Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Caldwell Co.

T.A. LOWEY, attorney at law, Caldwell County, was born June 8, 1825, in
Sparta, White Co., Tenn.  His father, James S. Lowey, was a native of
North Carolina, which State he left when quite a small boy, moving to
Sparta, where he lived until 1827, at which time he came to Caldwell
County, Ky., and remained here until 1865, when he immigrated to Johnson
County, Ill., dying there in 1882, at the age of ninety-four years.  He
was of Irish descent and had served as a soldier in the American army
during the war of 1812.  Subject's mother, Elizabeth Lowey, was a 
daughter of Turner Lane, an early settler of White County, Tenn.  She
was married to Mr. Lowey in 1807, and died in 1852.  Mr. and Mrs. Lowey
were the parents of fourteen children, T.A. being the seventh; he was
thrown upon his own resources early in life, and at the age of
eighteen commenced working at the wagon-maker's trade and house 
carpentering, which he followed until 1869, reading law in the meantime
under the instructions of W.H. Miller, L. Pepper and George W. Duvall.  
He received license to practice in the courts of Kentucky, in 1869, and
since that time has 

Lowey Lane Miller Pepper Duvall
=
Spartan-White-TN NC Johnson-IL

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