William Lowell Putnam
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William Lowell Putnam II was an American lawyer and banker.
William Lowell Putnam ca. 1880-1890
Percival Lowell
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Percival Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar Syst
William Lowell Putnam
…He graduated from Harvard in 1882, and proceeded to make a professional name for himself in legal and financial circles. Even before his marriage to Percival Lowell's sister, Elizabeth, in 1888, Putnam (who was also Percival's half third cousin) handled a large part of the Lowell family's finances, thus leaving…
Lowell in 1904
The special mission, before departing to the United States. Lowell is seated on the bottom right (1883).
Martian canals depicted by Percival Lowell
Percival Lowell in 1914, observing Venus in the daytime with the 24-inch (61 cm) Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope at Flagstaff, Arizona