Lowell, Charles Winthrop, 1834-1877

Charles Winthrop Lowell is a ninth generation descendent of Percival Lowell, who was the first Lowell to emigrate to America, in 1639. He was born to Hon. Phillip Smith Lowell and Harriet Butler Lowell on November 20, 1834, in Farmingham, Maine.

He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859 and studied law with the Hon. Charles P. Chandler, whose daughter Mary Elizabeth he married in June of 1860. Their daughter, Mary Chandler Lowell, was born on January 18, 1864; her mother died six days later.

He was a prominent lawyer in Maine and Louisiana and served as a Colonel and as Provost Marshal-General in the Civil War. At the close of the war he settled in New Orleans, La., was member and Speaker of the Louisiana Legislature and for several year was postmaster of New Orleans.

He married, in or about 1879, Sarah ("Sally") W. Huff of Salem, Va., but had no children from this marriage. He died October 5, 1877, in Foxcroft, Maine.

From the description of Papers, 1860-1867. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 151371705