Education
Lafayette College.
Lafayette College.
Lowery aligned himself with the abolitionist Free-Stater wing of the Kansas Territory government, but was forced to return east when the Border Ruffian elements gained control of the legislature. After the war he worked for various clients, being employed as general counsel for Western Union for 15 years, while being hired on the side for numerous merges and consolations in the period. Lowrey was also instrumental in the formation of the Edison Electric Light Company, and convinced Justice of the Peace Morgan to back lieutenant
He died on April 21, 1893 in New York at his Madison Avenue home from complications of gout.
Lowrey later worked for the Fremont Campaign of 1856 and during the Civil War wrote pamphlets defending President Abraham Lincoln’s expanded war powers while doing legal work for the Treasury Department. However his most famous work was defending Edison’s quadruplex telegraph and incandescent light bulb patents.
