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Arrived 1833 (Howard's sketch) / 1834 (1875 directory) · Section 11
The tie, exactly: settlers, 1833 — with the variance printed whole. Howard's biographical sketch of the grandson carries the family in: James Lowry, born at Leeds, Yorkshire, came to America by way of Delaware and in 1833 entered the Harris Township farm, dying about 1840 at forty-nine. The 1875 atlas directory, listing his son, gives the family's county settlement as 1834 and the nativity as Sussex County, Delaware. The sketch (1833) and the directory (1834) are both printed; the record does not choose between them.
The second generation: James Lowry Jr., born in Delaware in 1820 and brought here in the family's coming, owned 350 acres across Harris Township and Milton Township, Michigan, lent money, and worshipped with the Christian church; his twelve years as township trustee stand in the Government leg. His wife was Hester E. (Powell) Lowry, born in Delaware in 1822, who came in 1837. He died in February 1904.
The third generation, at pointer strength: their son Franklin E. Lowry, born on the Harris farm 8 December 1849, taught twelve years — principal of the Marcellus, Michigan, schools in 1875–76 — then came to Granger village in 1882 and built its trade: the mercantile business from 1883, the grain dealing and the elevator, and large landholdings. His thirteen years as Granger's postmaster and his township trusteeship stand in the Government leg, and the village-founding course stands in this build's Spine; he is carried here as the third Lowry of the line, at the strength those legs give him, not re-profiled.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Franklin E. Lowry sketch, carrying the grandfather's and father's courses.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas (1875), Harris patrons' directory, p. 103 — James Lowry, Section 11, Sussex County, Delaware, settled 1834.