Arthur Lowell, an industrious farmer of section 19, Sumner Township, was born at Cook's Valley, Chippewa County, Nov. 2, 1889, the son of Nelson and Helen Eva (Wood) Lowell, who brought him to Sumner Township when he was a baby. He was reared and educated here. At the age of fifteen he went to Birchwood, on the boundary line between Sawyer and Washburn counties. Three years later he came back and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one. Then he married and went back to Birchwood. There he worked in the mills and for a time had charge of the barns which housed the lumber teams. Subsequently for some years he farmed on rented places near Canton, and in between, owned 40 acres in section 20. In 1917 he bought his present place of 100 acres in section 19. Here he has made general improvements and here he has since carried on mixed farming and dairying. He believes thoroughly in co-operative effort among farmers, and holds stock in the Farmers Telephone Co. and the Farmers Threshing Machine Co., all of Canton. Mr. Lowell was married Aug. 16, 1911, in Rusk County, Wis., to Mabel Apker, born in Rusk County, this state, daughter of Tunis H. and Harriet Apker, natives of Wisconsin. This union has been blessed with three children, Ruth, Clifford and Harvey. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 809-810.