Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lowrey, Frederick Jewett October 18, 1858 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr jessicanorr@gmail.com September 28, 2011, 10:26 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by George F. Nellist FREDERICK JEWETT LOWREY, Business Director. Frederick J. Lowrey has been identified with the development and upbuilding of important Hawaiian commercial interests since 1879, when he began his business career in the islands as an employe of the pioneer firm of Lewers & Cooke, then known as Lewers & Dickson. An excellent business training and personal integrity and ability were the foundations of Mr. Lowrey’s success in Honolulu. He advanced rapidly with Lewers & Cooke and in 1886, in recognition of his services, was admitted to partnership. In 1901, when the company was incorporated as Lewers & Cooke, Ltd., Mr. Lowrey was elected president, an office he still occupies. Beginning as lumber merchants only, Lewers & Cooke branched into the shipping business, operating its own fleet of lumber carriers between Honolulu and Pacific Coast ports, and hardware and house furnishing departments were added, with a full line of building materials. A notable community service has been rendered by the firm in recent years through an organization which extends aid to home builders. During its many years under the direction of Mr. Lowrey, Lewers & Cooke, Ltd., has become one of the most important commercial institutions of the Hawaiian Islands. His heavy responsibilities with Lewers & Cooke have not monopolized Mr. Lowrey’s interests, however. He is president of the Oahu Sugar Co., Ltd., one of the largest and most successful plantations in the world; president of the Waiahole Water Co., and the Oahu Cemetery Association, and a director of American Factors, Ltd. In public service, Mr. Lowrey was chairman of the Board of Prison Inspectors for several years and a member of the Board of Health during the plague epidemic. He is a former president of the Queen’s Hospital and of the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and served as a captain in the Citizen’s Guard during the Revolution. He has been a trustee of the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A. for a period of years, still holds those positions, and is a trustee of Central Union Church. He is a member and former president of the Social Science Association and the Chamber of Commerce, and holds memberships in the Pacific, Commercial and Oahu Country Clubs. Mr. Lowrey was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 18, 1858, the son of Frederick Canfield and Alice L. (Moore) Lowrey, and the descendant of Revolutionary stock. His education was received in the public schools of Pittsfield and a California business college. His first work was in San Francisco as a bookkeeper, the capacity in which he first joined Lewers & Cooke. In 1884 Mr. Lowrey married Cherilla L. Storrs in Honolulu and they had four children, three of whom survive, Frederick Dwight, Sherwood Moore, and Alan Jewett Lowrey. Mrs. Lowrey died in 1918, and in 1921 Mr. Lowrey married Maud Gregory Phillips in Washington, D.C. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/lowrey102gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb