EDWARD GEORGE LOWRY

Contributed by Mary Holbrook

(Originally published in "The National Cyclopedia of American Biography", Volume XXXII by James T. White & Company, 1945 New York)

            Lowry, Edward George, journalist, was born in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24, 1875, son of George Pierce and Sarah (Ragsdale) Lowry. His father was an Atlanta merchant. His first paternal American ancestor was Edmon Lowry who came from England in the early part of the eighteenth century, settling first in Delaware and later in Maryland. From him the descent is through James Lowry who settled in Virginia; his son, William, also a Virginian, who fought in the Revolutionary War and in 1795 moved from Virginia to Georgia; James and Katherine (Dorsey) Lowry, and Basil and Emily (Yarborough) Lowry, the grandparents of Edward George Lowry. 

            He was educated at private schools and the Georgia Military Institute and from 1900 to 1902 was on the staff of the Atlanta Constitution. In 1903 he joined The New York Evening Post, of which he was Albany, N.Y. correspondent from 1903 to 1904, Washington, D.C. correspondent from 1904 to 1911, managing editor from 1911 to 1913 and again Washington, D.C. correspondent from 1913 to 1914. From 1909 to 1911, he was also political correspondent of Harper's Weekly. From the beginning of the first World War to November 1916, he was special agent of the department of state, attached to the American Embassy in London. 

            From 1917 to 1919 he was captain in the aviation section of the signal corps of the United States army, and in 1918 was assistant military attache' in London. He was with the 2d corps, A.E.F., in France and Flanders until the Armistice and then with the American occupation in Germany. For his war service, he was awarded the British Military Cross.

            During 1923-1925, he was chief editorial writer on the Philadelphia Public Ledger. While with the ledger he traveled extensively in Europe and the Near East, making a political and economic survey for that paper. In 1926 he represented the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in negotiations with European governments. In 1936 he made an extensive survey and report to the President of the United States on the economic and social problems of the sharecropper in the South. 

            Lowry was the author of "Washington Close-Ups" (1921). He was a regular contributor of articles on political and economic subjects to leading American publications both before and after the first World War, including extensive contributions on postwar conditions in Europe. 

            His clubs were the Century, of New York City, and the Cosmos, of Washington, D.C. In religion he was an Episcopalian. Lowry retired from active work in 1937 and until 1941 spent his winters in Washington, D.C., and his summers at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He was married in Montgomery, Ala., Apr. 2, 1902, to Elizabeth Winter, daughter of James Lahey, of that city and they had one son, Edward G. Lowry. His death occured in New York City, July 21, 1943.             

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