Rev. Reuben Post Lowrie

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (VOL VII)

LOWRIE, Reuben Post, teacher and missionary, was born in Butler, Pa., Nov. 24, 1827; son of Walter and Amelia (McPherrin) Lowrie. He was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1846, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1849. He was principal of an academy at Wyoming, Pa., 1849-51; assistant professor of the Greek and Latin languages and literature in the University of the City of New York, 1851-52, and during the vacations of 1851-52, a teacher in the Spencer academy of the Choctaw Indian mission. He was ordained an evangelist by the presbytery of Luzerne, Pa., March 22, 1854. He was married, March 29, 1854, to Amelia Palmer, daughter of James N. Tuttle, and she accompanied him to Shanghai, China, on his missionary duties in 1854. He spent the remainder of his life there, and devoted himself to the study of the Chinese language. He translated the shorter catechism, a catechism of the Old Testament history, and a commentary on St. Matthew's gospel, into the Shanghai colloquial dialect. He also devoted himself to the completion of a Dictionary of the Four Books which had been begun by his brother, the Rev. Walter Macon Lowrie (q.v.) He died in Shanghai, China, April 26, 1860. Reuben Post Lowrie was a missionary under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in China from 1854 until his death, serving in Shanghai.

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