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 Goff OF
| Clarksburg, w. Va, brother of Judge Ma
| than Golf, for the Cumberland Daily News
| which he owned.
| Mr. I.owndes leaves a wife, five sons and
one daughter. 1t is believed that he an
| ticipated the end as he tarred longer than
usual at the Second National Bank. of
which he was president, going over old
papers. Mr. Lowndes active in the
work of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and was delegate to several conventions:
Mr. Lowndes owned extensive mines and
coal lands. He was elected governor IN
the great political upheaval against the
German organization in 1895, and served
four years. Among the kilograms or con-
dolence is one from President Roosevelt.
Governor Warfeld 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. Warheid
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 q,
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 a course at Allegany
| College at Meadville, Pa, from which he
| was graduated with honor in 1865
Having determined to follow the profess
CT, Of hn Low hn han avp,a a
| Richard l.. Ashurst, one of Philadelphia
| prominent members of the bar, as stu
| dent, and at the same time pursued the
| law course at the University of Pennsyl-
yania Upon graduation he settled in Cum
| berland and was at once engaged In an
| active practice. which soon grew to De
| 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, ne accepted me
nomination for Congress from the sixth
district of Maryland, and was elected over
John Richie of Frederick county, the dem
ocratic nominee, by a large majority. His
career In Congress was successful, and in
the different committees on which he
served his opinion was considered of great
value, although he was the youngest MEM
Der of the House He was candidate for
reelection in 1894, but was defeated by 90
votes.
First Republican Governor Since War.
He was delegate-at-large to the repub-
lican national convention in 1879 and a
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 nominal
ton for governor, and was elected by
| 10000 plurality. His term as forty-s1xth
governor of Maryland was from 1886 to
IL he irS
| the state had had in thirty years. In 1899
he was renominated. but was defeated for
reelection His administration was marked
| by considerable number of movements
| for the public good which We're carried out
| successfully.
| Ex-Governor Lowndes inherited a large
| fortune which he steadily increased, and
| he had extensive commercial and financial
| investments.
In all the years of his active business
| life he never lost his fondness for literary
I and social pursuits, and numbered hosts OF
| friends in the American Academy of Po-
| liticaI Science of Philadelphia; the South
| ern Society of New York, the Maryland,
| the Athenaeum, the University and the
| Young Mems Republican Clubs OF Baltl-
more. of all of which organizations he was
| an active member. .
His Family Antecedents.
| LLOYD Lowndes was a descendant of a
distinguished Maryland family, with west
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 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
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 mer-
| chant at Georgetown, d. c., but husbandry
| being more to his taste, he retired upon a
| 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. & R.
| T. 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 vestryman and church
warden of Emanuel parish, Cumberland,
| and for about twenty-five consecutive years
| was delegate from his parish to the do
! cesar conventions. His home in Cumber-
land, while modest in appearance, being a
/ one-story cottage. is one of the most ele-
| 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
| napolis, and in almost all that time the
| house was filed with guests. They gave
many splendid entertainments and dinners,
| and the government house was then, as 1t
| is now, the social center of Annapolis Both
| Gov. and Mrs Lowndes had large family
| connections throughout Maryland
| They were nearly related to Commodore
Charles Lowndes of the United States navy.
| who lived on Miles river In Talbot county.
| They were also related to the wife of Ad-
| mirai Franklin Buchanan of the confeder-