1778 John Lowell 1802
Son of Rev. John Lowell and Sarah Champney;
born, Newbury, June 17, 1743;
Harvard College, 1760;
lawyer, Newburyport and Boston;
one of selectmen, and of Committee of Safety of Newburyport;
representative and senator;
member of convention to frame constitution of Massachusetts, 1779;
delegate to Continental Congress, 1782-83;
judge of U. S. Court of Appeals, and of U. S. District Court of Massachusetts;
chief justice of U. S. Circuit Court;
died, Roxbury, May 6, 1802.
LL.D., Harvard, 1792, and Fellow;
a founder of American Academy;
member of American Philosophical Society;
father of Francis Cabot Lowell, Phillips Academy, 1786, and Rev. Charles Lowell, 1792;
grandfather of James Russell Lowell.