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

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

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