The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-03-27

ScuOoi anu leu Tue JOD IOT I'VE
years.
When he was 20 he had managed
to save enough money to enter the
University Of Iowa. His money ran
out. He was forced to get an
other school. While he was teach
ing he was studying SO that he was
able to keep up his course at the
university, and eventually he grad
uated at the head of his class.
Leading his class seems to have
become habit, for when he stud
led law at the Union College of
Law, now Northwestern, he took
the first prize for scholarship
besides completing two-year
course in one He worked as a
law clerk in Chicago at the same
time, earning So week. He was
graduated in law in 1887, and that
same year he was examined for
admission to the bar in the first
Illinois district and passed ahead
Of all who took the examination at
the same time.
Young Mr.. Lowden decided to
remain in Chicago and practice
law. He worked hard-nothing
new for him. His ris, in the pro-
fession was rapid. He did not give
much attention to trial cases, but
specialized on the business side.
He became Known as an expert in
drafting articles of Organization
! for business concerns which would
avoid any infringement of the law
He perfected the articles of organ
ization of the American Radiator
company, the National Biscuit COM
pany and other concerns. He
showed himself, his friends say, a
good lawyer.
He was recognized as one of
ChicagO's successful lawyers when
he married Miss Florence Pullman,
daughter of George NJ. Pullman of
Pullman Car company fame. They
were married in 1896. Mrs. Low
den is said to have inherited some
nine or ten millions of dollars from
her father. 1t is nearly ten years
now since Governor Lowden gave
over the active practice of law
and turned his attention to farm
ing and looking after his business
| interests.
Mr.. Lowden became interested in
politics. He campaigned in 1900
for William Mckinley, running for
| president. President Mckinley
later. offered him a high Office in
Washington, but Mr.. Lowden re-
fused, desiring to continue his le-
gal practice. In 1908 he was q
candidate for the nomination fol
governor of Illinois but was defeat
ed by Charles S. Deneen after q
strenuous campaign and conven-
ton lasting q days. Deneen was
elected on the 10th ballot by &
combination of the Yates and De
neen forces. His next politica
move was to run for congress from
the Thirteenth Illinois district il
1906. He was elected and served
two terms in Washington. From
1904 to 1912 he served as Republi
can national committeeman fol
Illinois. He was elected governor
in 1916 for a four-year term.
Remembering his early training
on an Iowa farm, Mr.. Lowden de
termined to 60 back to the farm.
/ In 1900 he purchased farm in thu
Rock river valley near the town o
Oregon. There he built handsome
home into which he moved his fam
ily. Many men Of wealth hav'
taken up farming as q pastime ant
they have sunk thousands OF dol
lars in their farms. The case o
Governor Lowden, however. Il
somewhat different, and his friends
} saw that he has operated his farm
successfully and made it pay. HI
has 1000 acres in this Illinois farm
of which about eight hundred ar,
under cultivation. He raises nue.
livestock and is a keen judge o
animals when it comes to buyinl
and selling them. Besides his I'LL
nois farm, Governor Lowden ha
cotton plantations in Texas an
: Arkansas which he looks after.
/, On a part Of the Illinois trac'
which Governor Lowden name
, Sinnissippi Farm, Mrs. Lowde
) has erected two cottages and I
!. them crippled boys and girls ar
, taken each year from Chicago nos