Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. IV, Part 61

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 710


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John Lowe served the city of Fitchburg as coun- cilman from January 1, 1876. to January 1, 1877. He is a member of the Calvinistic Congregational Church, which he joined early in life. Mr. Lowe is honored by his fellow citizens in Fitchburg as a self-made man, who built up a large business. 1Ie


is a man of high principles and unblemished char- acter. He has the unique honor also of being the head of the largest and taken altogether probably the most successful and distinguished family ever raised in the city of Fitchburg. As a prominent citizen said of him: "He has seventeen children grown and not a single black sheep in the lot."


John Lowe married, August II, 1846, Sarah Mead, of Boxboro, Massachusetts. She was born August 22, 1825, and died December 14, 1865. He married (second), April 3, 1866, in West Fitchburg, Mary Adams (Russell) Lowe, widow of his brother, George Lowe. She was born July 20, 1840. The children of these two marriages number seventeen, all living. In 1901 some interesting statistics were prepared for the genealogy by the committee of the family : Orin M. Lowe, Waldo H. Lowe and Ellen M. Merriam. At that time fourteen of the children were married, three single, making thirty-three brothers and sisters. The thirteen families have, all told, thirty-five children. The oldest one of these is married and has four children, making with their great-great-aunt, Mrs. John Wood, five generations, a total of seventy-three members of the family cir- cle. In January, 1898, the total height of the Lowe family was three hundred and twenty-nine feet, six and one-fourth inches. The total weight was 8,059.5 pounds and the total age 1,685 years, 9 months. There have been a number of marriages and births since. There has doubtless been a big percentage of gain in height and avoirdupois. By the time this work reaches the public there will be still further additions by birth and marriages to this very remarkable family. Needless to say the entire family circle supports Roosevelt and his doctrines. All of the family attend the Congregational Church. None are users of tobacco or liquor for a beverage. In the family are four farmers, three paper manu- facturers, two cotton manufacturers, two wholesale provision dealers, one street railroad magnate, one bank clerk, one inventor, one machinist and one minister. They transacted in 1901 about $3,000,000 worth of business ; employed 1,500 hands and in all the industries with which they are connected wages amounting to $500,000 were paid. The family has an annual gathering on the Fourth of July and has a regular business organization with constitution and officers.


The children of John and Sarah ( Mead) Lowe were: Ellen Maria, born at Fitchburg. April 30, 1847; Edna Mary, born at Fitchburg, May 3, 1848; Waldo Hawes, born at Fitchburg, May 8, 1849; Ira Adelbert, born at Fitchburg, October 13, 1850; Albert Nathaniel, born at Rindge, New Hampshire, March 12, 1852; Arthur Houghton, born at Rindge, New Hampshire, August 20, 1853: Orin Messinger, born at Fitchburg, April 18, 1855; Lewis Mead, born at Fitchburg, March II, 1857; Herbert G., born at Fitchburg, March 27. 1859; }da Louisa, born at Fitchburg, April 26, 1861 ; Frank E., born at Fitch- burg, January 15. 1864; George Russell, born at Fitchburg, July 11, 1865. The children of Jobn and Mary Adams ( Russell) Lowe, all born in Fitchburg, are: David, born June 23. 1867: Harriet Lydia, born April 15, 1870; Samuel Hawes, born October 22. 1873; John Adams, born August 27, 1881; Marian Abbie, born November 30, 1883.


(VH1) Seth Lyman Lowe, son of David Lowe (7), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 22, 1835. He married, February 28, 1857, Susan Re-


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becca Vose, born June 15, 1836, sister of Amelia Vose, who married David S. Lowe, and daughter of ex-Mayor William H. Vose.


