BIOGRAPHIES: Arthur LOWELL, Sumner Township, Barron County, WI

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Arthur Lowell, an industrious farmer of section 19, Sumner Township, was
born at Cook's Valley, Chippewa County, Nov. 2, 1889, the son of Nelson and
Helen Eva (Wood) Lowell, who brought him to Sumner Township when he was a
baby. He was reared and educated here. At the age of fifteen he went to
Birchwood, on the boundary line between Sawyer and Washburn counties. Three
years later he came back and remained on the home farm until he was
twenty-one. Then he married and went back to Birchwood. There he worked in
the mills and for a time had charge of the barns which housed the lumber
teams. Subsequently for some years he farmed on rented places near Canton,
and in between, owned 40 acres in section 20. In 1917 he bought his present
place of 100 acres in section 19. Here he has made general improvements and
here he has since carried on mixed farming and dairying. He believes
thoroughly in co-operative effort among farmers, and holds stock in the
Farmers Telephone Co. and the Farmers Threshing Machine Co., all of Canton.
Mr. Lowell was married Aug. 16, 1911, in Rusk County, Wis., to Mabel Apker,
born in Rusk County, this state, daughter of Tunis H. and Harriet Apker,
natives of Wisconsin. This union has been blessed with three children,
Ruth, Clifford and Harvey.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 809-810.