1. Thomas Lowry was an American lawyer, real-estate magnate, and businessman who oversaw much of the early growth of the streetcar lines in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis, St Paul, and surrounding communities in Minnesota.
10 Facts About Thomas Lowry
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Thomas Lowry became head of the Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
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Thomas Lowry is not known to be a relative of Sylvanus Lowry, the slaveholder and profiteer of slavery-related enterprise from St Cloud, Minnesota.
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Thomas Lowry set up shop and quickly found much of his work to be related to real-estate deals.
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Thomas Lowry managed the company and organized finances, while his brother-in-law Calvin Gibson Goodrich handled other details.
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Thomas Lowry had the idea to extend rails out into areas that had not yet been developed, much of that land being owned by him.
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Thomas Lowry's company merged with the rail line of St Paul after the first "interurban" line connected the Twin Cities.
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The first one of these was a special car for Thomas Lowry that had large window panes at one end so that he could see more as the car traveled through the region.
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Thomas Lowry served as president of what would become Soo Line Railroad from 1889 to 1890 and again from 1892 to 1909.
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Thomas Lowry Park is located at Douglas and Mount Curve Avenues in Lowry Hill, in memorial of Thomas Lowry.