John Lowell Jr. was an American businessman, early philanthropist, and through his will, founder of the Lowell Institute.
John Lowell Jr.
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.
John Lowell Jr. (philanthropist)
…was an American businessman, early philanthropist, and through his will, founder of the Lowell Institute. Lowell was the son of pioneer industrialist Francis Cabot Lowell (1775–1817), one of the founders of the Boston region's textile industry, and Hannah Jackson, sister of Patrick Tracy Jackson, another industrial…
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