Lowrie, John Cameron

D.D. (Miami University, Oxford, O., 1852), Presbyterian; b. at Butler, Penn., Dec. 16, 1808; graduated at Jefferson College, Canons burg, Penn., 1829; was at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Penn., 1829-32, at Princeton Theological Seminary, N.J, 1832-33; mi ionary in Upper India 1833-36, when, his health failing, he returned to America, and since 1838 has been connected with the Board of Foreign Mi ions, until 1850 as a istant secretary, and since as secretary. From 1845 to 1850 he was minister of the Forty-second-street Church, New York; moderator of the O. S. General A embly at Pittsburg, Penn., 1865. He is the author of Two Years in Upper India, New York, 1850; The Foreign Mi ions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1855, 3d ed. 1868; Mi ionary Papers, 1882.