Christian Lower

Christian Lower (January 7, 1740 – December 19, 1806) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography Christian Lower was born on January 7, 1740, in Klapperthall Junction, Tulpehocken Township, Pennsylvania. He worked as a blacksmith and was later proprietor of an iron foundry. During the American Revolution, he served as a colonel of associated battalions in 1775 and sublieutenant in 1780. He was county commissioner of Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1777 to 1779. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1783–1785, 1793, 1794, and 1796. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1797 to 1804.

Lower was elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress and served until his death at his home in Klapperthall Junction in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Interment was initially made at the Tulpehocken Church Burial Ground; his remains were later disinterred and reburied at the Christ Lutheran Cemetery in Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania. who built the Tulpehocken Manor Plantation near Myerstown, Pennsylvania. Their son (and Lower's nephew), Christian Ley, went on to serve in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Pennsylvania State Senate, and later built Nutting Hall, another of Pennsylvania's historic homes.