Seth L. Lowe attended the old district school at Pearl Hill and later at the academy at Rindge, New Hampshire. He was associated with his brother John for a time at Rindge. At the age of twenty-one he went to Whittaker, Michigan, where he remained two years, and then returned to Fitch- burg to marry. He returned with his bride and bought a farm in Michigan. His buildings were burned after he had worked for a couple of years on his farm, and finding life in a shanty uncongenial he returned to Fitchburg, in September, 1864, and went to live in the old homestead, where he is still living with his children and grandchildren. Since then he has carried on the farin which is one of the most profitable in that section. In addition to his farm Mr. Lowe has dealt extensively in lumber. He is a member of the Calvinistic Congregational Church.


The children of Seth L. and Susan Rebecca (Vose) Lowe were: Frederic Hervey, born Jan- uary 11, 1860, in Whittaker, Michigan, married Flor- ence Lovell, who was born August 26, 1856, at North Adams; Susan Amelia, born at Whittaker, Michi- gan, June 14, 1862, married, September 17, 1900, Percival R. Bowers; Eugene Francis, of whom later; Clara Luella, born at Fitchburg, October 7, 1867; Annie Louisa, born at Fitchburg, November 29, 1871, died September 20, 1874.


(IX) Eugene Francis Lowe, third child of Seth Lyman Lowe (8), was born at Fitchburg, Massachu- setts.July 11, 1864. He is a successful market gardener. He married Myrta Maynard, June 13, 1888. She was born January 13, 1866, at Rockford, Illinois. was married at Fitchburg, and died February 15, 1899. They went to live with his father in the spacious old homestead on Pearl hill. He married (second), June 1. 1900, Milley Willis, born at Templeton, Massachusetts, January 28, 1872, daughter of Aaron Sawyer Willis, born December 10, 1822, descendant of Thomas Sawyer and his wife, Mary Prescott. (See sketch of the Sawyer family. Also Prescott family.) Her mother was Louise E. Blodgett, born May 7, 1833, died May 19, 1898. He is a member of the Calvinistic Congregational Church. He is a Republican. The children of Eugene F. and Myrta ( Maynard) Lowe, are: Harold Maynard, born in Fitchburg, October 11, 1889; Percival Eugene, Sep- tember 15, 1891.


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(1X) Ellen Maria Lowe, daughter of Jolin Lowe (8), was born in the old homestead an Pearl hill, Fitchburg, April 30, 1847. She attended school at Rindge, New Hampshire, and Fitchburg, entering the Fitchburg high school at the head of a class of one hundred. At the age of eighteen she began to teach school at Lunenburg. At the time her mother died she was called upon to nurse her father, mother and five brothers, who had typhoid fever at the same time. She married, July 16, 1868, Lyman Wheeler Merriam, who was born March 31, 1844. in Fitch- burg. He is a professional inventor, having sixteen patents and having constructed many useful ma- chines. He has been engaged in the manufacture of milk bottle caps, using machines invented by him. The name of the firm is Merriam Manufact- uring Co., and George O. Allen is his partner.


The children of Lyman Wheeler and Ellen (Lowe) Merriam are: Sarah Abbie, born in Fitch- burg, August 9. 1869, married J. S. Harrington, 1890,


in Lunenburg; children are: Lewis, 1892, Ruth L., 1893, Carl R., 1896, Harold L., 1898; Frederic Lowe, born in Fitchburg, August 2, 1870, died in Worces- ter, April 23, 1872; Louisa Adeline, born in Holden, August 21, 1872, died September 22, 1800, in Fitch- burg; Alice Edna, born in Fitchburg, November 25, 1874, belonged to the class of 1895 in Fitchburg high school, married, April, 1904, Charles Nutting, of Leominster, a farmer, one child, John L., born 1905; John Lowe, born in Jaffray, New Hampshire, July 9, 1876, died April 13, 1898; entered class of 1895 in Fitchburg high school; joined the Rollstone Church in 1890; Edith Augusta, born in Jaffray, New Hampshire, March 5, 1878, entered class of 1890 in Fitchburg high school; Lizzie Maria, born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, September 27, 1880, graduated from the Fitchburg high school in 1898; Clifton Harris, born in Winchendon, Massachusetts. December 30, 1883, entered the Fitchburg high school in class of 1902; Henry Mead, born in Fitchburg, September 11, 1885, died August 5, 1887.


