Background
Lower, Christian was born on January 7, 1740 in Tulpehocken Township, Berkshire County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lower, Christian was born on January 7, 1740 in Tulpehocken Township, Berkshire County, Pennsylvania, United States.
He worked as a blacksmith and was later proprietor of an iron foundry. During the American Revolution, he served as a colonel of associated battalions in 1775 and sublieutenant in 1780. He was county commissioner of Berkshire County, Pennsylvania, from 1777 to 1779.
He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1797 to 1804.
Lower was elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress and served until his death at his home in Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania. Interment in Tulpehocken Church Burial Ground.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1783-1785, 1793, 1794, and 1796.