Joshua Adams Lowell (1801-1874), a U.S. Representative, was born in Thomaston on March 20, 1801. He attended the common schools, taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began his practice in East Machias in 1826.
A member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1832, 1833, 1835, and 1837, Lowell was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843). He was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Twenty-seventh Congress) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1842.
He resumed the practice of law and died in East Machias on March 13, 1874, with interment in the Village Cemetery.
Additional resources
Joshua Adams Lowell Congressional Biography: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=L000476 (accessed December 28, 2020)