BIO:  John E. Lowe, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 178

JOHN E. LOWE, a farmer in Shrewsbury Township, was born on the farm now owned by him, March 26, 
1846.  His parents, Isaac and Elizabeth (Stabler) Lowe, were natives of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, and of English and German descent respectively.  They had six children, of whom John 
E. was the youngest son.  He was brought up on the farm, and learned the carpenter trade before 
he was twenty-one years of age.  His education he received at the public schools.  In 1875 he 
began the butchering trade and followed it about five years, and then returned to farming, 
which he has since followed.  He was married in 1872, at York, to Elizabeth Singer, daughter of 
Charles Singer, and a native of Germany.  They had five children, one of whom died when but 
three years of age.  The living are Willie H., Adam M., Annie E. and Charles.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Lowe are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, although Mrs. Lowe was brought up in the 
Lutheran Church.  He is a member and Master of the P. of H. No. 446, of New Freedom.  Jacob 
Lowe, a brother of John E., was a soldier in the United States army and served about two years.  
The father died in 1875, aged seventy-two years, but the mother is still living, and about 
seventy-two years of age.  Mr. Lowe was one of the organizers of the New Freedom Building 
Association; and is director in the same.