(1X) Edna Mary Lowe, daughter of John Lowe (8), was born May 3, 1848, in Fitchburg. She was graduated from the Fitchburg high school in 1867 in a class of four girls, the second class to receive diplomas, Franklin G. Fessenden, of Greenfield, be- ing the sole graduate of 1866, a unique distinction. She taught school in Fitchburg, West Acton, Massa- chusetts, Rochester, New Hampshire, and Key West, Florida. She married James Edward Putnam, Feb- ruary 22, 1883. He was born in Fitchburg, July 22, 1845, son of James P. and Susan Abigail ( Up- ton) Putnam. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1864 and returned across the continent in 1866. He built six hundred miles of the Union Pacific Railroad. He was overseer of the county jail at Fitchburg one year in 1868-9, and turnkey there until October, 1877. He was alderman from ward four in 1899. He lives at the old Putnam homestead and has one of the finest farms in the county. The children of James E. and Edna M. ( Lowe) Putnam are: Helen Edna, born in Fitchburg, August 8, 1885, entered Fitchburg high school, class of 1902, Lincoln College, 1906.


Mr. Putnam's first wife was Ellen Brown, whom he married in 1870; she died in 1881. They had one son, Frank, born 1873, died 1887.


(IX) Waldo Hawes Lowe, son of John Lowe (8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, May 8, 1849. He attended the Fitchburg public schools and entered the high school in 1862. After three years there he took a course in Bryant & Stratton's Business College, Boston. He worked at home for his father until March, 1870, when he went into partnership with A. & O. Mead & Co. in the meat business, in Brighton and Boston. In November, 1870, the project having been given up in Brighton, he started a market in the store under the Univer- salist Church, Fitchburg, which he carried on with good success until June, 1872, when, with his brother, Ira, he bought his father's business. The firm nanle was \V. H. & 1. A. Lowe & Co.


In August. 1879, he went to work for G. F. Swift & Co., Chicago, Illinois, and in the following July was located at Milwaukee, representing the Swift Company, but in a short time was made outside foreman at Chicago. He worked here days, nights and Sundays for four years. He passed through the big strike of 1880, working every day, also the switchmen's strike in 1882. when Swift's house was the only stock-yard to work all through the strike,


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and he hardly left the slaughter house day or night for three weeks.


In June, 1883, he moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where his borther Ira had preceded him the year be- fore. Here with others he started and successfully conducted the Wyoming Meat Company. He suf- fered with the others in 1886 when the failure of the cattle industry ruined nearly every industry in that section of the country. He removed to Omaha, Nebraska, in May, 1887, and worked there for Ham- mond & Co., for two years, when he went into the retail meat business with Adam Snyder for partner. After a short time he left to take a position with Cudahy & Co. In June, 1891, he decided to return east to look for a business opening at Beverly, Mass- achusetts, but finally decided to enter a new line of business. He learned to make paper and after a short time became superintendent of the Falulah Pa- per Co. at Fitchburg, where he has since remained. He is a member of the Congregational Church.


He married, February 13, 1872, Mary Louisa Whitcomb, of Fitchburg. She was born March 27, 1851, in Marlboro, New Hampshire, and is the daughter of Albert S. and Martha Abigail ( Willis) Whitcomb. Their children are: Bessie Edna, born November 25, 1872, died August 3, 1873; Bertie, born May 7, 1875, died June 23, 1875; Mattie Louisa, born July 31, 1876, graduated from Fitchburg high school, 1895; Florence Josephine, born April 22, 1878, in Fitchburg, graduated from Fitchburg high school in 1896; State Normal school in 1898 and from the four-year course in 1900; taught school in Mont- clair, New Jersey; Gertrude Whitcomb, born May 16, 1880, in Keene, New Hampshire, graduated from the Fitchburg high school in 1898; policy clerk and stenographer for the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Fitchburg; married, June 7, 1904, Harry Rogers, of Fitchburg, and they have one child, Roland Lowe, born August 17, 1905; Albert Waldo, born June II, 1882, in Chicago, died February 25, 1885, in Chicago ; Lorena May, born October 17, 1884, in Cheyenne, Wyoming; graduate of Fitchburg high school, 1902, and Fitchburg Normal school, 1904-05; Willis Mead, born August 10, 1896, in South Fitchburg, died Au- gust 31, 1897.


