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3310 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSagency for the Maxwell and Buick oars. He is a member of the Turner CountyBar Association, is a democrat, and has already realized in practical accomplishment much that his ambition desired in earlier years.CHARLES W. LOWE. A scion of an old and honored family of Georgia,Charles Warren Lowe is admirably upholding the high prestige of hispatronymic and is one of the representative and influential citizens ofMarion County, where he is serving as clerk of the Superior Court and wherehe is president of the Buena Vista Loan & Savings Bank, one of the substantialand well ordered financial institutions of this section of his native state.Mr. Lowe was born in Stewart County, Georgia, on the 20th of October,1867, and is a son of Rev. "Erastus William Lowe and Cornelia (Wright)Lowe. both natives of Jones County, this state,'where the former was bornin 1837 and the latter in 1847. Rev. Erastus W. Lowe was a son of JamesPowell and Amelia Gaines (Brown) Lowe, who were sterling pioneer citizensof Jones County and who did well their part in connection with civic andindustrial development and progress in Central Georgia, where they continued to reside until their death. Elder Erastus W. Lowe was a man of fineintellectuality and noble character, as shown by his long and fruitful serviceas a clergyman of the Primitive Baptist Church. He held various pastoralcharges within the protracted period of his ministerial labors, and was pastorof a church in Stewart County at the time of his death, in 1878. His loyaltyto the Confederacy was of the most insistent type during the dark epoch ofthe Civil war and he went to Macon to tender his services as a soldier, butwas not accepted for enlistment, owing to physical disability. His brother,Colonel John Hollinger Lowe, was a distinguished officer of the Confederateservice during the war between the North and the South and later representedStewart County as a member of the Georgia .Legislature. The venerablewidow of Elder Erastus W. Lowe maintains her home at Buena Vista, is adevoted member of the Primitive Baptist Church and is revered by all whohave come within the circle of her gracious influence. Of the six childrenthe first-born, James Erastus Lowe, is a prominent cotton merchant andinfluential citizen of Buena Vista; Charles W., immediate subject of thissketch, was the next in order of birth; Sarah Corrilla Lowe, died at the ageof fifteen; George Ross is associated with his brother James E., as a memberof the firm of Lowe & Company, cotton factors at Buena Vista, and is president of the First National Bank of this place, in the organization of which,in 1906, he was a prominent figure; Marcus Lafayette and William HollingerLowe are associated in the conducting of the leading general merchandiseestablishment of Buena Vista.Charles W. Lowe is indebted to the public schools of Stewart County andof Buena Vista, Marion County, for his early educational discipline, and atthe age of seventeen years he became actively associated with the work andmanagement of a farm owned by his father, in Stewart County. About ayear later, however, he assumed a clerical position in the mercantile establishment conducted at Buena Vista by" James M. Lowe, a cousin of his father,and his services in this establishment continued from 1888 to 1903, in whichlatter year he was elected clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, anoffice of which he has since continued the efficient and popular incumbent.In 1913 Mr. Lowe was elected president of the Buena Vista Loan &Savings Bank, of which his kinsman and former employer, James M. Lowe, wasthe first president. This bank was organized and incorporated in 1889, witha capital stock of $25,000, which was later increased to its present figure,$30,000, the bank now having surplus and undivided profits to the amount of$30,000 and being known as one of the carefully and conservatively managedfinancial institutions of the central part of Georgia.Mr. Lowe is essentially a business man and has had no ambition for political