Seventh Generation

3038. Jenny B ACKLEY was born about 1865 in Bloomfield, Trumbull , Ohio.^333,719,720 She appeared in the census 1870 & 1880 in Ohio.

Jenny B ACKLEY and Dr John W LOWE were married.^333,1318 Dr John W LOWE (son of Living and Living) was born on 17 Jul 1855 in Brantford, Ontario , Canada.¹³¹⁸ Biography of¹³¹⁸ JOHN W. Lowe. M. D., one of the leading physicians of Mentor. being a practitioner of over twenty years standing, was born in Brant­ford. Ontario. Canada. July 17, 1855, first son of John and Ann (Wilson) Low, natives of Aberdeen. Scotland. John Low came to British America when a young man, and located near Brantford, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He and his wife were members of the old Scotch Presbyterian Church. They were parents of ten children. The family name was changed to Lowe in this country.
Dr. John W. Lowe was reared on his father's farm, two and a half miles north of the city of Brantford, at a place known as Tranquility. At the age of twenty he obtained permission to venture out for himself. He secured em­ployment with Thomas D. Batson, of Tranquility, as business manager of a farm of 310 acres and fifty of pine woods. While in the employ of Mr. Batson, Dr. Lowe was assigned the task of soliciting the money for, and super-intending the building of Tranquility Methodist church, and was actively concerned in all departments of its work at that place. Being naturally a close and careful financier.- he saved his earnings and in eight years had ac­cumulated a sufficient amount to enable him to launch out in business for himself. At this time an opportunity presented itself. A gen­eral store on the corner of Duke and Waterloo streets. Brantford. was for sale on account of failure. He secured the assistance of an old school mate of some experience in mercantile business, the stock was purchased with the farmer's money and the store reopened under the name Lowe & Atkins. They did a flourish­ing business, but could not endure the trust system and sold out. Mr. Lowe's partner took up theology, and he himself went into medical science.
The doctor's early educational advantages were confined to the district schools. In 1879 he became a member of the Chautauqua Liter­ary and Scientific Circle, and graduated with the class of 1883. When a boy he was a mem­ber of three debating societies, one at Tranquility, one at the Paris road school, and the famous Farrington Debating Society of the city of Brantford. The debate in which he attained the greatest degree of success, and which he led in the affirmative was, “Resolved, That Canada is destined to see a greater future than the United States.” He was a non-com­missioned officer in Company No. 4 of the Canadian Dufferin Rifles, a regiment of sharp­shooters. In fraternal societies, he first be­came a member of the Sons of Temperance, and next of Gore Lodge No. 34, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Brantford. Ontario, ad­vancing to the Patriarchal Encampment and receiving the Royal Purple degree in Brant Encampment No. .~. He is a social member and tent physician of Mentor Tent No. 241, of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World; is also a member of Mentor Avenue Lodge No. 639. Knights of Pythias. and a past chancellor of that Castle Hall. From this he went into Columbian Company No. 4. Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and is now assistant surgeon
of the Second Ohio Regiment. In this order he is also a member Jan Ben Jan Temple No. 27, Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Being naturally averse to weakness, disease and diseased conditions, Dr. Lowe took up the healing art as an avocation. He was not guided by any family physician, for a physician had- not been in the house ten times in rearing ten children. On entering the fight against disease he soon found that there were many theories with reference to cure, that each had a re­spectable following, and each was attended with some degree of success; but in none did he find an exact science, except in surgery. After some investigation and observation, he decided that in the science of electro-therapeutics-­tics, as taught by the Philadelphia school, with a branch at Brantford, Ontario, there was pre­sented to him what seemed to he the most logical explanation as the first cause of dis­ease. He therefore entered the Brantford Electropathic Institute, and graduated in 1882. In 1883 he left Canada and located in Midland City, Michigan, where be opened an office and cured the afflicted by the use of the various forms of electricity, coupled with Dr. J. H.. Kellogg's hydrotherapy. While there he edited and published a journal, in newspaper style, known as The Electric Times. Being de­sirous of a larger field, after two years of ex­perience, he removed to Bay City, Michigan. Before getting established, he was offered a position in the British-American Medical and Surgical Institute at Detroit, Michigan, and accepted the proposition. For two years he had charge of the electropathic, oxygen and vacuum treatment departments. He also figured in other departments of the institute, where he gained much valuable information that has been of practical benefit to him since. While there he gave attention to the eclectic system of cure, passed an examination before the state board of censors and was admitted to the Michigan State Medical and Surgical Society of the Eclectic School of Medicine. He next spent two years in the study of the homeopathic method of treatment, for six months of this time he had charge of the ho­meopathic laboratory in the British-American Medical and Surgical Institute, under J. D. Kergan, M. D.. professor of materia medica in the Detroit Homeopathic Medical College. Learning that a new school with advanced theories had been established at Rutland, Ver­mont, known as the Vermont Medical Col­lege, he took a special course of studies there,. and graduated in 1889. Desiring to locate on the Western Reserve he opened an office at 1o98 Pearl street, Cleveland, Ohio, until a bet­ter opportunity presented itself. The death of Dr. C. B. Bixby, at Mentor, opened a field for a physician at. that point, he decided to venture, make Mentor his home, and grow up with the town. He now enjoys a lucrative practice, in addition to conducting the only medical supply store in the place. He is a member of Lake County Medical Society, in which he served as secretary for nearly three terms. