. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . ne Gracie. James Higginsons service to his country didnot end with the war. Like his brother Henry,everything that had to do with the welfare ofhis fellow-citizens was dear to his heart, andclaimed his thought, time, and means. During his active business life and after hisretirement from business he gave a large partof his time to public service. He was one ofthe early members of the Council of the Char- 44 MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF 6i ily Organization Society; he was one of thetrustees of the House of Refuge; for m
. Memoirs of the war of '61. Colonel Charles Russell Lowell, friends and cousins . ne Gracie. James Higginsons service to his country didnot end with the war. Like his brother Henry,everything that had to do with the welfare ofhis fellow-citizens was dear to his heart, andclaimed his thought, time, and means. During his active business life and after hisretirement from business he gave a large partof his time to public service. He was one ofthe early members of the Council of the Char- 44 MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF 6i ily Organization Society; he was one of thetrustees of the House of Refuge; for manyyears he served as president of the New YorkEye and Ear Infirmary; and from 1902 to 1905was a member of the Board of love of Harvard College was always a stronginterest in his life, and he joined the HarvardClub in 1876, giving to it much time and devo-tion, and finally becoming its president, whichoffice he held at the time of his death. He was a warm and faithful friend, and waswidely mourned as a man of generous and justspirit, of strong and manly JAMES JACKSON LOWELL JAMES JACKSON LOWELL 45 JAMES JACKSON LOWELL Born October 15, 1837, ^^ Cambridge, July 4, 1862, at Nelsons Farm near Rich-mond, Virginia. James Jackson Lowell passed from the BostonLatin School to Harvard College in 1854, grad-uating in 1858 as first scholar in his class. Whilehe would walk a dozen miles for wild flowers,skate all day and dance as long as the bandwould play, he found no study too dry. Hewas full of life, enjoyed keenly, pursued eagerlyand crowded every hour with work or i860 Lowell entered the Law School. Mean-time the war began. On July 10, 1861, J. and his cousin William Lowell Putnamreceived their commissions as first and secondlieutenants in the Twentieth , andafter a few days at Washington the regimentwas ordered to Poolesvllle, Maryland, where Itlay in camp till October 20th. On October2ist was fought the Battle of Balls Bl
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