Biographical Sketch of Eugene S. Low, De Kalb County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888,
				Goodspeed Publishing Company

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Eugene S. Low, a citizen of Maysville and cashier of the De Kalb County
Bank, was born in Guilford, ME., in 1845.  He is the second of six
children born to F. P. and Mary J. (Robinson) Low.  The father was born
in Gilford, ME., in 1812, and was the son of Robert Low, also a native
of Maine, being the first settler of Piscataquis County of that State.
F. P., the father, was a farmer, and immigrated to Boone County, IL.,
in 1846, being one of the pioneers of that county.  During his resi-
dence in Boone County he held various official positions, among which
were those of collector, treasurer, member of board of supervisors and
justice of the peace, holding the last two for a period of about
twenty years.  He removed to Hamilton, Caldwell County, MO., in 1867,
where he now resides, living a retired life.  The mother was born in
Maine in 1818, and is the daughter of James Robinson, a sea captain,
who was a descendant of the first family and original owners of Cape
Elizabeth.  Eugene S. was born in Guilford, ME., and received a liberal
education in the public schools.  In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in
Company I, Ninth Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, but was rejected on
account of youth.  In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in Company B, of
Sixty-ninth Illinois Infantry, from which he was discharged the ensuing
fall.  During the winter, spring and summer of 1863 he served in the 
quartermaster's department, and in the following December again enlist-
ed in Company I, Ninth Regiment of Cavalry, and served until the close
of the war.  He was mustered out at Springfield, IL., in the fall of
1865, and was not yet twenty years of age.  At the close of the war he
went to Colorado and the western Territories, where he remained for 
nine years.  He went to Hamilton, MO., in the fall of 1875, and taught
school during the winter of 1875-76 in Jefferson County, KS.  In the
following spring, however, he returned to Hamilton, and for the next
two years published the Hamilton News.  He next engaged in the grain
business at Hamilton, and in the fall of 1880 connected himself with
the commission house of Slaybank & Co., of St. Louis, and for which he
traveled two years as buyer.  In March, 1882, he engaged in the mer-
cantile business in Hamilton, but closed out in 1883, and spent one
summer in traveling for his health.  In the fall of 1883 he organized
the Breckenridge (MO) Savings Bank, of which he was cashier for more
than two years.  In the spring of 1885 he came to Maysville, reorgan-
ized the De Kalb County Bank, and increased its capital.  In March, 
1877, he was united in marriage with Florence M. Moore, who was born
in Willington, Conn., in 1853.  She is the daughter of C. B. and
Ethalina Moore.  They have one daughter, Sarah, born in February, 1878.
He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the A.O.U.W.

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