The Lawrence Daily Gazette, 12 Sep 1893, Tuesday
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lowther, a boy yesterday.
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The Chase County Courant, Sep 1893, Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. Lowther are the happy parents of a boy that came to their Lawrence home last week.
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The Chase County Courant, 28 Sep 1893, Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lowther, formerly of this city, but now of Lawrence, are the happy parents of a brand-new boy.
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El Dorado Daily Republican, 04 Jun 1917, Monday
REPUBLICAN ADDS TO FORCE OWING TO INCREASED BUSINESS
Owing to largely increased business the Republican has added to the force, Gene Lowther, who has been with W. A. White's Emporia Gazette for some time, commenced work on this paper today. Mr. Lowther will help out on all lines of the paper, being efficient. At present, he will solicit job work and advertising and edit the Associated Press. Any favor the public may show Mr. Lowther will be appreciated by the Republican.
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, 07 Jun 1917, Thursday
William Allen White has just bestowed the Ph. D. of the Emporia Gazette School of Journalism on another promising graduate, Eugene Lowther, who goes to the El Dorado Republican.
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El Dorado Daily Republican, 21 Jul 1917, Saturday
Eugene, advertising man on the Republican is spending the week end at his home in Emporia.. Mr. Lowther is in the draft but is so far advanced in the drawing that he will probably not be recalled.
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The Emporia Gazette, 28 Jun 1969, Saturday
Eugene T. Lowther
Eugene T. Lowther, Editor Emeritus of The Emporia Gazette, and a newspaperman since his grade school days, died Friday night in Newman Memorial County Hospital. Mr. Lowther started as a Gazette carrier when he was a seventh grade student, contributed items when he was a high school student and became a part-time reporter while a student at the University of Kansas. He was on the staff of the El Dorado Republican for a brief period before World War I, then returned after the war, with a distinguished record of military service, to The Gazette. Since then he had served as reporter, advertising manager, editor, business manager and co-publisher. In recent years, since his retirement, he has written a great deal of feature material, much of it concerning the historical background of Emporia, and he has compiled the "Smiles" column.
Mr. Lowther was born Sept. 12, 1893, in Lawrence, the son of Lloyd A. and Lauretta Thistle Lowther, and he came with his parents in 1897 to Emporia, where his father was superintendent of city schools until his retirement in 1935. Eugene Thistle Lowther was married to Isobel Milne on Sept. 3, 1928, in Atchison. He attended the Union Grade School and Emporia High School and he was a student at the College of Emporia before he entered the University of Kansas, where he was graduated in 1916.
In his newspaper career, which spanned more than 60 years, he had been involved in every facet of the business. Starting as a carrier boy and a high school news writer, he later became a reporter, then during subsequent years was advertising manager, business manager, and co-publisher. He had been an editorial writer for many years and had written a number of feature articles, many of them based on a study of early-day Emporia history. He had been a regular contributor since his retirement.
Mr. Lowther's career was interrupted during World War I, when he went into active service with Emporia's Company L [35th Division, 137th Infantry]. He was a corporal, then a sergeant and served abroad until the Armistice was signed. He remained in France for a year after the close of the war in order to take a post-graduate course at Sorbonne University in Paris.
E.T. Lowther was a 50-year member of the Ball-McColm Post of the American Legion and he had been a trustee for many years of the William Allen White Foundation. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Rotary Club, the Current Club and Emporia Masonic Lodge 12, A.F. and A.M., and he had been a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity while an undergraduate student.
He is survived by his wife [Isobel J. Milne], of the home, 807 Sherwood Way; one son, James Eugene Lowther, Emporia; one sister, Miss Kathleen Lowther, Oklahoma City, OK; and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Anne Lowther.
Funeral services will be at 8 p.m. Monday in the Blair Colonial Chapel. They will be conducted by the Rev. Samuel B. Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The casket will be open in the funeral home this evening, Sunday and Monday morning, but it will not be open during the services. Members of the family have announced that a memorial fund has been established in the Emporia Public Library.
