Biography

01/25/1832 - 04/23/1886

LOWRY, John Joseph, a Representative from Indiana County; born, January 25, 1832 in Armstrong County, Pa.; quartermaster, 206th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); attorney-at-law (1860-1878); elected, District Attorney, Indiana County (1862-1865); elected, prothonotary, Indiana County (1866-1872); owner and editor, Indiana Times (1878-1886); elected as Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1883 and 1885 terms; died while in office, April 23, 1886 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakland Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.