Young Men Who Overcame (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... V WALTER LOWRIE A GENTLEMAN OF STRENGTH WALTER LOWRIE inherited his name from his grandfather, the Hon. Walter Lowrie, who represented the State of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1818 to 1824, and who resigned the position of Secretary of the Senate of the United States in 1836, to accept the position of Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. The grandfather died in 1868, having for thirty-two years served as Secretary of the Board. Three of his sons went as foreign missionaries--Walter M. Lowrie, who was killed by pirates when crossing from Shanghai to Ningpo, in 1847; Reuben Lowrie, who worked in China for six years, and whose widow and son are still missionaries at Paotingfu, and John C. Lowrie, whose health required him to return from India in 1836, and who then became with his father a Secretary of the Board, dying in Orange in 1900, at the age of eighty-two. Another son, J. Roberts Lowrie, was the father of Walter, of whom this sketch is written. Walter's mother was Miss Matilda Hamill Nassau, sister of Dr. Nassau and Miss Isabel Nassau, who have been missionaries in Africa for more than a generation. On both sides, accordingly, Walter Lowrie inherited the deepest missionary spirit and the truest Christian character. His grandfather was one of the great men of the Church, trusted and beloved of all, a man of solid judgment, of far-seeing faith. His father was a lawyer whose health forbade active practice, but who took charge of the business of the firm of Lyon, Shorb & Co., at that time the largest iron manufacturing firm in the United States. To be in the midst of his work he selected a beautiful spot at Warriorsmark, in Huntingdon County, and there spent his spare hours with books and plants. When once he visited t...