MARSHALL J. LOWDEN, president and business manager of the Lowden Co., was born in this county on February 25, 1870. He received his education in the public schools and in Whitman College, also took a course in the Empire Business College. He then returned to his father's farm and was engaged with him in the business of raising thoroughbred Clyde horses and Shorthorn cattle, until the Lowden Co. was formed.
He then became president and business manager of the firm, a position which he still retains and the duties of which he has discharged successfully from the first. He is a young man of energy, good judgment and unusual business ability, qualified by nature and educational training for the arduous and difficult tasks imposed upon him by his present situation. The firm have three thousand, eight hundred acres and while their principal business is raising cattle and horses, they also keep about two thousand sheep and raise wheat and barley for feed and for sale.
They are owners of "Bonhard," a fine Clyde stallion, imported from Scotland into Canada, and brought thence to the United States. His weight is one thousand, six hundred pounds.
Mr. Lowden was married in Walla Walla on March 3, 1898, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of this city, whose father, Robert Thompson, was an early pioneer of Washington. His life history is briefly recorded in another part of this volume.
Source: Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County (1909) (Public Domain)
Vol I Page 311
Author: William Denison Lyman, 1852-1920
History; Columbia County (Wash.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
He then became president and business manager of the firm, a position which he still retains and the duties of which he has discharged successfully from the first. He is a young man of energy, good judgment and unusual business ability, qualified by nature and educational training for the arduous and difficult tasks imposed upon him by his present situation. The firm have three thousand, eight hundred acres and while their principal business is raising cattle and horses, they also keep about two thousand sheep and raise wheat and barley for feed and for sale.
They are owners of "Bonhard," a fine Clyde stallion, imported from Scotland into Canada, and brought thence to the United States. His weight is one thousand, six hundred pounds.
Mr. Lowden was married in Walla Walla on March 3, 1898, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of this city, whose father, Robert Thompson, was an early pioneer of Washington. His life history is briefly recorded in another part of this volume.
Source: Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County (1909) (Public Domain)
Vol I Page 311
Author: William Denison Lyman, 1852-1920
History; Columbia County (Wash.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
MARSHALL J. LOWDEN, president and business manager of the Lowden Co., was born in this county on February 25, 1870. He received his education in the public schools and in Whitman College, also took a course in the Empire Business College. He then returned to his father's farm and was engaged with him in the business of raising thoroughbred Clyde horses and Shorthorn cattle, until the Lowden Co. was formed.
He then became president and business manager of the firm, a position which he still retains and the duties of which he has discharged successfully from the first. He is a young man of energy, good judgment and unusual business ability, qualified by nature and educational training for the arduous and difficult tasks imposed upon him by his present situation. The firm have three thousand, eight hundred acres and while their principal business is raising cattle and horses, they also keep about two thousand sheep and raise wheat and barley for feed and for sale.
They are owners of "Bonhard," a fine Clyde stallion, imported from Scotland into Canada, and brought thence to the United States. His weight is one thousand, six hundred pounds.
Mr. Lowden was married in Walla Walla on March 3, 1898, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of this city, whose father, Robert Thompson, was an early pioneer of Washington. His life history is briefly recorded in another part of this volume.
Source: Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County (1909) (Public Domain)
Vol I Page 311
Author: William Denison Lyman, 1852-1920
History; Columbia County (Wash.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
He then became president and business manager of the firm, a position which he still retains and the duties of which he has discharged successfully from the first. He is a young man of energy, good judgment and unusual business ability, qualified by nature and educational training for the arduous and difficult tasks imposed upon him by his present situation. The firm have three thousand, eight hundred acres and while their principal business is raising cattle and horses, they also keep about two thousand sheep and raise wheat and barley for feed and for sale.
They are owners of "Bonhard," a fine Clyde stallion, imported from Scotland into Canada, and brought thence to the United States. His weight is one thousand, six hundred pounds.
Mr. Lowden was married in Walla Walla on March 3, 1898, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of this city, whose father, Robert Thompson, was an early pioneer of Washington. His life history is briefly recorded in another part of this volume.
Source: Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County (1909) (Public Domain)
Vol I Page 311
Author: William Denison Lyman, 1852-1920
History; Columbia County (Wash.)
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
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