BIO: Thomas J. LOWELL, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 605 & 606.
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  THOMAS J. LOWELL, justice of the peace and assistant postmaster at Penfield, 
Clearfield county, Pa., one of the leading citizens of Huston township, was born 
at Penfield, April 28, 1880, and is a son of Horace H. and Anna (Zuber) Lowell.
  Horace H. Lowell is postmaster at Penfield, is a veteran of the Civil war and 
is one of the best known and most respected citizens of this section.  He was 
born on his father's farm in Maine and was reared to the age of eighteen years 
there, when he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Co. A, First 
Maine Vol. Cav., as a private and won promotion to the rank of corporal.  He was 
a brave soldier in every position in which he found himself, serving three years 
and enduring thirteen months of imprisonment at Andersonville.  Later he came to 
Williamsport, Pa. and for twenty years was in the woods as cook in lumber camps.  
Later he operated a general store at North Bend, Pa.  In 1873 he came to 
Penfield to make his permanent home, engaging in business as a timber contractor 
and in 1898 was appointed postmaster to succeed L. W. Lucore.  His residence is 
situated on E. Woodward street, Penfield, and he also owns a farm in Huston 
township.  He is a member of the G. A. R. and the Masonic fraternity.  At 
Williamsport, Pa., he married Anna Zuber and they have but one child, Thomas J., 
of this record.
  Thomas J. Lowell attended the public schools and the Ohio Northern University 
at Ada, O., after which he spent four years as clerk and bookkeeper in lumber 
camps in the woods.  After his father was appointed postmaster in 1898 he was 
made assistant and in May, 1909, was elected a justice of the peace.
  Mr. Lowell was married in June, 1904, to Miss Ella Overturf, a daughter of L. 
H. Overturf, of Penfield, and they have two children:  Horace H., who was born 
October 20, 1906; and Kenneth T., who was born February 22, 1908.  Mr. Lowell 
and wife attend the Methodist Episcopal church.  He belongs to the Grange and 
the Knights of the Maccabees at Penfield and is a member of the Blue Lodge F. & 
A. M., at DuBois, and of the Consistory at Williamsport.