San Joaquin County Biographies
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FRANK E. LOWE
A well-known and representative farmer of San Joaquin County is Frank E. Lowe, who is engaged in general agricultural pursuits and the raising of grapes. He was born in Dane County, Wis., on July 15, 1873, and is the ninth child in a family of twelve of Amos and Mary (Barrows) Lowe, both parents being of English descent. The father, Amos Lowe, was a farmer. In 1886 he brought his family to California and settled in San Luis Obispo County, seven miles east of Atascadero. Coming to California for his health, Amos Lowe soon found that he had located in too high an altitude; so he removed to Arroyo Grande on the coast, and there engaged in farming. For many years he was justice of the peace of his township.
The education of Frank E. Lowe was obtained in the grammar and high schools of San Luis Obispo, and he assisted his father on his ranch until he was twenty-one years old. He then went to Hanford, Cal., where he worked for wages. Next he rented a vineyard of forty acres, where he remained for one year, and then returned to the coast and took charge of his father's sixty-acre ranch in the rich valley of the Arroyo Grande, where crops are always assured on account of the dense ocean fogs.
Mr. Lowe was married to Miss Rose Hodges at Arroyo Grande, in August, 1899. She was born near Arroyo Grande, and is the daughter of Thomas E. and Sarah (Wineinger) Hodges. Her father was one of the first settlers on the E.W. Steele tract in San Luis Obispo County, and was a successful rancher of the Arroyo Grande section. The Steele tract was originally an old Spanish grant. Mrs. Lowe was educated in the Arroyo Grande grammar and high school, and supplemented this with an attendance at Stanford University, after which she taught school in San Luis Obispo County until her marriage to Mr. Lowe. After his marriage, Mr. Lowe purchased nineteen acres near Arroyo Grande and engaged in a general truck-farming business. Later he sold this property and bought nineteen and a half acres of his wife's father's ranch, devoted to walnuts and apricots. He farmed this ranch for ten years and still owns it. In November, 1912, he moved to San Joaquin County, where he purchased sixty acres in vineyard and alfalfa on the Sargent-Lafayette road, five miles west of Lodi; this he farmed for four years and then sold it. While residing on this place, Mrs. Lowe passed away. Mr. Lowe next bought a thirty-acre ranch on Kettleman Lane, one mile south of Lodi, twenty acres of which is in grapes and the balance in alfalfa and cherry trees; the ranch is piped throughout for irrigating, and there is a four-inch pump with a seven-and-a-half-horsepower motor on the place. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe were the parents of three children: Alfrieda A. attending the University of California at Berkeley, where she is training to be a teacher; Velma F., attending the University of Southern California; and Alvin F., at home. In politics, Mr. Lowe is a Republican; and fraternally he is a member of the Masonic Lodge of Lodi. Recently Mr. Lowe purchased fifty and one-half acres on the Kelly road near Woodbridge, twenty acres of which is in bearing vineyard and eighteen acres in young vineyard at this time, the balance being unimproved land.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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