Karl Lowe

Karl Lowe was born on 9 April 1843 in Belm, Lower Saxony, Germany. 
He had a twin brother: Otto Lowe. They moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA in 1860. He became good friends with Samuel Hasselhoff.
In 1861, he joined the US Army as a Private and fought in the Civil War under Major General Franz Sigel with his brother. In the Army, he made good friends with Josef Von Bingen, Hugo Kohring and Gerhard Strasburger. In 1863, he made Corporal. In 1864, he made Sergeant. 
In 1866, he left his brother and moved to New York City, New York with Hasselhoff.
In 1867, he was a co-founder of the early Hasselhoff Gang. 
In 1867, Stanley Brooks was transporting money and ammunition from Boston, Massachusetts to New York City, New York with George Jenkins, Louie Wilson and Finley Booth. They were robbed by the early Samuel Hasselhoff Gang: Tommy Freeman, Samuel Hasselhoff, Karl Lowe, Liam Gilmore, Alan O’Daly and Aiden Murrily in Darien.
In 1873, the gang left New York for a train robbery in Ohio. Lowe and James Whitehall stayed in Millersburg where they met a new gang member, Joachim Gingerich