Ex-Governor Lowe's Death

Ex-Governor Lowe's Death. — Ex-Governor Enoch Louis Lowe, who died in Brooklyn N.Y., yesterday, aged seventy-two years, figured in important relations to the State of Maryland and its people at an interesting period of our history. He was the democratic Governor of Maryland, elected for three years in 1850, when the public mind was busy with the great reform movement, which culminated in the adoption of the constitution of 1851. He took an active part in this movement, in which whigs and democrats finally united, laying aside prejudices for the promotion of liberal and popular government. Governor Lowe's election, however was a hotly contested campaign and a close vote. His success was due in large part to the personal magnetism of the man, and to his personal popularity with the struggling democracy. He was, perhaps, the greatest stump speaker of his day, and well suited the time in which he figured. Honors were showered upon him. He was appreciated by the administration at Washington as is evidenced by his appointment as minister of China, which he declined. He was a Breckinridge elector of Maryland in 1860, and when the war came on he cast his lot with the South, remaining “in Dixie” until peace was declared. In 1866 he removed to Brooklyn, where he continued until his death in the practice of his profession with honor and success. Few young men ever had a more brilliant career in this State than Enoch Louis Lowe, who was nominated for Governor before he had attained the age required under the then existing constitution. He had the advantage of collegiate training abroad, winning speech an clear-cut State's rights, patriotic principles.

Ex-Governor Lowe's Death, The Baltimore Sun, August 24, 1892.