Early Life
Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Anna Cabot Jackson Lowell, a daughter of Patrick Tracy Jackson, married Charles Russell Lowell, Sr., the eldest son of Unitarian Minister, Rev. Charles Lowell and brother of James Russell Lowell. She wrote verse and books on education. Lowell graduated as the valedictorian from Harvard College in 1854, and worked in an iron mill in Trenton, New Jersey, for a few months in 1855. He spent two years abroad, and from 1858 to 1860 was local treasurer of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. In 1860, he took charge of the Mount Savage Iron Works in Cumberland, Maryland.
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