Albert Lowell, veteran of the Civil War, one of the earliest pioneers of Sumner Township, and at one time keeper of a hotel on the old village site of Sumner, was born in Illinois, son of Harvey and Sarah (Randolph) Lowell. He came west as a young man, and married Margaret Gorman, a native of Sauk County, this state. He served in the Civil War as a private in Co. D, Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He came to Barron County in the seventies, and located in Sumner Township, where he homesteaded wild land and built a log cabin. He subsequently farmed in different parts of the township and at one time, as noted, kept a hotel in the old town of Sumner. Later he moved to Canton where he died at the age of sixty-three, and his wife is still living with her son, Frank. In the family there were six children: Herman, Frank, Clara, Sadie, Walter and Laura. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 778.