Lowell a Meaningful Name
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Former Governor Chase S. Obsorn was the speaker Thursday at the opening of the Centennial program at Recreation park. Whenever Osborn speaks it means an intellectual treat and Thursday’s address was no exception. Speaking of the name Lowell Mr. Osborn said: "The name of Lowell itself is something to live up to. It has distinguished the classic ages and is just as meaningful today. "A Lawrence Lowell is president of Harvard University. James R. Lowell was a major American literate. John Lowell founded Boston Institute. Francis Cabot Lowell may have done more for American than any other Lowell. He founded the Cotton industry at about the same time Lowell, Mich. Was settled. Lowell, Mass., took its name from him in 1826. Shortly after, in 1831, Lowell, Mich., was settled. It was probably named through the radiated influence of John and Francis C. Lowell. |
| More Than 1,000 Years Old |
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"The name of Lowell is more than 1,000 years old. So this town has tradition and background. Heraldic authorities give 40 coats of arms to royal and noble Lowell familise, beginning almost with the Christian era. It is interesting to seek the origin of the name and trace its development because it means something in temperament and achievement. "Royal familes of England, Germany and France were born under the name of Lowell. The names was not in the same form of speling but the present form is a development of the original genesis. The name Lowell in Greek and Latin means wolf and comes from the Latin Lupus (wolf) and Lupellus (little wolf.) It changed to Lou, Lovel, then Lowell. The wife of Faustulus, who nurtured Romulus and Remus, was called Lup, the feminine of the Latin word lupus. "But we cannot live on traditions of yesterday except that we may carry on those things that have impressed the past." |
| In Relay Race |
| "Lowell, Mich., has lived 100 years. It is said the first 100 years are the hardest, but at no time is it the hardest with a community of proper coherence, as has been displayed here. Life in a community like Lowell is a relay race. Those who carried the baton 100 years ago passed it on to those a quarter of a century later and those in turn to later generations until today you are carrying it on in this celebration." |
| --From the Lowell Ledger of August 13, 1931. |
Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell: 100 Years of History, 1831-1931, Lowell, Michigan: The Lowell Ledger, 1931
Transcriber: Jennifer Godwin
Created: 25 April 2003