Nominated on State Ticket
Seymour Lowman Started Life in Bainbridge
Lived and Attended High School Here
Bainbridge Republican, Oct. 2, 1924
Bainbridge claims some portion of the honor which came to Senator Seymour Lowman of Elmira last week at the Republican State Convention where he was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. His boyhood days were passed in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. His family lived on the farm on the East Side of the river. It is the farm now occupied by John Loudon, three miles from this village. His father died soon after the family came to Bainbridge in 1878 from Lowman, N.Y., where Seymour was born in 1868. Besides the mother there were two daughters and three sons in the family, all young at the time of the father's death and Seymour and his older brother Frank carried on the farm work. Those in Bainbridge who were Seymour Lowman's school mates can see him as he looked then walking into the village every morning from the farm with books under his arm and lunch pail in his hand, to attend the Bainbridge Union school. His pluck, perseverance and industry were commented upon at the time for he encountered the hardships of life in striving for an education. He was obliged to work hard upon the farm to help in the success of the family sustenance. After completing his studies at the Bainbridge Union School, he took up the study of law in one of the local offices and later went to Norwich where he studied in the law office of John W. Church, a noted lawyer of that day. He located in Elmira in 1889 and immediately took interest in politics. He became a friend of Hon. J. Sloat Fassett and was one of his aides in the political contests that existed in Chemung County.
He was made chairman of the county committee which office he has held to the present time. In 1893 he married Miss Kate Smith, daughter of Mrs. Rhoba Smith of Bainbridge, and who resided on the Smith homestead farm on the Eastside near the Lowman farm. He has served Chemung County in the State Assembly and when nominated for Lieutenant Governor he was serving his third term in the State Senate. Seymour Lowman always kept interest in Bainbridge and her people. Many of his school friends are still here who have watched his rise to prominence with a great deal of delight and satisfaction. Mr. and Mrs. Lowman have visited in Bainbridge frequently. Frank Lowman residing on the Smith homestead farm on the Eastside is a brother and his wife is half sister of Mrs. Seymour Lowman. Senator Lowman delivered an address before the Bainbridge Woman's Club at gentlemen's evening, the big function of the club year three years ago. A few years ago Mr. Lowman gave up the practice of law to engage entirely in business and his construction and building concern is one of the largest and most prosperous in Elmira. He also has one of the largest florists establishments in New York state.
Bainbridge people feel that Senator Lowman is one of them, though, he is located elsewhere and they rejoice in his success. His pluck of early days has carried him through life's struggle to his present pinnacle of success and if we are to summarize the traits which have marked his career they are perseverance, dependability and an absolute sense of honor and a constant desire to associate with the best elements in life and to improve the conditions and standards of society to the well being of mankind.
Lowman for Lieutenant Governor
Elmira Star Gazette
Elmirans and residents of the Southern Tier generally, are extremely pleased to see Seymour Lowman of this city given the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor by unanimous ballot.
Seymour Lowman has taken an active aggressive part in Republican party affairs for many years. He began by holding municipal office; then was sent to Albany to represent Chemung county in the state Assembly; later became state senator to represent several counties, including Chemung.
Now he has been chosen to be the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor and, if elected, will preside over the state Senate of which he is now a prominent, able member.
Seymour Lowman is dry and has been from the first. He has voted consistently with the drys and has not hesitated to say that he believed that his large constituency in the Southern Tier desired their representative in the state Legislature to be dry.
Mr. Lowman has been friendly to labor interests and to the farmer, and his vote upon the so-called social and welfare measures has always been cast with discerning practicability. He was quick to see when proposed measures were likely to be more repressive and troublesome than corrective and relieving and would promptly voice his views.
Experience and ability he possesses to a marked degree. Educated for the law he was admitted to the bar and practiced that profession for a short time, but business made a stronger appeal to him and he became a general contractor and builder. Many large and costly structures in this section have been built by his firm. This has kept him in close touch with the men who do the work and with what they are thinking and talking about. His finger has always been on the public pulse and this constant study of everyday affairs has enable him to bring to the solution of public and governmental affairs an acumen and keen judgment unknown to the mere office window observer of events.
Seymour Lowman comes of good old American stock. He believes in saying what he thinks; he believes in American institutes and has no use for some of the new-fangled ideas that would upset the Constitution and embark the United States out on some uncharted sea of experiment and trouble; he believes in sensible practicability; he wants to be shown before adopting any innovations, but when convinced that new ideas are better, he is a man who will step out and lead the advance for their adoption.
Seymour Lowman, by his own efforts and ability, has won his way to a high place in his party and in public affairs; and there is no doubt that here in the Southern Tier where he is best known he will receive a large vote on November 4.
If elected, he will serve the state with dignity and with a true sense of the needs of the times and the needs of the citizens of the state whose important affairs he will aid in shaping and directing.
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