Katharine Bigelow (Lawrence) Lowell (1832 - 1895)

Born 21 Feb 1832 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Died 1 Apr 1895 at age 63 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Katharine Bigelow Lawrence was born on February 21, 1832 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, daughter of Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855) and Katharine Bigelow (1793–1860).

Katharine B Lawrence married Joseph Augustus Putnam Lowell on 1 Jun 1854 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, son of John Amory Lowell of Boston.^[1][2] They had three sons and four daughters, of whom five reached maturity. Best-known among them were:

1. Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855–1916); m Constance Savage (Keith) Lowell (1863-1954); he was a prominent astronomer and founder of Lowell Observatory.
2. Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943); m 1879 Anna Parker Lowell (1856-1930); no issue. He was of M.I.T. and Lowell Institute, wrote with scholarship on many subjects, was president of Harvard College 1909-1933, and known for his educational reforms.
3. Amy Lowell (1874–1925); unm; educated Baylor, Columbia, and Tufts; in literature at Brown and Yale; well-known American poet.

Katharine, daughter of Abbott & Katharine Bigelow, died (age 63) on 1 April 1895 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.^[3]

Katharine was mentioned on a memorial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States with a death date of 1 April 1895.^[4]

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1. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", citing Digital film/folder number: 004277243; FHL microfilm: 818097; Record number: 59; Packet letter: B, FamilySearch Record: FCSY-2LQ (accessed 1 January 2024), Katharine B Lawrence (22) marriage to Augustus Lowell (24) on 1 Jun 1854 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
2. ↑ Marriage: "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", citing Digital film/folder number: 004279778; FHL microfilm: 001433013; Record number: 138; Packet letter: F, FamilySearch Record: NW5Y-Z5L (accessed 1 January 2024) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-X9R9-4TF Image number 00074.
3. ↑ Death: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", citing Page: 2998; Digital film/folder number: 004273122; FHL microfilm: 594212; Image number: 1028; Packet letter: A; Indexing batch: I00776-9, FamilySearch Record: FHSL-KB8 (accessed 1 January 2024) FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-99QY-Z3H3, Katharine B Lawrence Lowell death 1 Apr 1895 (age 63), daughter of Abbott & Katharine Bigelow, wife of Augustus, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
4. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image), Find A Grave: Memorial #140770157 (accessed 1 January 2024), Memorial page for Katharine Bigelow Lawrence Lowell (21 Feb 1832-1 Apr 1895), citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA (plot: BELLWORT PATH, Lot 3401, Space 3); Maintained by Jacki Earp, Weymouth, Massachusetts (contributor 47755371).

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/108325502/person/160065029889/facts : accessed 6 January 2018), profile for Katherine Bigelow Lawrence.
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megen/reunion/wc123/wc123_270.html

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2. Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
3. Who Was Who in America, published 1963;
4. Who Was Who in America, Fifth Printing;
5. Scribners Sons, Dictionary of America Biography, Supplement 3, published 1973;
6. Parker in America; "Samuel Lawrence, b Groton 1714; m Susannah Parker; ch. Abbot Lawrence b. 1792, m Katharine Bigelow; res Andover, MA"