BIO: William L. LOWRIE, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, pages 38-39. 
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  WILLIAM L. LOWRIE, M.D., is regarded as one of the leading physicians of 
Tyrone.  A veteran of the medical profession, who has given years of service 
to the people of Tyrone, both as a doctor and as a public official, Dr. 
Lowrie is a foremost citizen of the borough.  He is active in every 
conceivable affair of importance, holds a prominent place in the medical 
societies of the county and State, and is a Fellow in the American Medical 
Association.  He is known as a profoundly enthusiastic lay agitator in 
behalf of education, for clean politics and for increased public welfare, 
and he is honored for his principles and his activities.
  Dr. William L. Lowrie was born in Warriors Mark, Huntingdon County, the 
son of Jonathan R. Lowrie, a native a Butler, Butler County, who was 
prominent lawyer throughout a long and useful life, and Mary A. (Lyon) 
Lowrie, a native of Huntingdon County, both of whom are deceased.  In the 
schools of Birmingham, not far from his native borough, in Huntingdon 
County, the future doctor and public official received his early education.  
Subsequently, he took his medical course in the University of Pennsylvania 
and received his Doctor of Medicine in 1883.  Feeling that the best 
prospects of success for the young, inexperienced physician were to be found 
in the vicinity of his birthplace, where numerous friends and acquaintances 
would assist in the climb, Dr. Lowrie returned to Huntingdon County 
following his graduation from the Medical School of the university and 
established himself in practice in Mapleton.  Here he remained four years, 
until 1887, and then moved to Tyrone, where for nearly four decades he has 
be in continuous practice, with eminent success increasing through the 
years.  He has his offices at No. 900 Washington Avenue.  From the beginning 
of his residence and practice in Tyrone, Dr. Lowrie has been an influential 
factor in its affairs.  Soon recognized as an able physician, and as an 
interested student of public affairs, he was elected a school director of 
Tyrone, an office he held for one term.  Subsequently, he served eight years 
on the Borough Council, a tenure that did more than increase his reputation 
and prestige.  He is now a member of the consulting staff of the Huntingdon 
Memorial Hospital, and Mercy Hospital, Altoona.
  Dr. Lowrie is a member of the Blair County Medical Association, the 
American Medical Society, the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, 
and Fellow of the American Medical Association.  He also belongs to and is 
prominently active in Tyrone Lodge, No. 494, and the Free and Accepted 
Masons, of which lodge he is a Past Master; the York Rite bodies in total, 
including the Knights Templar, and to the Tyrone Club.  He and his family 
attend the First Presbyterian Church of Tyrone.
  Dr. Lowrie married, in 1887, Bertha Finney, a native of this State.  There 
are three children of this union:  1, Mary L., a missionary in China; 2, 
Sarah F., the wife of Robert A. Love, of Brooklyn, New York; 3, Dr. William 
L., Jr., now a successful practicing physician in Detroit, Michigan.