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Quarter-centennial history of Lawrence, Massachusetts : with portraits and biographical sketches of ex-mayors, the board of may . Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Wadsworth, H. A.. Quarter-centennial history of Lawrence, Massachusetts : with portraits and
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in 1900, and became President of Harvard College in 1909, serving in that capacity until 1933. One of their daughters, Katharine Lowell, married (1) James Alfred Roosevelt, of the Long Island clan, and (2) T. James Bowlker, a Boston cotton mill owner. Another daughter,
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biographical sketches of ex-mayors, the board of mayor and aldermen for the present year, other leading officials, and a representation of business and professional men. Lawrence, Mass.: H. Reed, Lawrence Eagle Steam Job Print. Office, 1878, page 96.
193:, also in Lowell. And in 1883, he was Director of The Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company. All were positions his father, John Amory, had once held within the same companies. He was also, as of 1878, a director of the 118:. Both Augustus and Katherine were able to trace their ancestry back through the earliest colonial settlers and founders of New England, in the mid-17th century, and even further back to notable English families of the 12th and 13th centuries. 212:. In 1881, Augustus was appointed as the sole Trustee of the Lowell Institute, upon his father's death (Lowell 1899, pp 118–119), a position he would hold for the last 20 years of his life. 27:(January 15, 1830 – June 22, 1900) was a wealthy Massachusetts industrialist, philanthropist, horticulturist, and civic leader. A member of the 194: 425: 430: 415: 400: 420: 129:. The Lowells lost two of their children during infancy but their surviving children went on to great public prominence. Eldest son 114:, class of 1850. On June 1, 1854, he married Katherine Bigelow Lawrence (February 21, 1832 - April 1, 1895), the daughter of Hon. 313: 209: 205: 362: 410: 55: 266: 86: 334: 405: 178: 278: 158:, 20 years younger than her brothers, would become the second celebrated poet in the Lowell family. 226: 122: 198: 151: 142: 121:
Augustus and Katherine Lowell had seven children and thus named their 10-acre (40,000 m),
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wrote several books on the Far East and on the planet Mars, and founded the
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Lowell was amongst the fifth generation in his family to graduate from
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and his second wife Elizabeth Cabot Putnam. His great-grandfather,
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The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899,
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Brahmin
Lowell family
Boston
John Amory Lowell
John Lowell
George Washington
John Adams
Judge John Lowell
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford Hayes

King's Chapel Book of Common Prayer

Harvard College
Abbott Lawrence
Brookline, Massachusetts
Percival Lowell
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff, Arizona
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Lowell Institute
Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
Amy Lowell

Mount Auburn Cemetery
Merrimack Manufacturing Company
textile mill
Lowell, Massachusetts
Boott Cotton Mills

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