LOW, Frederick Ferdinand, a Representative from California; born in Frankfort (now Winterport), Waldo County, Maine, June 30, 1828; attended the common schools and Hampden Academy; moved to California, where he engaged in the shipping business in San Francisco in 1849; moved to Marysville, Calif. in 1854 and engaged in banking until 1861; presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Thirty-seventh Congress but was not permitted to take his seat; subsequently qualified under authority of a special act of Congress and served from June 3, 1862, to March 3, 1863; was not a candidate for renomination in 1862; appointed collector of the port of San Francisco in 1863; later in that year was elected Governor of California and served until 1867; United States Minister to China 1869-1874; engaged in banking in San Francisco; died in San Francisco, Calif., July 21, 1894; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery; reinterment in Cypress Lawn Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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[ Top ]Kibby, Leo P. "Union Loyalty of California's Civil War Governors." California Historical Society Quarterly 44 (December 1965): 311-21.
Low, Frederick Ferdinand. Letter from Frederick F. Low to the Hon. Alexander Ramsey ... to examine the affairs of the San Francisco Branch Mint, under the superintendency of Henry L. Dodge. [N.p., 1881].
Low, Frederick Ferdinand. Some Reflections of an Early California Governor Contained in a Short Dictated Memoir by Frederick F. Low, Ninth Governor of California, and Notes From an Interview Between Governor Low and Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1883. Edited, with preface and notes by Robert H. Becker. [Sacramento]: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1959.
