GALLIA COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: LOWRY, Joseph W.
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These are from an old book listing the biographies of local doctors, but I
can't remember the name of the book.  At the top of the page was THE HEADLIGHT., so I don't know if this was a book or periodical.

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The Headlight.

Joseph W. Lowry.

Dr. Joseph W. Lowry was born in Greenbriar county, W. Va., 1867, and moved 
with his parents to Gallia county, Ohio, when quite young.  He was educated
in the common schools and the Normals at Waterloo and Oak Hill and the Gallia 
Academy at Gallipolis.  He began the study of medicine in 1889 and the
following
year entered the University of Maryland at Baltimore, spending the following 
summer attending medical clinics at the college of Physicians and Surgeons at
Baltimore.  He afterward entered this college and completed two years
lectures,
then entering the University of Louisville where he took his third course of 
lectures.  The degree of M. D. was conferred upon him in 1893 since which time
he has been engaged in active practice at Ironton, Ohio.  Dr. Lowry has served
this city as Health Officer for nearly two years and is now serving his
fourth 
term as township physician and surgeon for Upper Township.  He is one of the 
eminent physicians of the state and esteemed for his personal worth.

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