The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-05-12
HON. LLOYD LowNDEs.
One Of Maryland's Leading
Men.

the great metropolitan newspa
pers of the country gives a bio.
GRAPHICAL sketch of Hon. Lloyd
Lowndes who has many friends
in Clarksburg where he was born
and where his boyhood days were
spent. The american also gives
space fora large two column por-
trait of Mr.. Lowndes and speaks
concerning him as follows
Among the progressive men OF
Maryland there stands no more
prominent figure than that OF
Hon. Lloyd Lowndes, of Cum.
berland, and the only regret that
the city of his adoption has is
that it cannot claim him as one
of its children by right of birth.
To Maryland's sister State
old Virginia belongs that honor
and distinction. and when, on the
morning of February 21st, 1916,
Lloyd Lowndes first saw tie
light OF day in Clarksburg, Mary
land had but little, if any, inter
est in the advent, 1t was not
until twenty-three years after,
when, in 1867, he took up his
residence in this city, that a
mutual interest at once manifest
ed itself and Cumberland began
to realize that a man of future
prominence had become a citizen
of Maryland, and watched with
great interest the commencement
ola promising career, and, from
year to year, with great gratifica-
ton, noted his onward and up.
ward path, marked by milestones
recording financial and popular
success.
Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., the young
est son of Lloyd Lowndes and
the subject of this sketch, was
born in Clarksburg, Harrison
county, Virginia. on the morning
of February 21st, 1s45, and in
that city received the early part
of his education. When hewas
sixteen years of age he entered
Washington College, of Wash
ington, Pa. He spent two years
there and then went to Allegha-
ny College, at Meadville, Pa,
where a further term of two
years completed his scholastic
education, and he graduated with
honor in 1865.
Having some time previously
determined to adopt the law as a
profession, he entered the Office
of Richard L. Ashurst, one OF
Philadelphia's prominent lawyers
where. with a course in the Uni.
verslty of Pennsylvania as an
auxiliary, he devoted his entire
energy to the requirement Of
that knowledge of law which
while engaged in practice at the
Allegheny bar, won for him the
enviable distinction of being
elected president of the
Allegheny County Bar Associa.
ton and being q man whose
opinions were sought after.
Upon his graduation he settled
in Cumberland, and soon acquir.
ed a large and lucrative practice.
His thorough knowledge of the
fundamental principles Of con
stitutional law and his great per
sonalpopularity made him a most
desirable candidate for Congress,
sional honors. and, at the urgent
request of the leaders of the Re.
publican party he accepted the
nomination for Congress, and
went INTO the campaign of 1879,
and was elected over the Hon.
John Richie, of Frederick coun.
ty, the Democratic nominee, by
the majority of 100. In this
fight, Mr.. Lowndes threw all Of
that energetic and persistent APP
-plication which had characterized
his work at school, the college,
the university and while practic.
ing at the bar. and the '.forlorr
hope" led by him at that time
was right gallantly won and
showed a reversal of 5000 votes
his antagonist having been elect.
ed two years before by a MAORI,
ty of 1900. When he entered
the Forty-third Congress he was