Robert Horne Lower was one of several brothers who were all druggists in Hot Springs, Arkansas between the late 1880s and 1920s.
According to his daughter, Aline (Lower) Davies, he had "coal-black hair with brown eyes, olive skin and was very handsome.... He looked southern Italian which was no doubt the French influence coming from his mother's side of the family."
He studied to become a doctor..."in those days one had to study surgery and that's the reason he didn't finish his studies 'when they started cutting up bodies he couldn't do it.' so he became a druggist with knowledge of doctoring.
He had been left an orphan and was taught, along with his seven brothers, the pharmaceutical trade (they had no pharmacy schools at the time.)
For many years he worked on formulas of several very fine medicines and made some remarkable cures. Lower's (Digestive) Stomach Emulsion (the most famous) was shipped all over the US, Cuba & Alaska (1900 - 1920).
He first met Nettie Cummins when she "..was walking down the street in Hot Springs. All the girls in town were talking about the good looking young druggist who had just recently opened one of the first drug stores in Hot Springs.
Robert was standing outside his store... had the audacity to flirt with her and ask her name.. Nettie, highly insulted, ignored him and promptly told her friends she didn't see 'anything good-looking in that little dark man.'"
"He finally met Nettie through mutual friends." After marrying, they lived together with Nettie's parents until Aline Lower was ten years old [1903]. Then Robert built a very nice home about three blocks from the Cummins home at 202 Silver St. in Hot Springs, Arkansas."
Robert made a run for land in Oklahoma in a buckboard. He got the land that is now the heart of Enid, Oklahoma However, he lost it because he was unable to stay and prove-up the land the required number of years.
Robert bid on more land in Oklahoma around 1920 and purchased 160 acres 12 miles south of Lawton, Ok.
Robert H. Lower, while a druggist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, kept a photo journal of the patients and the cures he had effected with his mixtures. Most of these patients had suffered skin ailments of one type or another.
Interesting to note, perhaps, is that Robert's brother, Frank, who died infancy, died of a skin disease. This may have influenced Robert later in developing salves and other cures for skin diseases.
At the end of his life, his daughter (Frances S Lower) was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robert spent much of the last year of his life trying to develop a cure for his daughter's disease. He died of Parkinson's Disease about three months before his daughter succumbed.
According to his daughter, Aline (Lower) Davies, he had "coal-black hair with brown eyes, olive skin and was very handsome.... He looked southern Italian which was no doubt the French influence coming from his mother's side of the family."
He studied to become a doctor..."in those days one had to study surgery and that's the reason he didn't finish his studies 'when they started cutting up bodies he couldn't do it.' so he became a druggist with knowledge of doctoring.
He had been left an orphan and was taught, along with his seven brothers, the pharmaceutical trade (they had no pharmacy schools at the time.)
For many years he worked on formulas of several very fine medicines and made some remarkable cures. Lower's (Digestive) Stomach Emulsion (the most famous) was shipped all over the US, Cuba & Alaska (1900 - 1920).
He first met Nettie Cummins when she "..was walking down the street in Hot Springs. All the girls in town were talking about the good looking young druggist who had just recently opened one of the first drug stores in Hot Springs.
Robert was standing outside his store... had the audacity to flirt with her and ask her name.. Nettie, highly insulted, ignored him and promptly told her friends she didn't see 'anything good-looking in that little dark man.'"
"He finally met Nettie through mutual friends." After marrying, they lived together with Nettie's parents until Aline Lower was ten years old [1903]. Then Robert built a very nice home about three blocks from the Cummins home at 202 Silver St. in Hot Springs, Arkansas."
Robert made a run for land in Oklahoma in a buckboard. He got the land that is now the heart of Enid, Oklahoma However, he lost it because he was unable to stay and prove-up the land the required number of years.
Robert bid on more land in Oklahoma around 1920 and purchased 160 acres 12 miles south of Lawton, Ok.
Robert H. Lower, while a druggist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, kept a photo journal of the patients and the cures he had effected with his mixtures. Most of these patients had suffered skin ailments of one type or another.
Interesting to note, perhaps, is that Robert's brother, Frank, who died infancy, died of a skin disease. This may have influenced Robert later in developing salves and other cures for skin diseases.
At the end of his life, his daughter (Frances S Lower) was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robert spent much of the last year of his life trying to develop a cure for his daughter's disease. He died of Parkinson's Disease about three months before his daughter succumbed.
