Charles C. Lowe Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 608-609

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CHARLES C. LOWE, editor of the Populist organ of Salem, McCook county, 
though not an old settler of this county, is one of her enterprising 
and solid business men. He publishes the "Pioneer Register," a bright, 
newsy sheet and a stanch advocate of the principles of the Populist 
party. This paper was established in 1878, and consequently is now in 
its twenty-first volume. It is in truth the register of the pioneers, 
and with them has suffered the hardships of pioneer life. It passed 
from hand to hand, and for years seemed to be searching for the proper 
owner. Finally in 1895, our subject became its possessor. The office 
has now been fitted up with new furniture, including a two-horse-power 
electrical gasoline engine, and is prepared for all kinds of job 
printing. 

Mr. Lowe was born in Manchester, Iowa, July 16, 1870, the second in the 
order of birth of a family of four children born to J. R. and Amelia 
(Stimson) Lowe. In 1872 the family moved to Vermillion, South Dakota, 
and from there to Yankton, and about the year 1875 they moved to Brule 
City, on the Missouri river. In the following year the father located a 
ranch at Bijou Hills, South Dakota. At this time the mother was the 
only American woman for one hundred miles, and our subject grew up with 
the Sioux children as his playfellows. Here, also, the father began to 
edit a small sheet, and in this way our subject secured the rudiments 
of his education as an editor. This work he continued at Huron and 
Mitchell, took a short course at the State University, and then for two 
years worked in the office of the "Alexandria Journal." He next 
purchased a half interest in the "Mitchell Gazette," and in 1895, as 
has been heretofore stated, he moved to Salem and became sole 
proprietor of the "Register" office. Politically he is a Populist, as 
evidenced by the policy of his newspaper, and also voices temperance 
and equal suffrage. Socially he is identified with the Modern Woodmen 
of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of Pythias, A. 
F. & A. M., and also the K. O. T. M. fraternity. 

Mr. Lowe was married in 1893, to Miss Fulvia Palmer, of Mitchell, South 
Dakota, and two children now bless their home, Lucile and Leta.