| 词条 | Matthew B. Lowrie |
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| name = Matthew B. Lowrie | image = Matthew B. Lowrie.jpg | caption = Portrait of Matthew B. Lowrie, {{circa}} 1830–1831 | birth_date = May 12, 1773[1] | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | death_date = July 28, 1850 (aged 76/77) | death_place = | office = 5th Mayor of Pittsburgh | term_start = 1830 | term_end = 1831 | predecessor = | successor = Magnus Miller Murray | residence = | party = Anti-Masonic | religion = Presbyterianism | occupation = | spouse = | children = Walter H. Lowrie | relations = Walter Lowrie (brother) | footnotes = | website = }} Mathew B. Lowrie (1773 – July 28, 1850), served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1830 to 1831. Early lifeLowrie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, from where he emigrated with his parents the U.S. state of to Pennsylvania. As a young man he came to Pittsburgh and started a thriving grocery business. Lowrie was also active in religion, serving many years as a Sunday school teacher at the First Presbyterian Church. His brother, Walter Lowrie, served in the United States Senate, and his son, Walter H. Lowrie, went on to become Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Pittsburgh politicsMathew Lowrie was elected mayor in 1830 and is credited with "modernizing" the fire department. The city bought its very first steam powered fire engine and named it the "citizen". Lowrie was also instrumental in managing the city's rapid growth by adopting the "ward" system of governance for the first time in western Pennsylvania. {{See also|List of Mayors of Pittsburgh}}{{Portal|Pittsburgh|Biography|Politics}}Later lifeLowrie died in 1850 after a bout with cholera, he is buried in Allegheny Cemetery and the site is marked by an obelisk. {{S-start}}{{Succession box | before=Magnus Miller Murray | title=Mayor of Pittsburgh |years=1830–1831 | after=Magnus Miller Murray}} {{S-end}}{{Mayors of Pittsburgh}}References1. ^{{cite news|last1=Swetnam|first1=George|publisher=The Pittsburgh Press|date=September 20, 1973}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowrie, Matthew B.}} 10 : 1773 births|1850 deaths|American Presbyterians|Deaths from cholera|Scottish emigrants to the United States|Mayors of Pittsburgh|People from Edinburgh|Infectious disease deaths in Pennsylvania|Anti-Masonic Party politicians from Pennsylvania|Burials at Allegheny Cemetery |
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