Bio. of Charles G. Lowery ~ son of Austin P. and Cora G. (Gilmore) Lowery
IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926
C. G. LOWERY
Charles G. Lowery, member of one of the old and prominent families of Iowa,
has won success in the investment business and fills an important place in
commercial circles of Sioux City. He was born March 5, 1873, in Marshalltown,
Iowa, and is of Scotch lineage in the paternal line. His grandfather, the
Rev. Frederick B. Lowery, was a Campbellite minister who left Virginia in 1843
and journeyed to the west, settling in Burlington, Iowa. His son, Austin P.
Lowery, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Burlington,
Iowa, and for many years was numbered among the leading attorneys of
Marshalltown, where he had removed at the close of the Civil war. During the
administration of President Garfield he was postmaster at State Center, Iowa, and in 1880 was sergeant at arms of the state legislature of Iowa. He fought for the Union during the conflict between the north and the south and was very active in the affairs of the Grand Army of the Republic. He married Cora G. Gilmore, whose parents were of Welsh extraction. They lived for a time in Binghamton, New York, and in the early '40s came with their family to Iowa, settling in Marshalltown.
Charles G. Lowery attended the public schools of State Center, Iowa, and for
two years was a student at Drake University, taking a general course. After
completing his education he was employed for some time as a traveling
salesman by a wholesale grocery house, covering Oklahoma territory. He came to Sioux City in 1914 and for five years traveled for the William Tackaberry Company,
wholesale grocers. In 1919 Mr. Lowery started out for himself, entering the investment brokerage business, and acts as local representative of Henry L. Doherty & Company and George M. Forman & Company, both of New York and
Chicago, also handling a general line of high class securities. The securities offered by these corporations comprise a diversified list of sound issues, suitable to the requirements of conservative investors, and the rapid growth of the business is due to the enterprise, good management and high ideals of its executive head.
On the 12th of May, 1923, Mr. Lowery was married, in Sioux City, to Mrs.
Elizabeth Stacer, and both are popular in social circles of the community. Mr.
Lowery has one son, C. Edward Lowery, who attended the Shattuck School at
Faribault, Minnesota, for two years, took a course in bond salesmanship with
George M. Forman & Company of Chicago, Illinois, and is now employed in his
father's office.
Mr. Lowery, is identified with the Masonic order, belonging to Oklahoma City
Lodge, No. 36, F. & A. M.; Sioux City Chapter, No. 26, R. A. M.; Sioux City
Consistory, No. 5, A. A. S. R.; Abu-Bekr Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; and Rose
Croix Chapter, No. 400, O. E. S. Mr. Lowery is a public-spirited citizen and a capable, farsighted business man, fully alive to conditions in the modern commercial world and possessing the energy, aggressiveness and resourcefulness necessary to cope with them.
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*according to the 1880 Census, his mother's name was Cora G. Lowery, born 1848 in New York, her parents born in New York