Family
Abiel Abbot Low was the son of Seth and Mary Porter Low, grandson of David and Hannah Haskell Low, great grandson of David and Abigail Choate Low. His sister, Harriet Low, was one of the first young American women to live in China and is remembered for her journal of life in Macau from 1829 to 1833.
Low married Ellen Almira, daughter of Josiah Dow of Brooklyn on March 16, 1841, and had two sons and two daughters from this marriage: Harriette Low (October 24, 1842 – 1884), Abbot Augustus Low (May 12, 1844 – 1912), inventor (notably of the paper shredder), businessman and industrialist, Ellen Low (June 30, 1846 – 1884), and Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) who later became mayor of New York and president of Columbia University.
Upon the death of his wife in 1850, Low married Anne Davison Low, widow of Low’s brother William Henry Low. Another brother, Charles Porter Low, served as captain on the Houqua, Jacob Bell, Samuel Russell, and N.B. Palmer.
In 1894, Low's sons Abbot Augustus and Seth, built a hospital in Wu-Chang, China in memory of their father.
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