Robert Horne Lower was one of several brothers who were all druggists in Hot Springs, Arkansas between the late 1880s and 1920s.
According to his daughter, Aline (Lower) Davies, he had "coal-black hair with brown eyes, olive skin and was very handsome.... He looked southern Italian which was no doubt the French influence coming from his mother's side of the family."
He studied to become a doctor..."in those days one had to study surgery and that's the reason he didn't finish his studies 'when they started cutting up bodies he couldn't do it.' so he became a druggist with knowledge of doctoring.
He had been left an orphan and was taught, along with his seven brothers, the pharmaceutical trade (they had no pharmacy schools at the time.)
For many years he worked on formulas of several very fine medicines and made some remarkable cures. Lower's (Digestive) Stomach Emulsion (the most famous) was shipped all over the US, Cuba & Alaska (1900 - 1920).
He first met Nettie Cummins when she "..was walking down the street in Hot Springs. All the girls in town were talking about the good looking young druggist who had just recently opened one of the first drug stores in Hot Springs.
Robert was standing outside his store... had the audacity to flirt with her and ask her name.. Nettie, highly insulted, ignored him and promptly told her friends she didn't see 'anything good-looking in that little dark man.'"
"He finally met Nettie through mutual friends." After marrying, they lived together with Nettie's parents until Aline Lower was ten years old [1903]. Then Robert built a very nice home about three blocks from the Cummins home at 202 Silver St. in Hot Springs, Arkansas."
Robert made a run for land in Oklahoma in a buckboard. He got the land that is now the heart of Enid, Oklahoma However, he lost it because he was unable to stay and prove-up the land the required number of years.
Robert bid on more land in Oklahoma around 1920 and purchased 160 acres 12 miles south of Lawton, Ok.
Robert H. Lower, while a druggist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, kept a photo journal of the patients and the cures he had effected with his mixtures. Most of these patients had suffered skin ailments of one type or another.
Interesting to note, perhaps, is that Robert's brother, Frank, who died infancy, died of a skin disease. This may have influenced Robert later in developing salves and other cures for skin diseases.
At the end of his life, his daughter (Frances S Lower) was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robert spent much of the last year of his life trying to develop a cure for his daughter's disease. He died of Parkinson's Disease about three months before his daughter succumbed.
According to his daughter, Aline (Lower) Davies, he had "coal-black hair with brown eyes, olive skin and was very handsome.... He looked southern Italian which was no doubt the French influence coming from his mother's side of the family."
He studied to become a doctor..."in those days one had to study surgery and that's the reason he didn't finish his studies 'when they started cutting up bodies he couldn't do it.' so he became a druggist with knowledge of doctoring.
He had been left an orphan and was taught, along with his seven brothers, the pharmaceutical trade (they had no pharmacy schools at the time.)
For many years he worked on formulas of several very fine medicines and made some remarkable cures. Lower's (Digestive) Stomach Emulsion (the most famous) was shipped all over the US, Cuba & Alaska (1900 - 1920).
He first met Nettie Cummins when she "..was walking down the street in Hot Springs. All the girls in town were talking about the good looking young druggist who had just recently opened one of the first drug stores in Hot Springs.
Robert was standing outside his store... had the audacity to flirt with her and ask her name.. Nettie, highly insulted, ignored him and promptly told her friends she didn't see 'anything good-looking in that little dark man.'"
"He finally met Nettie through mutual friends." After marrying, they lived together with Nettie's parents until Aline Lower was ten years old [1903]. Then Robert built a very nice home about three blocks from the Cummins home at 202 Silver St. in Hot Springs, Arkansas."
Robert made a run for land in Oklahoma in a buckboard. He got the land that is now the heart of Enid, Oklahoma However, he lost it because he was unable to stay and prove-up the land the required number of years.
Robert bid on more land in Oklahoma around 1920 and purchased 160 acres 12 miles south of Lawton, Ok.
Robert H. Lower, while a druggist in Hot Springs, Arkansas, kept a photo journal of the patients and the cures he had effected with his mixtures. Most of these patients had suffered skin ailments of one type or another.
Interesting to note, perhaps, is that Robert's brother, Frank, who died infancy, died of a skin disease. This may have influenced Robert later in developing salves and other cures for skin diseases.
At the end of his life, his daughter (Frances S Lower) was diagnosed with breast cancer. Robert spent much of the last year of his life trying to develop a cure for his daughter's disease. He died of Parkinson's Disease about three months before his daughter succumbed.
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