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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of William H. LOWE 

[Surnames: BREED, HOOKER, LOWE, RILEY, TODD, WRIGHT] 

LOWE, WILLIAM H. 

    
He is a prosperous and highly respected farmer of Fulton County, and an honored veteran of the Civil War. He was born in The county which has been the scene of his life-long labors on Aug. 7, 1842. he is a son of John and Isabelle (RILEY) Lowe, the former a native of Ireland and the grandson of John and Nancy (TODD) Lowe, both of whom were natives of Ireland, as was the father, John Lowe. 
    
William H. Lowe received a good practical education in the common schools of Fulton County, and was reared on the home farm. Soon after the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in Co. H., 55th Infantry Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three years, and three months at the front. He was a faithful and gallant soldier and, besides other engagements and skirmishes, took part in the battles of Shiloh and Mission Ridge, and the Siege of Vicksburg. During his last year of service he was Sergeant of his company and was honorably discharged at Chattanooga, TN, Oct. 30, 1864. After being mustered out he returned to his home in Fulton County and applied himself to farming, in which he has continued ever since with profitable results. 
    
In 1867 Mr. Lowe was united in marriage to Ann Eliza BREED, who was born in Connecticut, a daughter of Jonas and Sarah (WRIGHT) Breed, and where in girlhood she received a good education.
Five children resulted from this union, namely:
Mary I., Charles R., John H., Anna B., and J. Bernice. 
    
Politically Mr. Lowe has always been a Republican, and his party has manifested its confidence in him, and its respect for his record in war and peace, by electing him successively Highway Commissioner and Supervisor of his township. He is a member of the HOOKER Post, Grand Army of the Republic.