He was the only child of Bradley Samuel Adams Lowe and Adelaide Bellumeau de la Vincendiere.

At thirteen he entered Clongowes Wood College, Ireland, where he was schoolmates with Thomas Francis Meagher.

Three years later he matriculated at Stonyhurst College, England, where he was friends with Francis Mahony and Miles Gerard Keon, the novelist.

After the war, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, joining the law firm of Richard F. Clarke and W. H.

He had the advantage of collegiate training abroad, with which was combined a pleasing address, winning speech and clear-cut, States' rights, patriotic principles.James McSherry, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, writing to a member of his family, paid this tribute to Lowe's memory: The superb attainments of your father as a forensic and popular orator were perhaps never equalled by anyone who ever lived in this country.