(IX) Ira Adelbert Lowe, son of John Lowe (8), was born October 13, 1850, in Fitchburg, Mass- achusetts. He attended the public schools and for one year Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Boston. He was for a time with his brothers in the wholesale provision business in Fitchburg, then went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and was connected with the Snow & Lowe Cattle Companies and Wyom- ing Meat Co. as president. About 1887 he removed to Chicago, and in 1888 returned to Massachusetts. He was in Boston two years in business, then re- moved to Greenfield, where he has since been very sucessful in raising sheep. He married Annie Marie Stone, June 19, 1884, at Charlestown, Massachu- setts. She was born February 20, 1887, daughter of Jasper and Mary Patten (Swett) Stone. She is a member of the Second Advent Church. He joined the Calvinistic Congregational Church in 1866. They have one child: Beatrice, born November 29, 1888, in Charlestown, Massachusetts.


(IX) Albert Nathaniel Lowe, son of John Lowe (S), was born in Rindge, New Hampshire, March 12, 1852. He received a common school education with six months in the Bryant & Stratton Commer- cial College, Boston. He was in the wholesale meat and provision business with his brothers until 1886,


and then began the manufacture of paper in South Fitchburg under the name of Falulah Paper Com- pany. He began in a small building in a small way, but by patience and perseverance has built up to its present capacity the mills which produce twenty-five to thirty tons of paper daily.


He has served the city as councilman in 1879. He has been director of the Safety Fund National Bank since February, 1897. He is a member and officer of the Rollstone Congregational Church.


He married Emma Rebecca Palmer, October 28, 1879, at Fitchburg. She was born December 17, 1854, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Charlotte ( Fiske) Pal- mer. The annual reunion of the Lowe Family Cir- cle has been held for many years in Dr. Palmer's Grove at Notown. She graduated at the Fitchburg high school in 1873. She is a member of the Cal- vinistic Congregational Church. Their children are : 1. Erving Fiske, born May 8, 1881, graduate of Fitchburg high school, 1899; Harvard Dental School, 1902, practicing; married, June 1, 1904, Maude Lowell, of Allston, Boston, Massachusetts. 2. Ern- est Palmer, born May 8, 1881, graduate of high school, 1899, left Amherst College after one year to enter the paper mill and learn the business; mar- ried, September 6, 1905, Mary Olmstead, of Fitch- burg. 3. Joseph Albert, born January 20, 1883, graduate of high school, 1900, and Amherst College, 1904. 4. Gny Russell, born April 17, 1888, grad- uate of high school, 1902. 5. Ralph Putnam, born February 4, 1887, graduate of high school, 1903. 6. Charlotte Emma, born January 10, 1891.


(IX) Arthur Houghton Lowe, son of John Lowe (8), was born in Rindge, New Hampshire, August 20, 1853. He was educated in the Fitchburg public schools. He was associated with his brothers in the meat business for a few years. In 1879 he went into partnership with his father-in-law, John Parkhill, and Thoma. R. B. Dole, to manufacture cotton goods. The buildings long owned and oper- ated as a chair factory by Hon. Alonzo Davis was purchased. The firm began operations in February, 1880, with thirty looms weaving colored cotton goods. The business was incorporated in ISSt with a capital of $100,000. Since then the business has grown wonderfully. It is by far the largest cotton manu- facturing establishment in the city. In 1882 an ad- dition 35×135 feet, two stories high, was built. In 1883 a third story was added. In the next two years another building 55x150 feet, three stories high, and a new engine house were built. In 1887 a new dye house 55×140 feet, two stories high, was built and the plant of the Fitchburg Woolen Mill Company purchased. The company now operates about 3,000 looms and employs 1,200 hands, producing in 1905 about twenty million yards of cloth. Mr. Lowe is manager and treasurer. Mr. Parkhill was president from the incorporation.


