Porter W. Lowry and Jeanette Browne

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Husband Porter W. Lowry ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Porter W. Lowery,3 Porter Wilson Lowry 4
           Born: 12 Feb 1855 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Col. Alexander Lowrey (1814-1895) 5
         Mother: Margaret Spear (Abt 1820-1886) 3

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       Marriage: 17 Jun 1896 2

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   Other Spouse: Mary W. Hazen (1865-1891) 1 4 - 30 Jan 1890 4

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Wife Jeanette Browne ²

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General Notes: Husband - Porter W. Lowry

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He attended the public schools in early boyhood, after which he pursued a course of study in Witherspoon Institute. He read law under the direction of Hon. Ebenezer McJunkin, and was admitted to the bar of Butler County in 1876. He then engaged in practice in Butler and met with success, numbering among his clients many of the leading business interests of that city. He was an active worker for the success of the Republican party and the principles it stood for, and was chairman of the Republican County Committee in 1894, when the party was given the largest majority in Butler County in its history.
He was active in Masonic work and was Past Master of Butler Lodge No. 272 F. & A. M. and a Past High Priest of Butler Royal Arch Chapter No. 273, and an officer in the Grand Chapter of Masons of Pennsylvania. He was a member of and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Butler. [TCHBC, 638]

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 707.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 638.

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 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 380.

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