John Giesey Lowry and Mary W. Elder

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Husband John Giesey Lowry ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Aug 1832 - Berlin, Somerset Co, PA 2
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           Died: 7 Apr 1906 - Beaver Falls, Beaver Co, PA 2
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         Father: Jacob Lowry (      -      ) 2
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 29 Jun 1865 3

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Wife Mary W. Elder ^{1 3}

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           Born: 2 May 1841 - near Ligonier, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Father: Joseph Elder (      -      ) 3 4
         Mother: Eliza Penrose (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Josephine Lowry ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: when five years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Mary Edna Lowry ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: when a few months old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Howard Lowry ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: when a few months old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 M John Rush Lowry ³

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           Born: 
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           Died: when a few months old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - John Giesey Lowry

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He spent his childhood on his father's farm near Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and there grew up to young manhood. He then went to Ligonier and apprenticed himself to his brother-in-law, Samuel Slater, a carpenter, and under him learned that trade. The Civil War breaking out at this time, Mr. Lowry enlisted in Company K, Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served for three years, during which time he took part in a number of the most fiercely contested engagements of the war, among them Gettysburg. In the battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, he was severely wounded by a bullet which narrowly missed cutting the femoral vein in his thigh. At the battle of Fredericksburg, his hearing was permanently affected by the noise of the cannonading, an affliction which grew with his years, until toward the latter end of his life he became totally deaf. His last year of service was with the signal service corps, after which he returned to Ligonier. Here he was married and then removed with his wife to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a contracting carpenter for three years. This was at a time when a great tide of migration was setting westward and a wonderful development taking place in parts of the western states. Mr. Lowry joined the movement west, and settled in Emporia, Kansas, remaining for about a year. The boom, however, had come and gone in that section and there was but little demand for his trade, so he returned east to Pennsylvania, this time taking up his abode in Wilkinsburg, where he remained for eight years, following his occupation as carpenter. He made one more venture in the west, this time to Whiteside County, Illinois, where he farmed for a year, finally returning to Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, in which place he made his home until the time of his death. In Beaver Falls he became a contracting carpenter, and did a large and lucrative business. In 1883, three years after his arrival there, he built a fine house for himself at No. 1514 Eighth avenue. Mr. Lowry was a staunch Republican in politics, and active in public affairs, serving for a time on the Beaver County jury commission. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Union Veteran Legion.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary W. Elder

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After the death of her husband she continued to reside at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in the summer, but spent her winters in Florida. She was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a member of the Daughters of the Revolution in virtue of her ancestor, Colonel Robert Elder's participation in the Revolutionary War.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 219.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 265.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 266.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 218.