Mr. Lowe organized the Cleghorn cotton mill in Fitchburg in 1885 with a capital of $100,000. This inill was absorbed by the Parkhill Company in 1889, and the capital of the Parkhill Manufacturing Co. made $300,000. Mr. Lowe was the treasurer. The mill employed 200 hands. The Parkhill mills are now the third largest of their kind in the country. The great success of this enterprise is to a large ex- tent the cause of the development and growth of Fitchburg in the past twenty-five years. Mr. Lowe is also interested in the Grant Yarn Mills. He was instrumental in securing the location in Fitchburg of the car shops of the Fitchburg Railroad, the Orswell


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Mills, the Mitchell Manufacturing Co., and other manufacturing industries. In 1900 Mr. Lowe, with Mr. J. Harper Poor and Mr. Charles L. Poor, of New York, and Mr. George P. Grant, of Fitchburg, organized the Lowe Manufacturing Co. of Hunts- ville, Alabama. This company is now running 26,- 000 spindles and 240 looms on fine yarns and col- ored cotton goods, the finest made in the South. In 1903 he became a partner in the firm of J. Harper Poor & Co., dry goods commission merchants in New York.


He is a director also of the Fitchburg National Bank and the Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company; he is also a director in the Factory Mu- tual Fire Insurance Companies of Boston. He is a trustee of the Baldwinville Hospital Cottages for Children, Cushing Academy of Ashburnham, Mur- dock School Fund at Winchendon, and of the Fitch- burg Savings Bank. Mr. Lowe has been president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers Associa- tion and of the American Cotton Manufacturing Association of the South. He is a member of the Park Club, and was a member of the Fitchburg Athletic Club; he is also a member of the Mer- chants' Club in New York City. He is an active mem- ber of the Calvanistic Congregational Church. Mr. Lowe has been president of the Fitchburg Board of Trade, and representative to many trade conven- tions.


Mr. Lowe has been active in the Republican party and in municipal affairs. He was alderman in 1888 and mayor in 1893. He declined a re-election on account of the pressure of private business. Three school houses and two fire stations were erected under his administration as mayor. One of the grade crossings was eliminated and various other public works projected. He was a persistent worker for the establishment of the State Normal school in Fitchburg. He was a member of the governor's council from the Worcester county district for 1903 and 1904, serving with Governor John L. Bates. He is a member of the Massachusetts Republican Club and of the Home Market Club. He is a steadfast Republican and a firm believer in the tariff policy of the party. He was the delegate from his congres- sional district to tlie Republican national convention in Philadelphia in 1900.


He married, December 11, 1878, at North Adams, Massachusetts, Annie Elizabeth Parkhill. She was born February 15, 1857, in Belvidere, Illinois, daugli- ter of John and Margaret ( Cleghorn) Parkhill. She joined the church at the age of fifteen. She was a graduate of Westfield State Normal school in 1877. Their children are: Russell Bryant, born February 4, 1880, graduate of the Fitchburg high school, in 1898, and of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1902; Annie Margaret, born November 21, 1885, graduate of Fitchburg high school in 1902, and of Smith College in 1906; Rachel Parkhill, born May 12, 1889, educated at Fitchburg high school and Briarcliff school on the Hudson.


(IX) Orin Messinger Lowe, son of John Lowe (8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, April IS, IS55. He was educated in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he went to California in the clipper ship "Mary L. Stone" around the cape. A year later he returned and went to work for his brothers in the meat business. In 1880 he went to Chicago to work for G. F. Swift, but later in the year returned to Fitchburg and became associated with Lowe Bros. & Co. As the other brothers have


gradually left the company he has become the head of the concern. lle is a Republican and has served in many city and state conventions. He was a coun- cilman of Fitchburg in 1889 and an alderman in 1900 and 1906, and president of the board the latter year. He belongs to the Odd Fellows order.


