Horace G. Lowe, of section 9, Carson Township, was born in Decatur County, Indiana, October 3, 1854, the son of Franklin and Julia (Spurling) Lowe; the father is a well-known and prominent citizen of Carson. They reared a family of six children. Horace, the eldest child, was reared in Decatur County, Indiana, until fourteen years of age, when, in the fall of 1870, the family removed to Glenwood, Mills County, Iowa, where they lived until the next spring. They then moved on the land where the home farm now is. Here he has since resided with the exception of two years.

In 1879 he accepted a situation as salesman in the mercantile house of Ohio Knox, of Macedonia; and the next year he accepted a position in the mercantile business of L. D. Woodmansie, of Wheeler's Grove. In 1881 he returned to the farm, where he has since resided, which consists of 240 acres of land, under a high state of cultivation.

He was married April 17, 1881, to Miss Hattie A. Woodmansie, of Logan County, Illinois, who was a child of five years when her father, L. D. Woodmansie, came to this county. He was a native of New Jersey, and her mother, Mary (Niswonger) Woodmansie, was a native of Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Lowe have two children, Mabel and Loren. Politically Mr. Lowe is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lowe is an honored and esteemed citizen of the county, where he has resided for so many years.