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John Lowell was born on October 18, 1824 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father, John Amory Lowell, was the son of John Lowell. His mother, Susan Cabot (Lowell), was the daughter of Francis Cabot Lowell.
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John Lowell was born on October 18, 1824 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His father, John Amory Lowell, was the son of John Lowell. His mother, Susan Cabot (Lowell), was the daughter of Francis Cabot Lowell.
Lowell received his early education in Boston public schools. Then he went to Harvard, graduating from the college with distinction in 1843 and from the law school in 1845. After studying in the office of Charles G. Loring, he was admitted to the Boston bar in 1846.
Lowell's early practice was in association with his brother-in-law, William Sohier and chiefly concerned trust estates. He began practice alone in 1857. The panic and his family mill connections brought him into much litigation which made him a lifelong expert in insolvency law.
In 1858 Lowell purchased a large farm at Chestnut Hill where he lived the rest of his life. Though he was a small man, not especially robust, his constant activity in walking about his land, planning its development, kept him free from any illness until shortly before his death. The beautiful grounds, with the pond, woods, and wild flowers, were by his tacit consent almost common property. From 1856 to 1860 he edited the Monthly Law Reporter (volumes XIX-XXII), assisted the last two years by S. M. Quincey. An article adversely criticizing the Dred Scott decision, by Lowell and Horace Gray, was published in the Law Reporter, June 1857, and reprinted as a pamphlet with the title, A Legal Review of the Case of Dred Scott (1857).
In March 1865, President Lincoln appointed Lowell United States district judge for Massachusetts. The enactment in 1867 of a national Bankruptcy Act, after an interval of twenty years, gave him the opportunity to display his mastery of that field. His promotion in 1878 to be circuit judge for the first circuit transferred his work to the common law and patents. He disliked patent cases at first, but soon handled them with sound common sense and an acute perception of mechanical facts. In his judicial opinions Lowell cited few cases. His wide knowledge of precedents took shape chiefly in a clear and orderly statement of principles. Every proposition was ultimately tested for its practical working value. He realized keenly the human factors of a case, and had a remarkable instinct for perceiving on which side real justice lay.
When he resigned his office in 1884, the merchants of Boston took the unusual course of giving him a public dinner in recognition of his able solution of commercial questions. They requested him to prepare a new bankruptcy act, that of 1867 having been repealed. His draft was printed but not adopted. He also wrote A Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy (2 vols. , 1899) and is still useful, although much of the author's knowledge was superseded by the Act of 1898.
After his retirement Lowell had a large practice. He did not quite cease to be a judge, for he was frequently selected as arbitrator or referee in important controversies. On the bench his uniform courtesy had often relieved a young practitioner of all embarrassment and aided him in the proper presentation of his case, and in later life his learning and experience were always at the service of younger members of the bar. He was an Overseer of Harvard, and had long service on the board of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1896 he became chairman of the commission to revise the Massachusetts tax laws.
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Lowell was a delightful conversationalist, who walked up and down as he talked. His fund of humor never failed even on the bench. A man of very strong likes and dislikes, he was consciously on guard to prevent their affecting his judicial action.
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"He would not, unless the law and the evidence compelled him, do what he thought was a practical injustice. And it seldom happened that he found himself so compelled. He had a marvellous talent for escaping from that difficulty. "
In 1853 Lowell married Lucy Buckminster Emerson of Boston, daughter of George B. Emerson and his first wife, Olivia Buckminster, who was of New Hampshire stock. They had three sons and four daughters.