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Encyclopedia > Lowell

Lowell is the name of several places, families, persons, and institutions in the United States of America.

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Places named Lowell

Lowell is a city located in Benton County, Arkansas. ... Lowell is a small developing town located in Lake County, Indiana. ... Lowell is a town located in Penobscot County, Maine. ... Settled: 1653 â€“ Incorporated: 1826 Zip Code(s): 01852 â€“ Area Code(s): 351 / 978 Official website: http://www. ... Lowell is a city in Kent County of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Lowell is a city located in Gaston County, North Carolina. ... Lowell is a village located in Washington County, Ohio. ... Lowell is a city located in Lane County, Oregon, in the United States. ... Lowell, Vermont Lowell is a town located in Orleans County, Vermont. ... Lowell is a village located in Dodge County, Wisconsin. ... Lowell is a town located in Dodge County, Wisconsin. ... Lowell Point is a census-designated place located in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. ... Lowell Township is a township located in Kent County, Michigan, United States. ... Lowell Township is a township located in Polk County, Minnesota. ...

Persons named Lowell

The Lowell surname

The Lowell family was founded in America by Percival Lowle (1571–1664); his grown sons John (1595–1647) and Richard (1602–82); and his daughter, Joanna Oliver (1609–77), when their families sailed from England to the newly established settlement of Newburyport on the north shore of the Merrimack... Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston, are the blue-blooded class of New Englanders who claim hereditary and cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and settled New England. ... Abbott Lawrence Lowell, portrait by John Singer Sargent U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909–33), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943) was born to Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell at the families 10 acre estate in Brookline, MA. The Lowell... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ... Carey Lowell in Licence to Kill. Carey Lowell (born March 11, 1961 in Warrensburg, Missouri) is an American actress. ... Gere on the cover of the November 1999 issue of People magazine Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. ... Charles Russell Lowell (2 January 1835-20 October 1864), American soldier, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Combatants Union (remaining U.S. states) Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln† Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties KIA: 110,000 Total dead: 360,000 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 94,000 Total dead: 258,000 Wounded: 137,000+  The... Francis Cabot Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell (April 7, 1775 - April 10, 1817) was the American business man for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States is named. ... Settled: 1653 â€“ Incorporated: 1826 Zip Code(s): 01852 â€“ Area Code(s): 351 / 978 Official website: http://www. ... Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870-February 4, 1927) was an American architect and landscape architect. ... James Russell Lowell circa 1855. ... John Lowell ( June 17, 1743– May 6, 1802) was an American lawyer and jurist from Boston, Massachusetts. ... John Lowell, Jr. ... Lowell Institute, an educational foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., providing for free public lectures, and endowed by the bequest of $237,000 left by John Lowell, Jr. ... Mike Lowell (born February 24, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, of Cuban parents)[1] is a Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who is now a member of the Boston Red Sox. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901-present) East Division (1969-present) Major league titles World Series titles (6) 2004 â€¢ 1918 â€¢ 1916 â€¢ 1915 1912 â€¢ 1903 AL Pennants (11) 2004 â€¢ 1986 â€¢ 1975 â€¢ 1967 1946 â€¢ 1918 â€¢ 1916 â€¢ 1915 1912 â€¢ 1904 â€¢ 1903 East Division titles (5) 1995 â€¢ 1990 â€¢ 1988 â€¢ 1986 1975 Wild card berths... Norman Lowell (born July 29, 1946) is the founder and leader of Imperium Europa, a Maltese movement promoting an amalgamation of sociopolitical ideas, mainly, Pan-europeanism, Libertarianism, Nationalism, and Environmentalism. ... Percival observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory. ... The Clark Dome at Mars Hill. ... Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. ...

Lowell as a forename

Lowell Ganz (born August 31, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. ... Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. ... Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, and (apparently, among his Arab allies) Aurens or El Aurens, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. ... Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. ...

Lowell as a character name

Richard Lowell Madden, better known as Christopher Lowell (born 1955), is an interior decorator. ... Romance writer and novelist Ann Maxwell has individually, and with co-author/husband Evan, New York Times and international bestselling author, written over 50 novels and one non-fiction book. ... Lowell Mather is a character developed for the TV sitcom Wings that was portrayed and further developed by American actor Thomas Haden Church. ... Wings was a sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. ... Thomas Haden Church at the premiere of Sideways. ...

Institutions named Lowell


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Lowell, James Russell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (377 words)
Lowell’s Poems (1844, 1846), A Fable for Critics (1848), The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848), and The Bigelow Papers (1848; 2d series, 1867) brought him considerable notice as a poet and critic.
In 1855, Lowell became professor of modern languages at Harvard, a position he held until 1876.
While abroad Lowell did much to increase the respect of foreigners for American letters and American institutions; his speeches in England, published as Democracy and Other Addresses (1887), are among his best work.
Amy Lowell's Life and Career (2112 words)
Lowell enjoyed writing, and two stories she wrote during this time were printed in Dream Drops; or, Stories from Fairyland (1887), by a "Dreamer." The volume was published privately by her mother, who also contributed material, and the proceeds were donated to the Perkins Institute for the Blind.
Lowell's poems began to appear in increasing numbers in journals, and she was becoming a prolific writer of essays and reviews.
Lowell's lectures on the "new poetry" of imagism and free verse drew large crowds, and she was so persuasive that the public began accepting her literary judgments "as nothing less than gospel" (Heymann, p.214).
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