The Lowell Family
Percival Lowell, married Rebecca, had a son
Richard Lowell, married twice, (1) Margaret, (2) Margaret. By his
second wife Margaret he had issue,
Percival Lowell. He too married a Margaret, the daughter of
William Chandler and his wife Mary, daughter of Richard Fowler.
They had issue a son,
Gideon Lowell, born September 3, 1672 in Amesbury, Massachusetts,
married twice, first wife [married 1692] was Miriam Swett, the
daughter of John Swett [son of Stephen, son of John] and Mary
Plummer [m. 1670], daughter of Samuel Plummer.
Lieut. John Lowell, b. South Carolina, February 1, 1696-97. Died
before 1748. Married Rachel Sargent, born Amesbury,
Massachusetts, 1703, d., 1779; Rachel was the daughter of Jacob
Sargent and Gastret Davis. Jacob was the son of Thomas (2), son
of William Sargent (1). Lt. John Lowell and Rachel Sargent had
issue
John Lowell, born 1724. Married Martha Currier of Amesbury,
Massachusetts. John and Martha had issue,
Jacob Lowell, born West Bath, Maine June 3, 1752. He was a
soldier of the American Revolution. He traveled up the Sheepscot
River to Alna, Maine where he built a log house and settled. In
Arrowsic, Maine in 1776, he married Jane McFadden who was born in
Arrowsic September 3, 1753. They had issue,
Jacob Lowell, Jr., born in Alna, Maine, June 22, 1781, died
Concord, Maine, January 29, 1843. Married Grace McFadden of
Embden, Maine. Grace died in Concord, Maine in 1854. They had
issue five sons, all of whom went to Stillwater, Minnesota and
lived at least for a time[according to the Newspaper account
(January 5) of Elmer Lowell's death January 4, 1935]:
1. William Lowell, a lumberman of Stillwater.
2. Jacob Lowell, retired.
3. John Lowell, lumberman of Stillwater.
4. Jotham Lowell, proprieter of a general store in Stillwater.
5. Albert Lowell, born Concord, Maine, July 10, 1819, died
Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 22, 1888, and buried in
Stillwater, Minnesota. Kept a hotel, "one of the best hotels in
the state," the Sawyer House, in Stillwater, Minnesota from
1863. From that he was a farmer there from 1854. At Kendall's
Mills, Maine, he married on February 5, 1850 Abbie Bicknell
Reed, who was born in East Madison, Maine on August 6, 1832 and
died in Durbin, North Dakota in May 9, 1890, and buried in
Stillwater, Minnesota. They moved to Stillwater in 1854. Abbie
was the daughter of Josiah Reed and Abigail Bicknell. They had
I. Eleanore Lowell, born January 20, 1851.
II. Clara Abbie Lowell, born June 11, l853, died 1854.
III. Ernest Reed Lowell, born February, 1857.
IV. Charles Albert Lowell, born November 24, 1858 in Solon,
Maine [A newspaper article on the Lowell family said he was
born in Stillwater, Minnesota]. He removed to Cassleton,
North Dakota in 1878 where he took up land. He married
twice: first, on November 25, 1880, Sarah Ross who died on
July 9, 1886. He died on Wednesday, October 16, 19 . His
obituary states: "ALHAMBRA, Oct. 18. --Private funeral
services will be held for Charles A. Lowell, 88, a former
North Dakota rancher who had been a resident of this section
for many years. Mr. Lowell died Wednesday at Santa Paula..."
They had issue:
1. Clara Abbie Lowell, born in Cassleton, North Dakota
October 16, 1881. She married February 16, 1908 William
Earl Cooney who was born in Iowa. They lived in Santa
Paula, California. They had two daughters:
(1) Helen Lowell Cooney, born in Fillmore,
California in 1913. She married Percy Eaton
Skaling on Saturday, Octrober 17, 1942 in San
Marino, California. They had issue:
[1] Bryce Cooney
[2] Whitney Cooney
(2) Elizabeth Ross Lowell Cooney, born in
Fillmore, California in 1916. She married
Robert James Sutton on Saturday, June 7, 1952
in Los Angeles, California.
2. Lillian V. Lowell, who married [according to Chs. A.
Lowell Obituary] who married _____ Jackson of
Pennsylavnia.
Charles Albert Lowell married secondly on July 31, 1894,
Maud Marie Whitman, daughter of Newton W. Whitman and Mary
Swift. Maud was born April 12, 1869. Charles Albert Lowell
and Maud Marie Whitman had:
3. Martha Elinor [Eleanor] Lowell, born August 16,
1896 in Casselton, North Dakota. At home, at 123
North Vine Street, Los Angeles, California, at eight
o'clock on Saturday evening, August 13, 1921, she
married Elmer Ellsworth Bailey, Jr., son of Elmer
Ellsworth Bailey and Lillian Josephine Smith, born
July 4, 1895, in Suffield, Connecticut, died October
28, 1965. They had issue:
(1) Joan Bailey, born July 10, 1924, married
Alvin Sargent Hambly, Jr. See HAMBLY family
for issue.
(2) Nancie Eleanor Bailey, born in Pasadena,
California in 1927. Married Donald Rodney
Hodgman, Esq. in Palos Verdes, California, on
Saturday, October 2, 1954. They had issue:
[1] Donna Hodgman
[2] Cynthia Hodgman
4. Margaret Lowell, born 1899, who married at six
o'clock on Saturday afternoon, June 11th, 19 , at the
Church of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, Harold
Weston Sayre. [At athe death of Charles A. Lowell they
were living in San Gabriel, California]. They had issue:
(1) Ann Sayre who did not marry.
(2) Marjory Sayre who married Bill Yates.
They had:
[1] John Yates
[2] Craig Yates
5. Maude Lowell, born 1893, who married George F.
Rogers. At the death of Charles A. Lowell they were of
San Gabriel, California. George and Maude had issue:
(1) Elinor Rogers who married Charles Edward
Pettingal, Jr., on Friday, March 29, 1940 at
their home at 2000 F Street, North West,
Washington, D.C. They had:
[1] Suzie Pettingal
[2] Charles Pettingal
[3] Thom Pettingal
(2) Lowell Rogers who married Elwyn Burrell
Adams, the daughter of Mrs. Marguerite Perry
Adams at 8:00 P.M. on Saturday, December 21,
19 , at Saint Cross Episcopal Church,
Hermosa Beach, California. They had four
children. He married secondly, Laura _____.
(3) Jean Rogers who married on Tuesday, the
seventh of September, 1948 in San Marino,
California, Robert Melvin LeVan. They had:
[1] Barbara LeVan
[2] Jennie LeVan
[3] Douglas LeVan