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Emporia Gazette, Tuesday, July 1, 1969; p. 6, c. 8
The Lowther Funeral
Funeral services for Eugene T. Lowther, 807 Sherwood Way, who died Friday in Newman Memorial County Hospital were held Monday afternoon in the Blair Colonial Chapel. They were conducted by the Rev. Samuel B. Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Edwin L. Stuntzner was the cello soloist and Mrs. Thomas Eddy was the organist. The active pallbearers were Ray Call, Theodore F. McDaniel, Arthur Musgrave, George Pester, Paul Palmer and Kenneth Williams and the honorary pallbearers were Everette Barr, Calvin Lambert, Charles E. Lawrence, Leopold Liegl, Warren Morris, Russell Roberts, W.E. Teichgraeber and P.R. Woodbury. Members of the Emporia Rotary Club, members of Ball-McColm Post 5 of the American Legion and personnel and employes of The Gazette attended in groups. Burial was in Memorial Lawn.
Relatives who attended from out of town were Miss Kathleen Lowther, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mrs. Frank Jilka, Herington; and Mrs. F. L. Thompson, McPherson.
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Fold3 Military Records
Lowther, Eugene Thistle
Name: Lowther, Eugene Thistle
Age: [Blank]
Residence: Emporia, Kansas
Address: 617 Exchange St
Contact Name: Lowther, Lloyd a
Relationship: Father
Regiment: 137th Inf
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1,448,657
Departure Date: 25 Apr 1918
Departure Place: New York, New York
Departure Age: [Blank]
Arrival Date: [Blank]
Arrival Place: [Blank]
Arrival Age: [Blank]
Other Date: [Blank]
Conflict Period: World War I
Served For: United States of America
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Fold3 Military Records
Lowther, Eugene T
Name: Lowther, Eugene T
Age: [Blank]
Residence: Emporia Kansas
Address: 617 Exchange Street
Contact Name: Lowther, Lloyd A
Relationship: Father
Regiment: Co G 137th Inf
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1448657
Departure Date: 7 Jul 1919
Departure Place: Brest, France
Departure Age: [Blank]
Arrival Date: 13 Jul 1919
Arrival Place: Hoboken, New Jersey
Arrival Age: [Blank]
Other Date: [Blank]
Conflict Period: World War I
Served For: United States of America
The Lawrence Daily Gazette, 12 Sep 1893, Tuesday
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lowther, a boy yesterday.
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The Chase County Courant, Sep 1893, Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. Lowther are the happy parents of a boy that came to their Lawrence home last week.
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The Chase County Courant, 28 Sep 1893, Thursday
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lowther, formerly of this city, but now of Lawrence, are the happy parents of a brand-new boy.
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El Dorado Daily Republican, 04 Jun 1917, Monday
REPUBLICAN ADDS TO FORCE OWING TO INCREASED BUSINESS
Owing to largely increased business the Republican has added to the force, Gene Lowther, who has been with W. A. White's Emporia Gazette for some time, commenced work on this paper today. Mr. Lowther will help out on all lines of the paper, being efficient. At present, he will solicit job work and advertising and edit the Associated Press. Any favor the public may show Mr. Lowther will be appreciated by the Republican.
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The Wichita Daily Eagle, 07 Jun 1917, Thursday
William Allen White has just bestowed the Ph. D. of the Emporia Gazette School of Journalism on another promising graduate, Eugene Lowther, who goes to the El Dorado Republican.
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El Dorado Daily Republican, 21 Jul 1917, Saturday
Eugene, advertising man on the Republican is spending the week end at his home in Emporia.. Mr. Lowther is in the draft but is so far advanced in the drawing that he will probably not be recalled.
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The Emporia Gazette, 28 Jun 1969, Saturday
Eugene T. Lowther
Eugene T. Lowther, Editor Emeritus of The Emporia Gazette, and a newspaperman since his grade school days, died Friday night in Newman Memorial County Hospital. Mr. Lowther started as a Gazette carrier when he was a seventh grade student, contributed items when he was a high school student and became a part-time reporter while a student at the University of Kansas. He was on the staff of the El Dorado Republican for a brief period before World War I, then returned after the war, with a distinguished record of military service, to The Gazette. Since then he had served as reporter, advertising manager, editor, business manager and co-publisher. In recent years, since his retirement, he has written a great deal of feature material, much of it concerning the historical background of Emporia, and he has compiled the "Smiles" column.
