Allegheny County PA Archives Biographies.....LOWRY Jr., James April 17, 1859 - October 17, 1937
  
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  Author: Biographical Review
  
  The Hon. James Lowry was born in 1820 in the north of Ireland, to which place 
  his parents had emigrated from Scotland. Still a child when he arrived in this 
  country, he was educated in Pittsburgh. After leaving school he went into the 
  foundry business. Later on he was in the furniture business, where the old 
  grain elevator at Union Depot stood, util it was destroyed in the railroad 
  riots. After selling out on that, he was in the Lower River coal trade, owning 
  boats, on which he sent his coal trade South, until after the war, when he 
  retired. He has been in politics for many years, and was at Lafayette Hall 
  when the Republican Party was organized, heartily indorsing (sic) it. For one 
  term he was Coroner in this county. Subsequently he was elected Mayor of the 
  city, which office he held during the exciting times of 1864 and 1865. After 
  that he was Collector of the Port by the appointment of President Johnson. 
  Upon leaving that office he did not enter politics again. In the Masonic 
  fraternity he had advanced to the commandery of the Knights Templar. By his 
  wife, Eliza, who came to this country with her parents, he became the father 
  of eleven children. Eight of those are living, namely: Eliza, who married, and 
  resides in St. Louis; Mayne, now Mrs. Frank Mahon; William, of this city; Eva, 
  the wife of Wuilliam Scott; Albert H., of whom there is no special record; 
  Kate, the wife of Charles Dalgleish; Harvey A, and Minnie, the wife of Charles 
  Lowry of this city.
  
  Additional Comments:
  The above is from the "Biographical Review" Vol XXIV pg 100-103 "containing 
  Life sketches of Leading Citizens of Pittsburgh & the vicinity" 
  Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Co. 1897. 
  gr920 B4887 Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania Room
  He was Mayor from 1864-1866
  
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