Low, Nathaniel (1792-1884)

Name:

Low, Nathaniel (1792-1884)

Born:

04/04/1792

Birthplace:

South Berwick, ME

Died:

04/02/1884

Residence:

South Berwick, ME 1792-1805
Hanover, NH
Portland, ME 1825-
Dover, NH 1831-1884

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Physician
Wrote for the Kennebunk Gazette under name Philo and also the Independent Statesman.
Continued his father's almanac.
Editor of the American Patriot newspaper in Portland, Maine.
Postmaster, City of Portland, ME, 1827-1829
Postmaster, City of Dover, 1863-1865
Member, New Hampshire Medical Society, 1831-
Member, Strafford District Medical Society
Publisher of U.S. Laws.
Member, Maine House of Representatives, 1825
Secretary, Maine State Senate
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1846, 1847

Father:

Low, Nathaniel (1740-1808)

Mother:

Carr, Sarah

Relations:

Father of Nathaniel Low, Jr. and Sarah Low, who both served in the Civil War.
Father-in-law of George Seward Ffrost.

Spouse:

Married Mary Anna Hale (1798-1882), November 18, 1818, Dover, NH

Children:

William, born 1819
Sarah, born February 2, 1830, Civil War nurse 1862-1865, d. 1913)
Alexander (1833-1911)
Lydia
Mary Sheafe (1837?)
Nathaniel Jr. (1838-1890, Civil War soldier)
Martha Ann Hale (b. 06/13/1841, m. George Seward Ffrost, Frost Homestead in Durham, NH, d. 09/20/1925)

Notes:

Papers in NHHS Library collections.
Dover Public Library has a family genealogy of the Lows.

George T. Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College... (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1867), 143.

John R. Ham, The Dover, (N.H.) Physicians. Read Before the New Hampshire Medical Society, June 17, 1879. (Concord, New Hampshire: Evans, Sleeper & Evans, 1879), 10.

John Wentworth, The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. Volume II. (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company, 1878), 76.