BIOGRAPHIES:  John LOWRY, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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John Lowry (deceased) was born in Milford, Del., August 16, 1818, and
died at Pepin, June 17, 1884.  His parents were James and Mary (Adams)
Lowry.  When he was about fifteen years old the family removed to
Niles, Mich., where his parents died a few years later.  At twenty-one
years of age he began to learn the trade of a cabinet-maker, which
occupation he followed nearly all the balance of his life.  He was
married August 16, 1840, to Mary A. Coverdail, by whom he had one
child, Mary J., born December 16, 1842.  Mrs. Lowry died December 28,
1842.  The following year he married Miss Mary A. Mitton, a lady of
French descent, born at Frederica, Del., April 14, 1825.  They had six
children:  Isabella (Mrs. L. Richards, who, in September, 1891, married
Mr. G. B. Remick), James T. (now deceased), Andrew, Leonard, Ella L.
(Mrs. J. Barry) and Etta Dell, who died October 28, 1877.  In the loss
of their daughter, Etta Dell, Mr. and Mrs. Lowry had the sympathy of
the whole community.  She was especially missed by the I. O. G. T.
lodge, of which she was an active member.

In 1853 Mr. Lowry removed to Frontenac, Minn., and the following year
to Pepin, where he built a house, in which his widow still resides.  In
1868 he built a furniture factory on Porcupine creek, and two years
later he started a cabinet shop in Pepin.  He engaged in business at
Rock Rapids, Iowa, in 1872.  In 1875, in company with others, he bought
and laid out the site of Pipe Stone city, Minn.  Mr. Lowry has been a
member of the Methodist church from the age of eighteen years.  He also
belonged to the Masonic order.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 703.


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