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John Strange Lower, 2nd born son of Jacob and Nancy (Price) Lower, was a doctor and druggist. He spent much of his life traveling through portions of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio treating the sick and selling his mixtures. He married first Mary Hamilton and with her had a son and daughter. She passed and in 1848, he married Sabina Jane (Dunlap) Roberts, who was recently widowed (and pregnant) wife of John S. Roberts. Together, John S. Lower and Sabina Jane had six sons, many of who began druggists.
Family records indicate J. S. Lower was an assistant surgeon for the Union Army in Ohio but this has not been confirmed through other sources. He died in Cairo and was interred at Elmwood near a son who had died young.
The story related by one of a son, George H Lower, and documented in Rev Joseph Leaney Lower's book on the Lower Family states:
"...after father [J. S. Lower] graduated in medicine he removed South, returning North subsequently, and then going to Shreveport still later... the family...compelled to join in the general flight from Shreveport by the epidemic of cholera in 1854, going back to Cincinnati. Father was the only physician aboard the steamboat making the trip ...up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to a safer locality.
From stories related often in years after by father and mother, he saved the lives of every one of the several hundred passengers and members of the crew on board. He would stand the passengers and crew up in a line down the cabin of the steamer at stated intervals throughout the day and night and administer to them his cholera remedy, a copy of which we still have, written in his own hand."
John Strange Lower, 2nd born son of Jacob and Nancy (Price) Lower, was a doctor and druggist. He spent much of his life traveling through portions of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio treating the sick and selling his mixtures. He married first Mary Hamilton and with her had a son and daughter. She passed and in 1848, he married Sabina Jane (Dunlap) Roberts, who was recently widowed (and pregnant) wife of John S. Roberts. Together, John S. Lower and Sabina Jane had six sons, many of who began druggists.
Family records indicate J. S. Lower was an assistant surgeon for the Union Army in Ohio but this has not been confirmed through other sources. He died in Cairo and was interred at Elmwood near a son who had died young.
The story related by one of a son, George H Lower, and documented in Rev Joseph Leaney Lower's book on the Lower Family states:
"...after father [J. S. Lower] graduated in medicine he removed South, returning North subsequently, and then going to Shreveport still later... the family...compelled to join in the general flight from Shreveport by the epidemic of cholera in 1854, going back to Cincinnati. Father was the only physician aboard the steamboat making the trip ...up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to a safer locality.
From stories related often in years after by father and mother, he saved the lives of every one of the several hundred passengers and members of the crew on board. He would stand the passengers and crew up in a line down the cabin of the steamer at stated intervals throughout the day and night and administer to them his cholera remedy, a copy of which we still have, written in his own hand."
Unmarked grave
John Strange Lower, 2nd born son of Jacob and Nancy (Price) Lower, was a doctor and druggist. He spent much of his life traveling through portions of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio treating the sick and selling his mixtures. He married first Mary Hamilton and with her had a son and daughter. She passed and in 1848, he married Sabina Jane (Dunlap) Roberts, who was recently widowed (and pregnant) wife of John S. Roberts. Together, John S. Lower and Sabina Jane had six sons, many of who began druggists.
Family records indicate J. S. Lower was an assistant surgeon for the Union Army in Ohio but this has not been confirmed through other sources. He died in Cairo and was interred at Elmwood near a son who had died young.
The story related by one of a son, George H Lower, and documented in Rev Joseph Leaney Lower's book on the Lower Family states:
"...after father [J. S. Lower] graduated in medicine he removed South, returning North subsequently, and then going to Shreveport still later... the family...compelled to join in the general flight from Shreveport by the epidemic of cholera in 1854, going back to Cincinnati. Father was the only physician aboard the steamboat making the trip ...up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to a safer locality.
From stories related often in years after by father and mother, he saved the lives of every one of the several hundred passengers and members of the crew on board. He would stand the passengers and crew up in a line down the cabin of the steamer at stated intervals throughout the day and night and administer to them his cholera remedy, a copy of which we still have, written in his own hand."
John Strange Lower, 2nd born son of Jacob and Nancy (Price) Lower, was a doctor and druggist. He spent much of his life traveling through portions of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio treating the sick and selling his mixtures. He married first Mary Hamilton and with her had a son and daughter. She passed and in 1848, he married Sabina Jane (Dunlap) Roberts, who was recently widowed (and pregnant) wife of John S. Roberts. Together, John S. Lower and Sabina Jane had six sons, many of who began druggists.
Family records indicate J. S. Lower was an assistant surgeon for the Union Army in Ohio but this has not been confirmed through other sources. He died in Cairo and was interred at Elmwood near a son who had died young.
The story related by one of a son, George H Lower, and documented in Rev Joseph Leaney Lower's book on the Lower Family states:
"...after father [J. S. Lower] graduated in medicine he removed South, returning North subsequently, and then going to Shreveport still later... the family...compelled to join in the general flight from Shreveport by the epidemic of cholera in 1854, going back to Cincinnati. Father was the only physician aboard the steamboat making the trip ...up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to a safer locality.
From stories related often in years after by father and mother, he saved the lives of every one of the several hundred passengers and members of the crew on board. He would stand the passengers and crew up in a line down the cabin of the steamer at stated intervals throughout the day and night and administer to them his cholera remedy, a copy of which we still have, written in his own hand."
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