Rev. Charles Russell Lowell (1782-1861)

D.D., Pastor of the West Church, Boston, Massachusetts

He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated at The Roxbury Latin School and Harvard, where he studied law and then theology. After two further years at Edinburgh University in Scotland and then a year in Europe, Lowell returned to Boston and from 1806 until his death was Pastor of the West (Unitarian) Church, Boston. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery. Between 1837 and 1840, he returned to Europe to travel. He was a member and councillor of the American Antiquarian Society; Fellow of Harvard, 1818 to 1833; and, a member of several literary societies both in the United States and abroad. He lived with his family at Elmwood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Harriet Brackett Spence and they were the parents of six children, including the celebrated poet and professor, James Russell Lowell.

Parents (2)

John Lowell

"The Old Judge" of Roxbury, Massachusetts; Chief Justice of the U.S. Circuit Court

1743-1802

Rebecca (Russell) Lowell

Mrs Rebecca (Russell) Tyng, Lowell

1746-1816

Spouse (1)

Harriet (Spence) Lowell

Mrs Harriet Brackett (Spence) Lowell

1783-1850

Children (6)

Charles Russell Lowell

of Cambridge, Massachusetts

1807-1870

Rebecca Russell Lowell

Died unmarried

1809-1872

Mary Lowell Putnam

Mrs Mary Traill Spence (Lowell) Putnam, of Boston; Author & Translator

1810-1898

William Keith Lowell

Died in childhood

1813-1823

Rev. Robert Traill Spence Lowell

Headmaster of St. Mark's School, Southborough & Professor at Union College, N.Y.

1816-1891

Prof. James Russell Lowell

of Boston; Poet & U.S. Ambassador to Spain and the Court of St. James

1819-1891

Associated Houses (1)

Elmwood

Cambridge, Massachusetts