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Lowndes, Lloyd (d. 1905)
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History of Harrison County, West Virginia, 
From the Early Days of Northwestern Virginia to the Present.
by Henry Haymond
Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1910

Pages 390-391

Lloyd Lowndes.

The subject of this sketch was of a Maryland family, but himself a
native of the District of Columbia. He came to Clarksburg and
established a store in a small wooden building which stood on the
North side of Main Street below what is now Third Street. In course
of time he purchased the old Hewes tavern stand on the corner of
Third and Main Streets and lived and conducted business there until
his death in 1879. It is still known as Lowndes Corner.

In the many years in which Mr. Lowndes conducted the mercantile
business he builded a reputation for integrity second to none in
the community and the name of Lowndes has ever since stood as a
synonyn for honesty and fair dealing.

Mr. Lowndes married Elizabeth, the daughter of Major Thomas P.
Moore, and his son Richard still continues business at the old
place.

His son Lloyd graduated from Allegheny College, Meadville, Penna.,
in 1865, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in
1867, located at Cumberland, Maryland was elected a member of the
43d. Congress, and in 1895, was elected Governor of Maryland for
four years.

Governor Lowndes was connected with many financial and other
institutions, and died January 8, 1905, in the prime of his manhood
and usefulness and in the fullness of his fame, honored, loved and
respected by his people.

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