Lowell, Joshua
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…