Putnam County Herald December 14, 1933
Robert Witherspoon Lowe was born September 5, 1891 at Gainesboro, Tenn. He attended Cookeville schools and the Columbia Military Academy.
On March 14, 1916, he married Miss Mary Alice Whitson of Cookeville.
Mr Lowe entered the lumber business with his father in 1911, and in 1912 formed a partnership with his father and John Quarles and purchased the Cookeville Planing Mills.
In 1916 he bought the entire interest in the mill, which he sold in 1922 to Morrison Lowe and John H and Walter Whitson. Following this, Mr Lowe was in California for 3 years engaged in the hardwood flooring business. Returning to Tennessee in 1925, he purchased a farm near Cookeville and has since engaged in the real estate business, farming and stock raising. He was also in the automobile business until 1932.
Mr. Lowe, son of Mrs. Lucy Cummins Lowe and the late Gideon H. Lowe, was born in Gainesboro, a member of two pioneer and prominently connected families of his native county. Together with his parents and others of the immediate family he came to Cookeville where he had been a resident since 1904.
Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Gideon Harris Lowe; his widow, Mrs. Mary Alice Whitson Lowe; two sons, Dr. Jere Lowe and Robert W. Lowe, Jr., Cookeville; two daughters, Miss Cynthia Lowe, librarian at Washington university, St. Louis, and Miss Caroline Lowe, graduate student at Yale University, New Haven, CT; one brother, Gideon Lowe, Jr., Cookeville and two sisters, Mrs. Ralph Jared, Cookeville, and Mrs. Douglas Paschall, St. Louis.
Putnam County Herald December 14, 1933
Robert Witherspoon Lowe was born September 5, 1891 at Gainesboro, Tenn. He attended Cookeville schools and the Columbia Military Academy.
On March 14, 1916, he married Miss Mary Alice Whitson of Cookeville.
Mr Lowe entered the lumber business with his father in 1911, and in 1912 formed a partnership with his father and John Quarles and purchased the Cookeville Planing Mills.
In 1916 he bought the entire interest in the mill, which he sold in 1922 to Morrison Lowe and John H and Walter Whitson. Following this, Mr Lowe was in California for 3 years engaged in the hardwood flooring business. Returning to Tennessee in 1925, he purchased a farm near Cookeville and has since engaged in the real estate business, farming and stock raising. He was also in the automobile business until 1932.
Mr. Lowe, son of Mrs. Lucy Cummins Lowe and the late Gideon H. Lowe, was born in Gainesboro, a member of two pioneer and prominently connected families of his native county. Together with his parents and others of the immediate family he came to Cookeville where he had been a resident since 1904.
Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Gideon Harris Lowe; his widow, Mrs. Mary Alice Whitson Lowe; two sons, Dr. Jere Lowe and Robert W. Lowe, Jr., Cookeville; two daughters, Miss Cynthia Lowe, librarian at Washington university, St. Louis, and Miss Caroline Lowe, graduate student at Yale University, New Haven, CT; one brother, Gideon Lowe, Jr., Cookeville and two sisters, Mrs. Ralph Jared, Cookeville, and Mrs. Douglas Paschall, St. Louis.
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