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Joseph Macauley Lowe was born in Pendleton County,
Kentucky, December 13, 1844, both father and mother before him having
been born in Kentucky. His common school education was
interrupted by the call to arms, and he enlisted in the Confederate
army.
As a teacher in the school at Greenfield,
Ind., he advanced his own education and read law during every leisure
moment, finally gaining admission to the bar in 1865. In 1868 he
moved to Plattsburg, Mo., where he practiced his profession until
1883, winning so high a place in the esteem of the community that he
was elected four times to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of
Clinton county. In 1883 he came to Kansas City, where he was
ever since lived. In 1889 Judge Lowe was appointed receiver of
the National Exchange Bank, and paid depositors in full and
stockholders a handsome dividend. He has not been engaged in
active practice of his profession for some years, devoting most of his
time to the management of his own affairs. He is a staunch, but
progressive, Democrat, and a remarkably strong speaker and vigorous
writer, his addresses and articles having won him wide recognition for
ability.
He was married in 1876 to Miss Mary E.
McWilliams, of Madison County, Kentucky, and they have two children,
John Roger and Florence Marion, the latter now Mrs. Hughes Bryant.
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