History of Ionia County, Michigan: her people, industries and
institutions, with biographical sketches of representaive citizens, and genealogical records of many of the old families, by Rev. Elam E. Branch, 1916. Transcription from University of Michigan (on-line):
EBENEZER N. LOWREY, pg 416, 417:
Ebenezer N. Lowrey, well-known citizen of Berlin township, Ionia
county, Michigan, and proprietor of "Lowtanlee Farm" of two hundred
and forty acres, in sections 27 and 28, of that township, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, on January 7, 1842, being a son of Norton, and Jane (McMullen) Lowrey. She was a native of Ohio, her people moving in
later years to Trumbull county, where she and Norton Lowrey were married. He was born in Ohio.
Norton Lowrey was a prosperous farmer in Ohio, but desiring to go
into the west, he moved to Wells county, Indiana, near the town of Ossian where the family lived for two years. They then disposed of that farm and came to Ionia county, Michigan, arriving here in the year 1858. In this county Norton Lowrey and his wife passed their remaining days. There were originally six children in the family, four of them still surviving. John, who lives in Lake Odessa, served for a short time in the Civil War; Ebenezer N.; Sirona is the widow of James Mustgove; Jennie is the wife of Nate Hubbell, of Saranac; Archibald died at the front during the Civil War, and another child died in infancy. Norton Lowrey became one of the leading citizens of Ionia county, for, being a man of liberal education and broad views, he contributed in no small degree to the general development of his section. Politically, he was a stanch supporter of the Republican party...
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