Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-02-11
THOMAS LOWRY
PASSES AWAY
DkATH COMES AFTER MONTHS
OF SUFFERING.
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Mr.. Lowry Was President of the 500
Railroad, the Twin City Rapid @
Transit Co. and Its SUBJ, ~
T. ordinate Lines. .Es

Minneapolis, Feb. Thomas Low.
ny, president of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company; president of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie railroad, one of Minneapolis
Oldest residents and most distinguish
ed citizens, died at $3.50 o'clock Thurs
day morning at his residence, Hen,
nepin and Groveland avenues, r on
Lowry Hill. .-@ RI
For about four years Thomas Lowry
has fought In the shadow of death,
knowing that he was doomed, but
scorning to surrender Quietly and
unostentatiously he bore his affliction.
He was the same cheerful Tom that
his friends had always known and no
one ever heard complaint from his
Nps. gYtF4 . n
The end has been expected for 4S
hours. Mr., Lowry's condition took
decided turn for the worse last week
and physicians thought he would 40,
live many days.
DIR. 4Gustave Schuyler, Mr.. Lowry's
son-in-law, had been the attending
physician since Mr.. Lowry's first Ill.
ness. He and his assistants, together
with Mrs. Lowry, Mr.. Horace Lowry,
the only son, and Mrs. Gustave Schwy-
Ger, daughter, were present when
one OF Minneapolis best loved citizens
breathed his last Mrs. Percy Hag-
german of Colorado Springs, Mr.. Low
RVS other daughter, has been sum-
boned.
The funeral services were held at
the residence Saturday afternoon at
two o'clock and were strictly private.
Only the relatives and intimate friends
OF the deceased we're present. The in
torment was in the Lowry family maui
soleum at Lakewood cemetery.
Thomas Lowry was born Feb. ~, 1s4s,
In Logan county, Illinois. He was the son
Of Samuel r. and Rachel Bullock Lowry
His father was born in Londonderry, Ire,
land, IN 1903, just century ago, and was
one of the many Irishmen who moved
westward across the waters as their
sons did later across the prairies, to be-
come part Of new and undeveloped
region. His wife, Rachel Bullock, mother
OF Thomas Lowry, was native of Har-
risburg, Pa who died In the prime Of
her womanhood leaving q family of small
children In 1884 Samuel Lowry Joined
the western movement and settled on a
farm in central Illinois, when that coun-
try was a comparative wilderness. There,
wptsr sayg pv Tenn
and atmosphere as Abraham Lincoln
Of Samuel and Rachel Lowry, three Of
only sister died in this city a number Of
years ago. His brother, William Ross
Lowry, served with distinction in the
President Lincoln was assassinated. In
the death Of Thomas Lowry, therefore,
the family loses it's last member.
passed. ssss " the rugged and ns
trious way necessitated by residence
on small farm in newly opened coun-
try. Pleasures We're few and far be-
tween, hard work an ever present neces-
sity 1t was the foundation upon which
has been built the majority of eminent
American lives--a foundation Of industry
oheerfully accepted as one of the neces-
sites Of existence. where a smoother
path and larger advantages were to be
obtained IL only one wayEby, individual
to which this country owes its swift and
sure pre- eminence. During his boyhood
Mr.. Lowry received the hard-won and
s y . ag ad thaa hs re sa
BY candle and IRE, light. over the precious
reader and arithmetic i Is simply
tered the Lombard university at, Gales
burg, III, but owing to III health was
forced to leaye that l1stitdtion h before
aa 3lls possible. After leaving the
university and attsining his majority he
Srpri M On the Missouri river. ne then Re-
turned to Illinois, entered the law ONCE