Ile married Florence Allisia Webber, October 30, 1879, at Lunenburg, Massachusetts. She was born in Fitchburg, May 19, 1850, the daughter of George H. and Sarah Jane (Smith) Webber. She is gifted with musical talents. The children of Orin Mes- singer and Florence Allisia ( Webber) Lowe are: Grace Albro, born September 18, 1880, graduate of Fitchburg high school in 1899 and of Mt. Holyoke College 1903; Irene May, born May 4, 188.4, grad- uate of Fitchburg high school, 1902; Porter Webber, born February 25, 1887; Rodney Messinger, born January 16, 1890.


(IX) Lewis Mead Lowe, son of John Lowe (8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, March II, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg, and worked for his brothers until he was twenty-one, when he went to Whittaker, Michigan, and worked for Webster Childs. He returned to work for his brothers and after a time went to Chi- cago for Swift & Co., where he became foreman. He went to Cayenne when his brothers were in busi- ness there, 1884, and was foreman for the Wyoming Meat Company for three years. He owned the first meat cart in Cheyenne and found it profitable until the bad times drove so many people away. He re- turned to his native place again and worked for the old firm, until January 1, 1892, when he sold his in- terest in the firm and bought the farm in Lunenburg, where he has since resided.


He married Lurilla Whipple, in Cheyenne, Wy- oming. She was born May 3, 1865, in Marion, Iowa, daughter of Daniel F. and Irene A. (Boynton) Whipple. She joined the Baptist Church in Chey- enne, 1883. She was educated in the public schools of Marion and Nevada, Iowa, and Cheyenne, Wyom- ing. She kept books for her father until his death, April, 1884. She was typewriter and school teacher until her marriage. Children of Lewis M. and Lurilla (Whipple) Lowe are: I. Lillian Whipple, born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 8, 1887, graduate of the Fitchburg high school, 1904. 2. Lowell Mead, born in Lunenburg, November 30. 1894.


(IX) Herbert G. Lowe, son of John Lowe (S), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, March 27, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and for three months attended the commercial college in Boston. Ile learned the trade of dyer in the mill of the Johnson Manufacturing Company of North Adams, and in 1880 commenced work for the Parkhill Manufacturing Company, where he remained until 1889, when he became one of the owners of the Falulah Paper Company. He served the city as councilman in 1890.


He married Mary Adelaide Vaughn, May 24, 1888. at Delavan, Illinois. She was born in Delavan, April 1, 1860, the daughter of William E. and Susan (Brendorff) Vaughn. She is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music.


(IX) Ida Louise Lowe, daughter of John Lowe (8), was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, April 26, 1861. She attended the public schools, leaving the high school after two years in 1878 to study at the State Normal school at Framingham. Massachu- setts. She taught school at Rindge, New Hampshire, in 18So. She married, December 14, 1880, Ezra


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Jackson Riggs. He was born in Boston, Decem- ber II, 1846. Ile enlisted October 1, 1861, in Com- pany E, Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, and re-enlisted in the field January I, 1864, serving un- til June 30, 1865. He was sergeant of his company when mustered out. He again enlisted April 12, 1867, and served two years. He was wounded in the battle of Cold Harbor. He entered the Andover Theological Seminary in September, 1876, to pre- pare for the ministry and graduated in 1879. He became pastor of the Congregational Church at Rindge, New Hampshire. After four years he re- turned to the seminary for another year of study. He became pastor of the church at East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and has since worked in the west- ern field and at Provincetown, Massachusetts. The children of Rev. Ezra J. and Ida L. (Lowe) Riggs are: Nelson Francis Riggs, born in Rindge, New Hampshire, died there September 18, 1882; Chris- tine Louisa Riggs, born July 6, 1889, in Fitchburg.




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