Francis Cabot Lowell
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Francis Cabot Lowell, was an American businessman after whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is named. He was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States.
Profile of Francis Cabot Lowell. There are no surviving portraits of him, so this cut-paper silhouette is commonly used.
Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham, Massachusetts
John Lowell Jr. was an American businessman, early philanthropist, and through his will, founder of the Lowell Institute.
Francis Cabot Lowell
…for home consumption and for export. In 1798, Lowell married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Jonathan Jackson and Hannah Tracy. They had four children; John Lowell Jr., benefactor of Lowell Institute; businessman Francis Cabot Lowell, Jr.; Edward Lowell, a lawyer; and Susanna Lowell, who married her first cousin John…
John Lowell Jr.