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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a amazing family. These were settlers in the brand new World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a fresh country in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building success in the 1800s, and experts and performers flourishing in the 1900s. Though no strangers to controversy, the family boasted a few of the most amazing individuals in America's background: Percival Lowle, the patriarch who planted the origins of the family tree; Reverend John Lowell, the preacher; Judge John Lowell, a member of the Continental Congress; Francis Cabot Lowell, who some say was founder of the Industrial Revolution in the US; James Russell Lowell, North american Romantic poet; Lawrence Lowell, one of Harvard's most controversial presidents; and Amy Lowell, the twentieth century poet who resided openly in a Boston marriage with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell. The Lowells noticed the guarantee of America as the land of opportunity by uniting Puritan ideals of hard work, community service, and specific responsibility with a deep-seated optimism that became a well-known family characteristic. A long time before the Kennedys put their stamp on Massachusetts, the Lowells stated the bedrock.
