Charles Russell Lowell, Sr.

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Charles Russell Lowell, Sr. (1782 – 1861), a Unitarian minister, the half-brother of Francis Cabot Lowell, father of James Russell Lowell, and grandfather of Civil War General Charles Russell Lowell, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Lowell, Sr. attended The Roxbury Latin School and later Harvard College in 1800 where he studied law and then theology. After two years in Edinburgh, Scotland and one year on the Continent, Lowell was, from 1806 until his death, pastor of the West Congregational (Unitarian) Church of Boston.

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