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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