Hon. Walter H. Lowrie and Rachel Thompson

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Husband Hon. Walter H. Lowrie ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

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           Born: 31 Mar 1820 - Butler Co, PA 1
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           Died: 14 Nov 1876 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Matthew B. Lowrie (      -      ) 1 3 4 5 7 8
         Mother: Sarah Emmerson (      -      ) 1

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Wife Rachel Thompson ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Walter H. Lowrie

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He was a lawyer of eminence and well-known in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was for many years judge of the courts in the commonwealth, was judge of the supreme court of the state from 1857 to 1863, six years of this time as chief justice. He was judge in the Crawford county district at the time of his decease.

Of Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he always claimed that the old farm in Butler County was his birthplace. [HBC 1883, 445]

He was admitted to the bar July 6, 1830.

He was appointed associate judge August 20, 1846, and held the office until the fall of 1851, when he was elected one of the judges of the supreme court. The five judges elected at that time were required, by the law putting in operation the elective judiciary, to cast lots for their terms, to serve, respectively, three, six, nine, twelve and fifteen years. Judge Lowrie drew the twelve-year term, which expired in 1863. After retiring from the supreme bench he practiced law in Pittsburgh for a few years, and then moved to Philadelphia. While living there, in 1870, he was elected president judge of Crawford county, and moved to Meadville. He died suddenly of heart disease; was brought to Pittsburgh, and interred in Allegheny cemetery.

1 —, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia, PA: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874), Pg 105.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part I (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 260.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 971.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 245.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 149.

6 Margaret S. Kahle, Ritchey-Lowrey Family Tree (Emlenton, PA: Self-published, 1976), Pg 26.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 445.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 674.