♂ John Lowry Jr.

1823 - 1865

 

Lowrey Lowery

John Lowry Jr.
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Spouse
Catharine Jessup
Catharine Jessup
???? - 1845
Mary Lowry
Mary Lowry
1826 - 1917
Children
Minerva Lowry
Minerva Lowry
1847 - 1881
Charles Henry Lowry
Charles Henry Lowry
1848 - 1906
Andrew Thomas Lowry
Andrew Thomas Lowry
1851 - 1930
Jaretta Ann Lowry
Jaretta Ann Lowry
1852 - 1920
Emily Jane Lowry
Emily Jane Lowry
1856 - 1940
Clara May Lowry
Clara May Lowry
1864 - 1909
Siblings
 

Timeline

1844


Jul 18
Age: 21y
1844 • The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.

1847


Jan 14
Age: 24y

1850


Aug 7
Age: 27y
1850 California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.

1850


Aug 7
Age: 27y
1850 • The traditional date of Kansas City, Missouri's founding. This is the date on which it is incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri as the "Town of Kansas".

1851


Jan 9
Age: 28y

1852


Age: 29y
1852 Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army took Hanyang and begins the siege of Wuchang.

1856


Age: 33y
John & Mary & George T. Lowry - Iowa State Census 1856

residence


Elk River, Iowa, USA ⇓
At the time, they owned a 100 acres of unimproved land and 70 acres of improved (farmed) land. They had been resident in the state for five years. Living right next to George T Lowry.
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1856 Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). Sumner is unable to return to duty for 3 years while he recovers; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.

1856


Jun 1
Age: 33y

1860


Jun 8
Age: 37y
John & Mary Lowry - 1860 United States Federal Census

residence


Elk River, Iowa, USA ⇓
He had two children, Albert born in roughly 1855, and Mary E. born in roughly 1860 who both died in early childhood. Albert appears on the 1856 census, and Mary E. appears on this 1860.
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1860 • Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria.

1863


Jul 1
Age: 40y
John Lowry - U.S. Civil War Draft Registration

military


Elk River, Iowa, USA ⇓
Civil War draft registration for the Union. In 1863, the U.S. Federal Government began drafting all men 20-45 for the civil war until 1865 at the war's end. He was drafter under Philo E. Hall, Provost Marshall.
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1863 American Civil War – The Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia ends inconclusively.

1865


Jan 14
Age: 42y
1865 • Secretary Seward declares Thirteenth Amendment ratified by three-quarters of the states (including those in secession); slavery legally outlawed in the last two slave states of Kentucky and Delaware and the remaining 45,000 slaves are freed.

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