Edward J. LowellEdward Jackson Lowell (October 18, 1845 in Boston – May 11, 1894 in Cotuit, Massachusetts) was a lawyer and historian in the United States (Massachusetts). In 1867, Lowell graduated from Harvard College. He spent several years after college studying nd traveling overseas. He married Mary Wolcott Goodrich in 1868. He worked in business for a year or so before studying law and was admitted to the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, bar in 1872. He practiced law until 1874, when his wife died, when he resigned to care for his children and study. He married Elizabeth Gilbert Jones in 1877. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Read More Read Less