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Permanent LinkRepresentative Jason H. Lowrey View All Years
JASON H. LOWREY was born at Lacon, Illinois, March 29, 1850, and died in Pasadena, California, March 4, 1922. Burial was in Mountain View Cemetery, Pasadena. He was with his parents in their removal to a farm in Colfax Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa, in 1868. He attended common school in Illinois and after removing to Iowa he became a student in Fort Dodge High School. For a few years he worked on farms in summers and taught school in winters. He was appointed postmaster at Pomeroy by President Arthur and served five years, but in 1886 he entered the banking and real estate business in Pomeroy. For over twenty years he was president of the Pomeroy State Bank, was mayor of Pomeroy five years, and was elected representative in 1903 and re-elected in 1906, serving in the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second general assemblies. In 1914 he removed to Pasadena, California.