Hugh Lowe Biography


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HUGH LOWE, grain buyer for the Spencer Grain Company, in the village of 
Pukwana, Brule county, South Dakota, is a native of Canada, and was 
born September 29, 1849. Of a family of nine children he was the fourth 
in order of birth. 

Our subject's father, James Lowe, was of English descent, and for 
twenty years of his life was a civil engineer, working on the 
geological survey of Canada, under Sir William Logan. The mother of our 
subject, Ellen (McGill) Lowe, is of Irish descent. She is still living. 

Hugh Lowe was trained in the trade of carriage maker, and worked in 
Canada until about twenty-four years of age, when he located in 
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. In 1875 he visited the Pacific coast states 
and after a short stay in California, Oregon and Washington, he 
returned to Illinois, and from there went to Missouri, in quest of a 
favorable location, but did not find the climate suitable to him and he 
established himself in Minnesota. In 1882 he went to Pukwana, South 
Dakota, and found a town consisting of but a few shanties. He began 
working as a carpenter, but in the fall of 1883, he turned his 
attention to the buying of grain for A. Darrow, afterward entering the 
employ of D. R. Putnam. He has been with his present employers three 
years and is a very proficient judge of values. In the early days he 
took government land and has a fine stock farm within two miles of 
Pukwana. The land is cut by American creek, a living stream, fed by 
artesian wells, and the farm is admirably adapted to stock raising. Mr. 
Lowe also owns property in the village of Pukwana. In 1879 our subject 
married Miss Marion Darrow, daughter of A. and Sarah Darrow. Mrs. 
Lowe's father was the owner of the original town site. Our subject and 
his wife have been the parents of two children, Agnes F. and Dette. 

Mr. Lowe has been chosen to fill many offices in his community, and is 
at present serving as county commissioner. In political views he is a 
Democrat, favors high license, and opposes equal suffrage. He worships 
at the Catholic church. The interests of Pukwana are enjoying a goodly 
share of thrift and to the subject of this. sketch is due the credit of 
much of the advance in the village. As a citizen of Brule county, he 
commands the respect of all.