Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lowrey, Sherwood M. February 11, 1887 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

SHERWOOD M. LOWREY, Corporation Official. Electing to follow a business career 
while in college, Sherwood M. Lowrey, treasurer and director of American 
Factors, Ltd., left Harvard University to take a special course at Bryant and 
Stratton’s Commercial School in Boston.
  Returning to Honolulu, he started at the bottom as a bill clerk with Lewers 
& Cooke, Ltd., of which firm his father, Frederick J. Lowrey, has been 
president for many years.
  Three years later, in 1911, he became cashier and manager of the stock and 
bond department of the Guardian Trust Co., Ltd. From 1915 to 1918 he was again 
with Lewers & Cooke as treasurer of the corporation.
  With the intervention of the World War, Mr. Lowrey was called into active 
service with the Hawaiian National Guard with the rank of major. At the close 
of hostilities he joined American Factors, Ltd., as cashier, was transferred 
to the San Francisco office of that firm as assistant manager, and in 1920 
returned to Honolulu as treasurer of the company, his present position.
  Mr. Lowrey is also treasurer of the Olaa Sugar Co., Pioneer Mill Co., Oahu 
Sugar Co., Waimea Sugar Mill, Kekaha Sugar Co., Koloa Sugar Co., Lihue 
Plantation, Makee Sugar Co., Waiahole Water Co., Ahukini terminal & Railway 
Co., Princeville Plantation Co., East Kauai Water Co., Henry May & Co., the 
Hawaiian Canneries Co., and is vice-president of the Royal Hawaiian Sales Co.
  In the line of public activities, Mr. Lowrey is secretary of the Board of 
Harbor Commissioners, treasurer of the Republican County Committee, and a 
former director and treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce. He was treasurer of 
the Mid-Pacific Carnival of 1915. During the Revolution of 1895 he served as a 
messenger for the Citizen’s Guard.
  Mr. Lowrey is a member of the Pacific Club of Honolulu and the Fox Club of 
Cambridge. He was born in Honolulu, Feb. 11, 1887, the son of Frederick Jewett 
and Cherilla L. (Storrs) Lowrey. His early education was received at Punahou 
school, Oahu College and Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. In 1911 he married 
Ida Kopke of Honolulu and they have four children, Jane, Robert, Cherrie and 
Martha Lowrey.



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