Democratic Representative to the Legislature from Howard county, was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, in 1845. In 1857 his parents moved west and settled in Winneshiek county, Iowa, where they remained two years, moving into the adjoining county of Howard in 1859, where Mr. Lowry has ever since made his home. Mr. Lowry received a good common school education, and in addition spent a year at the Beloit Business College, Wisconsin. In the fall of 1866, just after attaining his majority, he started in the drug business at New Oregon, Howard county, where he remained about a year, moving to Cresco in July. 1867, where he has carried on the drug and jewelry business since. He is an ardent Democrat and has spared neither time, labor nor money in the cause of his party. He was elected sheriff of Howard county in 1879 and re-elected in 1881 for a second term. He ran for the Legislature against Mr. Williams of Lime Springs, Howard county, in 1893, and was defeated by a small majority, the latter having promised that he would vote for high license. The records of the meeting of the last Legislature show that he did not do so. Mr. Lowry was elected this year by a plurality of 158 over his Republican opponent, Mr. J. Hendrix, and a majority of 58 over both the Republican and Prohibition candidates, at the same time that Drake, the Republican candidate for governor, received a majority of 200 in the county. This is in itself a sufficient proof of the high esteem in which Mr. Lowry is held by the people of Howard county, and also that Howard county is opposed to the present liquor laws. Mr. Lowry is a member of the Masonic order and belongs to the Lutheran church. He has a family of four boys, the oldest of whom, Fred P., a graduate of the Iowa State University school of pharmacy, assists him in his business; two are attending school here, the remaining one being too young to attend school. The legislation in which Mr. Lowry is particularly interested is the placing of the liquor traffic on a high license basis and the manufacture of it within the state. If there was any chance of electing a Democratic United States Senator, Mr. Lowry, it is said, would be in favor of Horace Boies.