Lowell family
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The Lowell family is a Boston Brahmin family of the United States. The family was founded in America by Percival Lowell, a 1639 immigrant to Newbury, Massachusetts. Distinguished members of the family include:
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell, historian and President of Harvard University
- Amy Lowell, poet
- Charles Russell Lowell, Union General in the American Civil War
- Francis Cabot Lowell, businessman and founder of Lowell, Massachusetts
- Guy Lowell, architect and landscape designer
- James Russell Lowell, poet
- John Lowell, statesman
- Percival Lowell, astronomer and founder of Lowell Observatory
- Robert Lowell, poet