Mr. Lowther was born Sept. 12, 1893, in Lawrence, the son of Lloyd A. and Lauretta Thistle Lowther, and he came with his parents in 1897 to Emporia, where his father was superintendent of city schools until his retirement in 1935. Eugene Thistle Lowther was married to Isobel Milne on Sept. 3, 1928, in Atchison. He attended the Union Grade School and Emporia High School and he was a student at the College of Emporia before he entered the University of Kansas, where he was graduated in 1916.
In his newspaper career, which spanned more than 60 years, he had been involved in every facet of the business. Starting as a carrier boy and a high school news writer, he later became a reporter, then during subsequent years was advertising manager, business manager, and co-publisher. He had been an editorial writer for many years and had written a number of feature articles, many of them based on a study of early-day Emporia history. He had been a regular contributor since his retirement.
Mr. Lowther's career was interrupted during World War I, when he went into active service with Emporia's Company L [35th Division, 137th Infantry]. He was a corporal, then a sergeant and served abroad until the Armistice was signed. He remained in France for a year after the close of the war in order to take a post-graduate course at Sorbonne University in Paris.
E.T. Lowther was a 50-year member of the Ball-McColm Post of the American Legion and he had been a trustee for many years of the William Allen White Foundation. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Rotary Club, the Current Club and Emporia Masonic Lodge 12, A.F. and A.M., and he had been a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity while an undergraduate student.
He is survived by his wife [Isobel J. Milne], of the home, 807 Sherwood Way; one son, James Eugene Lowther, Emporia; one sister, Miss Kathleen Lowther, Oklahoma City, OK; and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Anne Lowther.
Funeral services will be at 8 p.m. Monday in the Blair Colonial Chapel. They will be conducted by the Rev. Samuel B. Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The casket will be open in the funeral home this evening, Sunday and Monday morning, but it will not be open during the services. Members of the family have announced that a memorial fund has been established in the Emporia Public Library.
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Emporia Gazette, Tuesday, July 1, 1969; p. 6, c. 8
The Lowther Funeral
Funeral services for Eugene T. Lowther, 807 Sherwood Way, who died Friday in Newman Memorial County Hospital were held Monday afternoon in the Blair Colonial Chapel. They were conducted by the Rev. Samuel B. Maier, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Edwin L. Stuntzner was the cello soloist and Mrs. Thomas Eddy was the organist. The active pallbearers were Ray Call, Theodore F. McDaniel, Arthur Musgrave, George Pester, Paul Palmer and Kenneth Williams and the honorary pallbearers were Everette Barr, Calvin Lambert, Charles E. Lawrence, Leopold Liegl, Warren Morris, Russell Roberts, W.E. Teichgraeber and P.R. Woodbury. Members of the Emporia Rotary Club, members of Ball-McColm Post 5 of the American Legion and personnel and employes of The Gazette attended in groups. Burial was in Memorial Lawn.
Relatives who attended from out of town were Miss Kathleen Lowther, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Mrs. Frank Jilka, Herington; and Mrs. F. L. Thompson, McPherson.
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Fold3 Military Records
Lowther, Eugene Thistle
Name: Lowther, Eugene Thistle
Age: [Blank]
Residence: Emporia, Kansas
Address: 617 Exchange St
Contact Name: Lowther, Lloyd a
Relationship: Father
Regiment: 137th Inf
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1,448,657
Departure Date: 25 Apr 1918
Departure Place: New York, New York
Departure Age: [Blank]
Arrival Date: [Blank]
Arrival Place: [Blank]
Arrival Age: [Blank]
Other Date: [Blank]
Conflict Period: World War I
Served For: United States of America
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Fold3 Military Records
Lowther, Eugene T
Name: Lowther, Eugene T
Age: [Blank]
Residence: Emporia Kansas
Address: 617 Exchange Street
Contact Name: Lowther, Lloyd A
Relationship: Father
Regiment: Co G 137th Inf
Rank: Sergeant
Service Number: 1448657
Departure Date: 7 Jul 1919
Departure Place: Brest, France
Departure Age: [Blank]
Arrival Date: 13 Jul 1919
Arrival Place: Hoboken, New Jersey
Arrival Age: [Blank]
Other Date: [Blank]
Conflict Period: World War I
Served For: United States of America
