The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-12
l0WDEN PRODUCT
 OF MIDDLE WEST
Gained His Present Emi. hence Through Own
 Efforts.

Frank. o. Iowden is a product of the middle West. Born in Mime sota, reared in iowa, educated in
 Iowa and Chicago, he worked out his
 career close to the scenes of his early life. He was the son of a village
 blacksmith. His father, Lorenzo
 Lowden, owned a shop at Sunrise,
 Minn., near where Frank was born
 on a farm, Jan. 2e, 1861, and where
 he attended a primitive school Older
 residents of the village tell stories of tthe governors studiousness even at an early age,
 In 1888 when Lorenzo Lowden' moved to Point Pleasant, Iowa. Frank fsrnasie the trip as far as St. Paul on Hoot, the seven year old boy trudging tbehfndL the prairie sch ooner that car
 ried the family effects, At 5 years
 he began a career as a school teacher.
 For five years he taught and discipIin-
 ed the farmer boys of Iowa, augment
 Ing his income by working as janitor
 of his school and on a farm in the
 summer, By teaching and by work
 ing as a clerk in a Chicago law of
 flee he obtained funds which enabled him to study first in the University of Iowa and then in the Union Col lege of Iowa. now the law school of
 Northwestern University, from both of which he was graduated.
 1 Beginning the practice of law in Chicago, he later became a recogniz- ed leader of the bar of that city and acquired a comfortable fortune. For a time he osrupied the chair of fed heralr Jurisprudence at-sNorthwestern- 1 When 35 Lowden was married to Miss Florence Pullman daughter of Mir and Mrs. George M. Pullman, and one of the heirs to the great { Pullman estate. Four children were born to them, three daughters Flor ! ence, Harriett and Frances. and one son, Pullman.
 Following his establishment in law ton a firm footing, Lowden began to Hake an active part in politics He
 was delegate to the Republican national convention in 1900, when Mckinley and Roosevelt were nomi- mated Four years later he entered the race for the Republican guber- material nomination. The convention developed an historic political battle, and finally after the sixty-ninth bal Hot, a. combination of the Yates Deneen factions nominated Charles S. Deneen- Lowden took the stump and helped elect his rival In this same year Lowt1en was elected Republican national committeeman from Illinois, a position he retained until 1912
 Meanwhile Lowden acquired a large farm near Oregon, H., 100 miles west of Chicago, where he established his home In 1906 he was elected to Congress from the 18th district of Illinois He was again elected two years later, but resigned on account of i'll health before the completion of his term
 Entering the gubernatoria1 fight a second time in 1916, he won easily in the primary and in the fall was elected governor
 Among the achievements accredited to his administration of the state are the consolidation of more than 125 state administrative bodies into nine executive departments under provis- ion of the cival administrative code; in auEuration of the budget system; beginning of work on 4 800 miles of hard surface roads to cost SS7, ,00o,- 900, and inauguration of construction work on the 0,ooO,o0 waterway link to connect the Great Lakes with the Gulf of Mexico
 In addition to Sinnissippi larm at Oregon Ill., Mr. Lowden owns a large cotton plantation in Arkansas and one of the Thousand Island in the St Lawrence where he has built his sum mer home