The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-12
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
Death Of tho Noted Author and Man Of
Letters, Aged ~.

Do~1N VI LILO NOted AuthOr ana MAN OF
Letters, Aged ~.
BosToN, Aug. 12.--Jamcs Russell Lowell
died this Wednesday, morning at 2:10.
James Russell Lowell, poet and essnyist,
was born in Cambridge. Mass, Feb. ~,
1919. He WAS son of the Rev. Chas. Low
ell, and III genius and character was the
hereditary Representative OF tho henrt and
brains that founded New England. He was
the Youngest OF five children. The place
OF his birth was tho old tory mansion. now
called Elmwood, on the st. Charles river.
Lowell entered Harvard at the age OF 16
and graduated In 1888. His first published
production was notable class poem. The
young satirist saw the humorous side
OF tho. social movements of the
day and the class poem acintilleting
with wit attacked tho abolitionists CARLYLE,
Emerson and the transcendentalists. He
received the degree Ill ID. at Harvard and
was admitted to the bar in 1910. The only
record of his practice Ia story entitled.
my First Client" After that he gave
himself entirely to literature.
In lS4l volume of poems, written under
the influence of affection for woman OF
genius, who became his wife, WAS published
under the title of YEARS Life"
He married Maria White in 1874.
She was an ardent abolitionist
thoughts to the serious side of that cause
to which he rendered immortal service.
Lowell and his wife we're regular contrib
utors to the Liberty Bell and
his name appears in 184S in the
Anti-Slavery Standard as corresponding
appeared in this paper. Later the
of his productions and in its
columns the first series of the Bigelow
Papers was given to the public. In the
main it was satire on slavery and the
Mexican war. His interest in the anti
slavery contest did not prevent his purely
Mrs Mrs. 'S Browning, A''' Whittier and and
w. w. Story were contributors
Only three numbers were published, the
venture failing through financial disaster
to the publishers.
ell's first work 10 literary criticism. Mean
time he was contributor to other literary
publications. The chief fruits of visit
abIoad were his essays on Italian art and
literature, and his eminence as student
and interpreter of Dante. His wife died in
1853.
Two years later, on Longfellow's resigna
tion, Lowell was appointed professor OF
modern languages and bellies lettres in
Harvard. From 1857 to 1862 he wrote
many articles for the Atlantic Monthly
and in 1868 he and Prof. Charles
Eliot Norton became joint editors of the
North American Review, connection
which he maintained until 1879. He then
occupied his time in general literary work
publishing many poems and prose essays.
Lowell was a presidential elector in 1876
and in 1877 President Hayes appointed
him to the Spanish mission. from
which he was transferred in 1880 TO the
court of st. James. His diplomatic career
closed with his recall by President Cleve-
land i'll 1885. During his residence in Lon
don, in February. 1886. he lost by death hii
second wife, Miss Frances Dunlap, of Port
land, Me-, whom he married in 1857.
| His services at Madrid and London CON-
prised his ensire political career. Since hi
return to private life his home was with his
only child, Mrs. Edward Burnett, at South
boro, Mass. He resumed his lectures q
Cambridge, and delivered many YER,
able addresses. The universities OF
Oxford and Cambridge, as vel
as American institutions conferred on hin
many degrees of honor. His last few year,
have been spent in comparative retirement
He dies at the nge of II, full of years ane
honor, one of the most illustrious literary
| men of the United States.