Ida-Sac County IA Archives Biographies.....Low, C. A. 1841 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

C. A. LOW, one of the prominent and representative men of Delaware township,
located here in 1884. He came to Ida county, Iowa, in 1881, where he located in
Douglas township. He was born in Governeur, St. Lawrence county, New York, July
12, 1841, and was a son of Joseph Low, a native of Montreal, Canada, but was
reared in Vermont. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Emily Lake,
who was born near Rochester, New York, and died in Illinois in 1886, at the age
of seventy-one. The father died in Delaware township in 1892, at the age of
eighty-one. They were the parents of five children, as follows: Harvey K.,
Clinton A., Henry J., Janet S. and Julia E., and one of these, Harvey, was in
the army in an Ohio regiment and died in western Virginia of fever.

   Our subject was reared in St. Lawrence county, New York, educated in the
common schools and learned the trade of carpenter. August 9, 1862, he enlisted
in Company A, One hundred and Forty-second New York Volunteers, and served three
years. He was first under fire in South Carolina near Charleston, also
participated in the battles at Bermuda Hundreds, Cold Harbor, below Richmond,
before Petersburg and then at Fort Fisher and Raleigh, North Carolina. At this
city our subject was honorably discharged and returned to Ogdensburg, New York,
and remained in that State some eighteen months. He then went to Bristol,
Kendall county, Illinois, remaining about one year and then migrated to
Coopersville, Ottawa county, Michigan, where he remained two years and then
returned to Bristol, Illinois, remaining this time eight or nine months. He then
returned to Coopersville and made that town his home for three months and then
went to Ogdensburg, New York, and from there to Aurora, Illinois. At this
pleasant city he remained eighteen months and from there went to Lee Center, Lee
county, Illinois, remaining two years, then to Leeland, Illinois, back again to
Lee Center, and from there to Douglas township, Ida county, Iowa, farming at the
latter place until 1884, when he located in Sac county and bought out D. M.
Sawyer's improved farm consisting of eighty acres, and our subject has it well
improved and cultivated. The building is a good one, 16 x 32 feet, surrounded by
a beautiful grove and orchard of some four acres. During the summer of 1891 he
was a sailor on the Great Lakes on a boat that ran from Ogdensburg to Chicago.

   Our subject was first married, at the age of twenty-five, to Miss Sarah Jane
Cooper, who was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, a daughter of Ivory and
Laura (Lake) Cooper, but she died in 1868. Our subject was again married in
1870, in Newark, Kendall county, Illinois, to Margaret Finlayson, who was born
in Scotland, and who when young came to that State with her parents. She was a
daughter of William and Jeanette (Mitchell) Finlayson, natives of Scotland, who
were early settlers in the town of Yorkville, Illinois. They reared six
children, one son and five daughters, the former serving through the late war in
the Thirty-sixth Volunteer Infantry. To our subject and his wife two children
have been born: Jennie E. and Julia E.

   Our subject is one of the prominent members of the Democratic party in
Delaware township, is one of the present Township Trustees, and has served on
the School Board. Socially he belongs to William Price Post, G. A. R., No. 392,
and is also a member of Newall Lodge, (Masonic,) No. 428. Our subject is one of
the most highly esteemed men in this locality, his frank, genial manner making
him many friends. He is always interested in all the measures for the public
good in his neighborhood and is justly considered one of the best citizens.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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