Lyman, W. D. "An Illustrated History of Walla Walla County, State of
Washington."  W. H. Lever, Publisher, 1901.  p. 318.
 
MARSHALL J. LOWDEN

     president and business manager of the Lowden Co., was born in this county
on February 25, 1870. He received his education in the public schools and in
Whitman College, also took a course in the Empire Business College. He then
returned to his father's farm and was engaged with him in the business of
raising thoroughbred Clyde horses and Shorthorn cattle, until the Lowden Co. was
formed. He then became president and business manager of the firm, a position
which he still retains and the duties of which he has discharged successfully
from the first. He is a young man of energy, good judgment and unusual business
ability, qualified by nature and educational training for the arduous and
difficult tasks imposed upon him by his present situation. The firm have three
thousand, eight hundred acres and while their principal business is raising
cattle and horses, they also keep about two thousand sheep and raise wheat and
barley for feed and for sale. They are owners of "Bonhard," a fine Clyde
stallion, imported from Scotland into Canada, and brought thence to the United
States. His weight is one thousand, six hundred pounds. Mr. Lowden was married
in Walla Walla on March 3, 1898, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of this city,
whose father, Robert Thompson, was an early pioneer of Washington. His life
history is briefly recorded in another part of this volume.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in February 2009 by Diana Smith.
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