James Russell Lowell

Name

James Russell Lowell

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First Name

James

Additional Names

Russell

Last Name

Lowell

Born

22 February 1819

Died

12 August 1891

Spouse

1. Maria Lowell (1821-1853) (member of Boston Female Abolitionist Society, temperance activist, participant in Conversations with Margaret Fuller, and poet)
2. Francis Dunlap

Date Married

1. 1844
2. 1853

Profession

Writer
Poet
Editor - worked with Pennsylvania Freeman in mid 1840s

Poetry

Pennsylvania Freeman

Note

He wrote a letter to George soliciting work for his short-lived publication, The Pioneer. He referred to William Burleigh as "a dear friend of mine" George S. Burleigh papers, Joy Hay Library, Brown University, HA 523, 1842-12-16.
Regarding the portrait: Taken in Philadelphia, photographer unknown - Digital Commonwealth, Public Domain

Portrait source

George Shepard Burleigh

William Henry Burleigh

Related Places

Europe, too

Eastern Pennsylvania

Massachusetts - Boston and eastern Massachusetts

Associated Causes

He vacillated on Abolition and on African American capacities later in life (after Maria's death)

Abolition

Underground Railroad URR

Labor, Rights of

Temperance

Opposition to Death Penalty

Religious Affiliation

Raised Unitarian, later agnostic

Religious Views of Lowell (thumbnail sketch)

Unitarian

Free Thought