Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-17
Birthplace of Governor LOWden
 Still is Standing

Minnesota, quaint little village of 200 souls, the folks are holding daily political rallies Sometimes they meet in the "city hall," one room structure that tops rise at bend of the Sunrise river; sometimes ir Andrew Lind's general store And when the trail permits, the Sunrise folks journey to North Branch, q sister town some ten miles distant, and meet jointly with the enthusi- astic there.
 At the conclusion of each rally, State Representative Elits Nordgren, or s. w. Runyan, or Henry Voss, or Silas Boyce, or some other booster, will leap to his feet and shout:
 "All right, boys, three cheers fol our next president, our native son, Frank o. Lowden."
 Settled Near Sunrise.
 Back in the days of whites topped prairie schooners, ox-teams, and h. dian raids, early in 1858 to be exact, Lorenzo Lowden came out of Penn sylvania, swung into a trail leading to the north country and settled in the vicinity of Sunrise. Sunrise at that time was a lively little trading post in the heart of strip of coun- try replete with adventure.
 The Indians in their birch canoes came down the twisting Sunrise rlv- CT and the St. Croix with berries, dcer, fur, and fish and bargained for Qhe wares of the white man. When relations became strained, as some times happened, company of soi" d;cfs was called in to protect tEe whites.
 Thus was the setting when Lorenzo Luwdep moved into the vicinity cf the little trading post, and became the village blacksmith, three years before the birth of Frank.
 House Still Standing.
 The old home of the Lowdens, the horce where Frank o. Lowden wa born nearly sixty years ago, is still standing on it's original site two miles out of the village. It has been r.niodeled from time to time, bat 1 the original framework, rafters and uprights remain in position and the size and shape of the house have been el;ercd but little. It is now occup i'd ky S:las F. Boyce. He lives theie alone, widower.
 On the evening of January 26, 1861, farm hand, his face hidden in q shawl, came down the lonely, snow swept trail from the Lowden home and told the Sunrise folk that "the Lcwdens have boy" There was "re, thern" bowling down from Mei- iclne flat. Fences and small bu 'd- ings were lost beneath drifts of snow and the trail soon became impossible. The medicinal and food supplies which the farm hand started out @T- ter remained undelivered for thirty lcurs, but "the Lowden boy" suit IT, ed no i'll effects.
 Is Lowden Champion.
 There is story in Sunrise +has Henry Voss and Frank Lowden, were born only two months apart ana who were precisely the same slze. used to settle disputes with their fists almost every evening after schocl. But Henry, successful farmer of Sunrise, is one of Lo" den's most earnest champions.
 Frank used to be a great boy TOT canes" said Voss. "He liked to run, jump and wrestle. He wouldn't Jet the other kid outdo him. He Wa. particularly fond of water, and, like .hc test of us, could hardly wait f'' ..he ice to go out of the river in the spring. ri ] 1"Come on and take look at t.sH old swimming hole. Yes, the snow is pretty deep now, and it's hard to imagine going swimming, but there IS the place." he said, pointing 10 .hc ice covered stream. "And, d9o you see, right over there in the cen. Ger? We'll, that's where Frank Low den was nearly drowned. Trying 70 IIc what the other boys did, Frank mounted the springboard and plu .'ss. ed cad first into ten feet of water
 .Thecdose Voss, IT,, an older boy, saw Franks head bob up. It wen, iowr. bobbed up a second time ana again disappeared. Theodore rusns into the stream a few feet down current, and, diving beneath the wa ter, seized Frank by the halr ana pulled him to shore, where he was quickly revived"
 The old swimming hole is still there and it's popularity has never diminished.
 Followed the Oxen. l Frank Lowden, 7-yearloid poy who already had taste of the hard- ships of pioneering, one spring morn ing walked out of Sunrise behind iwhite topped prairie schooner drawn by team of oxen. Some weeks lat CT the Lowdens arrived in Hardin county, where young Lowden spent his youth. But the Lowdens didn't forget their friends in Sunrise. Min nesota. Nor did the Sunrise folk for get "the Lowden boy"
 
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