Editing Lowry City, Missouri (section)

==History==
Lowry City was [[plat]]ted in 1871<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA357 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1918 | pages=357}}</ref> when a railroad was built to connect Clinton and Osceola.<ref name="St. Clair County">{{cite web|url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/st-clair-county|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071333/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_saint_clair.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |title=St. Clair County |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=August 25, 2021 }}</ref> The community was named by Jon Hancock<ref name="St. Clair County"/> after one Mr. Lowry, the business associate of a first settler<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_saint_clair.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071333/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_saint_clair.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 |url-status=dead |title=St. Clair County Place Names, 1928–1945 |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=November 27, 2016 }}</ref> A post office called Lowry City has been in operation since 1871.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Saint+Clair | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=27 November 2016}}</ref> whom Hancock had previously clerked.<ref name="St. Clair County"/>