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Nationality (legal) American. Occupation (s) Businessman and founder of Lowell institute. Parent (s) Francis Cabot Lowell and Hannah Jackson Lowell. John Lowell Jr. (May 11, 1799 – March 4, 1836) was an American businessman, early philanthropist, and through his will, founder of the Lowell Institute .
John Lowell Jr., 1769–1840. John Lowell Jr. (October 6, 1769 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – March 12, 1840 in Boston) was an American lawyer and influential member of the Federalist Party in the early days of the United States of America.
Francis Cabot Lowell, John’s father, was the founder of cotton manufacturing in the United States. The Boston Manufacturing Company is considered the first large American manufacturing corporation, a prototype. John was a sickly child who was not happy at Harvard, so he left after two years to travel to Indonesia and India.
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John Lowell, Jr. was a successful merchant and the eldest son of textile manufacturing pioneer Francis Cabot Lowell. At the age of 16, Lowell dropped out of Harvard and chose to pursue his passion for travel. Over the next two years he visited India twice, following the routes of Marco Polo.
The Power of Knowledge. Chaim M. Rosenberg. This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education. Details. Author. TOC. Lexington Books. Pages: 324 • Trim: 6½ x 9.
Born in Boston in 1799, John Lowell Jr. was the first-born child of Francis Cabot Lowell and his wife Hannah. He received much of his early education in Edinburgh while his father was discovering the British secrets of spinning and weaving cotton using water-powered machinery.
In tracing the origin of University Extension at Harvard, one ultimately is led to John Lowell, Jr., who was born to Francis Cabot Lowell and Hannah Jackson in 1799 in Boston. John, Jr., as he was called, had been named for his grandfather, the patriarch John Lowell (1743-1802) who had married Susanna Cabot (1754-1777).
