Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-09
LOWNDES DROPS DEAD
EX-GOV. OF MARYLAND WAS
STRICKEN WHILE BATHING.
Youngest Member of Congress in 1917
Only Republican Governor Of
State Since Civil War.

| morning at Cumberland, Nd, In his bath
room. while his valet was rubbing him
| down after his bath. He was the only re-
| publican governor here in thirty years.
Death was caused by valvular heart trou-
| BILE He was sixty years old. One of his
| last acts was writing an obituary late Sat
| urday night of his friend. Captain Golf of
| Clarksburg, w. Va. brother of Judge Ma
| than Golf. for the Cumberland Daily News,
which he owned.
Mr. Lowndes leaves a wife. five sons and
one daughter. 1t is believed that he an
ticipated the end as he tarried longer than
usual at the Second National Bank, of
which he was president, going over old
papers. MIR. Lowndes was active in the
work of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and was a delegate to several conventions;
Mr.. Lowndes owned extensive mines ana
coal lands. He was elected governor IN
the great political upheaval against the
German organization in 1895, and served
four years. Among the kilograms of con-
dolence is one from President Roosevelt.
Governor Warfield was greatly shocked
when informed of the death of Mr..
Lowndes. He Immediately ordered the flags
on the state house at half-mast, and direct
ed that the state buildings be draped In
mourning. Governor and Mrs. warmed
telegraphed their condolences to the family
and stated that they desired to attend the
funeral
Long and Brilliant Career.
Lloyd Lowndes was born in Clarksburg,
Harrison county. Va, on February Il,
1915. He received his early and academic
education in the city of his birth, and at
the age of sixteen entered Washington Col
lege, at Washington. Pa, and two years
there was followed by course at Allegany
College. at Meadville, Pa. from which he
was graduated with honor in 1860
Having determined to follow the profess
sion of the law, he became associated with
Richard l.. AShurSt, one of Philadelphia s
prominent members of the bar, as stu
dent and at the same time pursued the
| law course at the University of PennSyl-
vania Upon graduation he settled In Cum
berland, and was at once engaged In an
active practice, which soon grew to be
lucrative Soon afterward he was elected
president of the Allegany County Bar AS
ISOLATION, which position he held for many
years
| In 1872 at the solicitation of the leaders
| in the republican party, he accepted the
! nomination for Congress from the sixth
district of Maryland, and was elected over
John Ritche of Frederick county, the dem
ocratic nominee, by a large majority. His
career in Congress was successful, and In
the different committees on winch ne
served his opinion was considered OF great
value, although he was the youngest MEM
Der of the House. He was a candidate for
reelection in 1894, but was defeated by 81
votes.
First Republican Governor Since War.
He was delegate-at-large to the repub-
lican national convention in 1879, and
commissioner of the worlds fair in 1876
from Maryland. For many years he de-
voted himself to his business interests, and
refused to re-enter the field of politics, but
| in 1895 he accepted the republican nomina-
! ton for governor, and was elected by
10000 plurality. His term as forty-slxth
governor of Maryland was from 1886 to
| 1900. He was the first republican governor
| the state had had in thirty years. In 1879
he was renominated, but was defeated for
reelection. His administration was marked
| BY considerable number of movements
| for the public good which were carried out
| successfully.
| Ex-Governor Lowndes inherited a large
| fortune which he steadily increased, and
he had extensive commercial and financial
| investments.
In ali the years of his active business
| life he never lost his fondness for literary
/ and social pursuits, and numbered hosts OF
| friends in the American Academy OF Po-
| litical Science of Philadelphia; the South
| ern Society of New York, the Maryland,
| the Athenaeum, the University and the
Young Mems Republican Clubs of Balti-
] more, of all of which organizations ne was
| an active member. =.
His Family Antecedents.
| LLOYD Lowndes was a descendant of
distinguished Maryland family, with west
| ern and eastern shore ramificattons. The
family is also prominent in South Carolina
| Richard Lowndes of Bostock House, Che
shire, England was the great-great-grand-
| father of Lloyd Lowndes. His great
| grandfather, Christopher Lowndes. came
| from England and was a successful mer-
| chant at Bladensburg, Prince George
| county before the national capital was 10
| Gated at Washington. He married Eliza
! beth Tasker. daughter of Gov. Tasker, one
[ Of the prominent early colonial governors
of the state. His grandfather, Charles
| Lowndes married Elizabeth Lloyd daugh-
ter of Gov. Edward Lloyd. one of the most
| distinguished of the early governors OF
| Maryland and through this ancestry he
| was connected with the Lloyds, who had at
| different times served as governors OF
| Maryland
| Charles Lowndes was in early life a mer-
| chant at Georgetown, d. c.. but husbandry
| being more to his taste, he retired upon
| neat estate in Jefferson county. the eastern
| outpost of the valley of Virginia. On the
4th of July, 1900. before this event. Lloyd
| Lowndes, the father of the former COVER
nor was born at Georgetown, D. c..
| When twenty-four years of age he and
| his younger brother, Richard T. Lowndes,
| settled In Cumberland. Md They followed
| the family traditions and engaged in mer-
| camille business Soon the firm of l.. & X.
| II. Lowndes became one of the strongest in
| the state.
| Church and Home
Gov Lowndes was an earnest member Of
| the Episcopal Church. and for many years.
| up to his death, was yestryman and church
warden of Emanuel parish, Cumberland
| and for about twenty-five consecutive years
was delegate from his parish to the dio-
| cesar conventions. His home In Cumber-
| land, while modest in appearance, being a
one-story cottage. is one of the most eie-
| CANT in Cumberland, and INTELLECTUALLY
| one of the finest residences in the state 1t
| has always been, since occupied by Gov
| and Mrs. Lowndes, the scene of charming
| hospitality, many distinguished men and
| women of the country having been enter
| tanned there.
While governor of Maryland Mr. and
| Mrs. Lowndes and their family spent the
| winters at the government house in An
napoiis, and in almost all that time the
| house was filled with guests. They gave
| many splendid entertainments and dinners,
| and the government house was them as it
| is now. the social center of Annapolis. Both
Gov. and Mrs. Lowndes had large family
| connections throughout MARYLAND.