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Name
  
Edward Lowell


Role
  
Lawyer

Children
  
Guy Lowell

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Died
  
May 1894, Cotuit, Massachusetts, United States

Books
  
Eve of the French Revolution

Education
  
Harvard University (1867), Harvard College

Edward Jackson Lowell (October 18, 1845 in Boston – May 11, 1894 in Cotuit, Massachusetts) was a United States (Massachusetts) lawyer and historian.

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Biography

Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1867. After his graduation, he spent several years studying and traveling abroad. In 1868, he married Mary Wolcott Goodrich. He pursued a business career for a year or so, studied law, and was admitted to the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, bar in 1872. He practised law until 1874, when his wife died, and he gave up his practise to take care of his children and study. In 1877, he married Elizabeth Gilbert Jones. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works

  • The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War (1884) A trip abroad in 1879 got him interested in this topic. The material first appeared as a series of letters in The New York Times.
  • The Eve of the French Revolution on the Internet Archive (1892)
  • “The United States of America 1775-1782: their Political Relations with Europe,” a chapter from volume VII of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America (1888) Some sources report the title of the section as “The Diplomacy and Finance of the Revolution.”

    • He wrote numerous magazine and review articles.

    Family

    He was a grandson of Francis Cabot Lowell. His son, Guy Lowell, became a distinguished American architect and landscape designer.

    References

    Edward Jackson Lowell Wikipedia
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