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cleve­land, the State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Health League, and an active (i9oS) member of the International Congress of Tuberculosis. On March 9, 1899, he was appointed examining surgeon for the Bureau of Pensions at Painesville, Ohio, and was a member of the National Association of United States Pension Examin­ing Surgeons. He is now medical examiner for the United States Marine Corps in the re­cruiting district of Pittsburg. and also holds examiners commissions for the Royal Tem­plars of Temperance, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society, the Canada Life As­surance Company, the Metropolitan Life Insur­ance Company, the Reliance Life Insurance Company, the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Home Life Insurance Company, the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Com­pany and the John Hancock Mutual Life In­surance Company, in addition to making ex­aminations for the Equitable Life Insurance Company, the Manhattan Life Insurance Com­pany, the Union Mutual and the Fidelity and Casualty Company. He is one of the staff physicians of Painesville Hospital, and lecturer to the class of nurses in training. Dr. Lowe is also member of the United States Press Writers League. He first began as a news­paper correspondent in 1878, contributing to the Brant Union, of Brantford, Ontario, and has continued to use his pen in newspaper work ever since. At present he is Mentor's local correspondent for the Cleveland Leader and Press, the Painesville Telegraph-Republican, the Willoughby Independent and the Chagrin Falls Exponent. His most important newspaper contributions were letters to the Painesviile Telegraph-Republican descriptive of Southern California, where he spent one winter; an article on the “Importance of
Hygiene; “ an attack on “Professor Koch's bacillus; “ “Dreaded Smal1pox, and some ar­ticles to the Cleveland Leader on “Medical Legislation.” -
As a citizen, Dr. Lowe has always taken an active part in whatever seemed to promise ad­vancement, and has served on the council and as mayor, and president of the board of edu­cation. He was one of the promoters of the Mentor Telephone Company and served as president for the first five years of its existence. He launched the Mentor Lake Front Park idea and championed it to a successful issue. In fact the only public movement in which he was ever thoroughly defeated, was his first effort for a Central Union High School at Mentor. At present he is health officer for Mentor and Mentor township. He is also one of the di­rectors of the Eagle Copper-Gold Mining Com­pany of Wickenburg, Arizona. As a Canadian he was a Reformer in politics. In Michigan, he was a member of the Prohibition party, working for St. John and Daniels. On coming to Ohio he was soon convinced that the Re­publican party dominated in strength of states­tatesmanship and was rendering the most reliable service to their country. He was president of the McKinley club at Mentor during the campaign against free silver and is still a loyal supporter of that political party. In religion. He has always been a Methodist. He united with the church at the age of twenty and has held official positions in that denomination ever since, having been superintendent of Sunday school both in Brantford and at Midland City. At Mentor he has been secretary and treas­urer of the Methodist Episcopal church for more than fifteen years, and was one of the ac­tive workers in the recent erection of a new brick church building. He so arranges his professional duties as to be in attendance at preaching services nearly every Sunday morn­ing and evening.
By his own efforts the doctor has paid for and improved his place of residence, which is central and regarded as one of the most de­sirable locations in the town. He also has a cottage lot in the original forest at Salida, on the bank of Lake Erie, and some real estate at Findlay, Ohio. In order to keep himself in­formed and be abreast of the times, in all fields of knowledge he takes three leading newspapers of the county, the Cleveland Daily Leader, Lit­erary Digest, five medical journals, three pop­ular magazines and his church paper, the NewYork Christi-an Advocate. His medical library is made up of the highest and most scientific books obtainable and in his profession, he is a deep and tireless student.
Dr. J. W. Lowe is a married man and has one daughter. The maiden name of his wife was Jennie B. Ackley. She was born at North Bloomfield, Trumbull county, Ohio, and is a descendant of a long line of American ances­tors, many of whom were eminent in the early history of the country. Her parents, Walter Scott and Martha Howe (Green) Ackley, are still living and residents of Geneva, Ohio.