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CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL (1835-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL (1835-1864)  ,
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American soldier, was born on the 2nd of
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January 1835 in Boston, Massachusetts . His
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mother, Anna Cabot Jackson Lowell (1819-1874), a daughter of Patrick Tracy Jackson, married Charles Russell Lowell, a
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brother of James Russell Lowell; she wrote verse and books on
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education . Her son graduated at Harvard in 1854, worked in an iron mill in Trenton, New Jersey, for a few months in 1855, spent two years abroad, and in 1858-186o was
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local treasurer of the
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Burlington &
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Missouri
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river railroad . In 186o he took charge of the Mount Savage Iron
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Works, in Cumberland,
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Maryland . He entered the Union army in
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June 1861 (commission May 14) as captain of the 3rd (afterwards 6th) U.S. cavalry; on the 15th of
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April 1863 he became colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts cavalry; he was wounded fatally at Cedar Creek on the 19th of
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October 1864, when he was promoted brigadier-general of U.S .
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Volunteers, and died on the next day at
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Middle-
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town, Va . Lowell married in October 1863, Josephine Shaw (1843-1905), a
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sister of Colonel R . G . Shaw . Her home when she was married was on Staten Island, and she became deeply interested in the social problems of New York City . She was a member of the State Charities Aid Society, and from 1877 to 1889 was a member of the New York State Board of Charities, being the first woman appointed to that board . She founded the Charity Organization Society of New York City in 1882, and wrote Public
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Relief and Private Charity (1884) and
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Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation (1893) .

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Edward E . Emerson (ed.), The
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Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell (Boston, 1907) .

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