About Walter H. Lowrie
Lived 1807 – 1876 (aged 68–69). Walter H. Lowrie was an American lawyer and judge.
Walter Hoge Lowrie (March 31, 1807 – November 14, 1876) was a Pennsylvania jurist.
He was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, son of Matthew B. Lowrie, and nephew of Senator Walter Lowrie. After serving in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire until 1842, he became a lawyer, serving as a district judge in Pennsylvania from 1846 to 1851. An 1826 graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, he was also served as the first professor of law at the university from 1843 to 1851.
He died of heart disease in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on November 14, 1876. He is interred in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh.
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American judge (1807–1876)
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