Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Esther Winder Polk Lowe (1824-1918)
MSA SC 3520-2263
First Lady of Maryland, 1851-1854


Notes

1.  J.D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1990), 281; Maryland Historical Society MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION "The Autobiography of Esther Lowe," MS1949, 2.

2.  Maryland Historical Society MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION "The Autobiography of Esther Lowe," MS1949, 13-14.

3.  Ibid., 20.

4.  Ibid., 21-22.

5.  Ibid., 23-24.

6.  Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland: 1777-1970 (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 141.

7.   The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Maryland and the District of Columbia (Baltimore: National Biographical Publishing, Co., 1879), 12.

8.  Heinrich Ewald Buchholz, Governors of Maryland: From the Revolution to the Year 1908, 2d ed. (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkens Company, 1908), 160.

9.  P.H. Magruder, The Colonial Government House of Maryland (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1935), 1405.

10.  Maryland Historical Society MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION "The Autobiography of Esther Lowe," MS1949, 38.

11.  Ibid., 39, 61.

12.  Ibid., 43.

13.  Ibid., 44.

14.  Ibid., 47-48.

15.  Ibid., 49.

16.  Ibid., 50.

17.  Ibid.

18.  Ibid.

19.  Ibid., 59, 61, 65, 67.

20. Maryland State Archives BALTIMORE CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS (Death Record) Esther Winder Polk Lowe, 1 December 1918, Certificate No. D25713 [MSA CM1132-135, CR 48178]. Obituary. The Sun, 4 December 1918.


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