres. Johnson for the purpose of securing the release of Jefferson Davis, but he failed in this mission. He resumed the practice of law but in Mississippi this time. And in 1865 was elected to the state senate. In 1881 he was elected Governor and was renominated in the following election. He carried through a great many reforms, some of which are still in existence in Mississippi. Extracted from: New York Times via Ancestry.com