Caldwell County MO Archives History .....LOW FAMILY IN HAMILTON, 1867 
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THE LOW FAMILY IN HAMILTON, 1867
	Narrator:  Mrs. Lottie (Low) Daniels

     The Low family started in Hamilton life the fall of 1867.  Soon the 
father Frederick P. Low became a leader. He was born in Me. 1814 and died in 
Hamilton 1895.  For 50 years, he held some sort of public office either in Me. 
or in Mo.  He had 6 children:  Sarah, Lewellen, Herbert, Marcus A., Eugene, 
Leon.  Of these, Herbert, M.A. and "Gene" came to maturity.  In the old town 
records, the name F.P. Low frequently is seen.  He went into the printing 
office (which his son Marcus started) to keep the youngsters there straight.  
This oldest son, Marcus, to become noted M.A. Low, started the Hamilton News 
which was in a frame building on south Main.  Herbert also worked on it.  M.A. 
later on became a lawyer and still later, became the president of the C.R.I. 
and St. F. railroad.  The youngest son Herbert was popular in Hamilton society 
and his marriage to Lottie Read was a society event.  Later, the couple were 
divorced.  They had three children - Homer, Haddie and Mignon.  They lived 
while in Hamilton in the big square house far down on Kingston street, now the 
Dr. Smith house.  Herbert died of consumption 1893.
     Eugene Low married Florence Moore daughter of C.B. Moore of Hamilton.  
They had one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Low Hughes of Chicago.  Both the parents are 
dead.  Eugene had tried almost every occupation during his life.  He was born 
1845 in Maine, enlisted in the Union army at sixteen years of age.  After the 
war, he went out west freighting and also taught school in Kansas and 
Nebraska.  In 1876-8, he helped run a newspaper.  In 1880, he built the Low 
building on west side of North Main street in Hamilton and ran a grocery a 
while.  Then he was a banker at Breckenridge and at Maysville.  He got the 
Hamilton post office under McKinley.  In the middle of his second term, he 
died and Mrs. Florence Low was appointed in his place.
     The oldest son M.A. Low, eventually moved to Topeka in his railroad 
office work.  He had two children.
     "Old Lady Low," mother of the above children, was quite a firm believer 
in Spiritualism and believed that her dead came back to share in her life.
     The Low family began burying their dead in the old Rohrbaugh cemetery, 
after a siege of typhoid fever that took two of the children in a few days in 
the early 70s.  The family continued to use the same lot for a long time.  
Within the last 20 years, however, thru the work of Mrs. Sarah Low Hughes, the 
bodies of all the Lows except an infant were removed to the large Low lot in 
the Highland cemetery.
     Interview  1934.


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