John F. Lowry and Martha Belle Thompson

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Husband John F. Lowry ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John F. Lowery 3
           Born: 12 Oct 1850 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Col. Alexander Lowrey (1814-1895) 4
         Mother: Margaret Spear (Abt 1820-1886) 3

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       Marriage: 19 Jul 1877 1

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Wife Martha Belle Thompson ¹

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           Died: 4 Dec 1903 1
         Buried:  - North Cemetery, Butler, Butler Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Gardner C. Lowry ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Aug 1878 2
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         Spouse: Louise M. Sherman (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1909 5

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2 M Dr. Robert S. Lowry ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: Helen Kimball (      -      ) 5

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3 M Dr. Walter Thompson Lowry ^{1 5 6}

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         Spouse: Mary Irene Burns (1887-      ) 5 6

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General Notes: Husband - John F. Lowry

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He completed his education in Witherspoon Institute and for several years after conducted a livery stable and after that he succeeded his father as pro­prietor of the Lowry House, one of the old hostelries of Butler, Pennsylvania. He conducted this public house for several years and after disposing of it ran a livery stable again, for six years, and then became interested in real estate. His time was then occupied in looking after his large interests in this line. He owned a tract in the borough lim­its which he had platted under the name of Hilldale. He was a stockholder in vari­ous prospering enterprises and was always considered a man of much business foresight. Politically, he was a Republican and he served during nine years as a mem­ber of the Butler council and during that period the larger number of the streets were paved, his influence ever being ex­erted in the direction of permanent public improvements.
He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Butler. Frater­nally he was identified with the Masons and Odd Fellows.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Belle Thompson

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from Pittsburgh, PA

She died during the typhoid fever epidemic in Butler, Pennsylvania.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 863.

2 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 811.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 944.

4 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

5 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 812.

6 Mariah Florence Burns, History of the Descendents of John Cambell & Ann Christy (Butler, PA: Miller Printing Company, 1923), Pg 120.