Lt. Gad Cowles Lowrey
b. 6 May 1827 (Canaan, Litchfield Co., Connecticut, USA)
d. 4 May 1923 (Pasadena, Los Angeles Co., California, USA)
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1850 Census: Living in Lacon, Marshall Co., Illinois. ("Lowrey")
1860 Census: Living in Mineral Twp., Bureau Co., Illinois. ("Loury")
1865 Census: Living in Mineral Twp., Bureau Co., Illinois. ("Lowry")
1870 Census: Living in Iowa. ("Lowry")
1880 Census: Living in Pomeroy, Calhoun Co., Iowa. ("Lourey")
Per 1880 Census: Wagon maker, parents born in Connecticut.
Enlisted October 1862 with Union, 93rd Illinois Infantry, Company H, in Chicago.
Served as 2nd Lieutenant during Civil War; discharged 1864 due to ill health.
Lived near Mineral, Bureau Co., Illinois, until September 1868, heading to Iowa.
Came through Des Moines in Fall of 1868, then to Fort Dodge, then Pocahontas County.
Came to Iowa in Spring of 1869 to a homestead north of Pomeroy, Calhoun Co.
Moved to Pomeroy in 1878.
(Obit from Pomeroy Herald)
Info from Find a Grave, Accessed 20 November 2014.
Manufactured wagons and carriages with Abraham Smith, his brother-in-law, in Lafayette.
21 April 1878, tornado destroyed his house, also the home of his daughter, Ida, killing her.
After moving to Pomeroy in 1878, their home was destroyed by another tornado in 1893.
From IAGenWeb article.
1860 Census: Living in Mineral Twp., Bureau Co., Illinois. ("Loury")
1865 Census: Living in Mineral Twp., Bureau Co., Illinois. ("Lowry")
1870 Census: Living in Iowa. ("Lowry")
1880 Census: Living in Pomeroy, Calhoun Co., Iowa. ("Lourey")
Per 1880 Census: Wagon maker, parents born in Connecticut.
Enlisted October 1862 with Union, 93rd Illinois Infantry, Company H, in Chicago.
Served as 2nd Lieutenant during Civil War; discharged 1864 due to ill health.
Lived near Mineral, Bureau Co., Illinois, until September 1868, heading to Iowa.
Came through Des Moines in Fall of 1868, then to Fort Dodge, then Pocahontas County.
Came to Iowa in Spring of 1869 to a homestead north of Pomeroy, Calhoun Co.
Moved to Pomeroy in 1878.
(Obit from Pomeroy Herald)
Info from Find a Grave, Accessed 20 November 2014.
Manufactured wagons and carriages with Abraham Smith, his brother-in-law, in Lafayette.
21 April 1878, tornado destroyed his house, also the home of his daughter, Ida, killing her.
After moving to Pomeroy in 1878, their home was destroyed by another tornado in 1893.
From IAGenWeb article.
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