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By 1883, William was making these annual trips to New York and Savannah for his aging father. On January 25, 1844, in Christ Church, Andrew Low II married Sarah Cecil Hunter, daughter of Alexander and Harriet Bellinger Hunter. During his first ten years in America Andrew Low II  acquired a thorough understanding of the company’s business as it evolved from general merchant/agent/shipper to cotton factor. In their separate ways, these events forever changed Andrew Low II’s life. Hear the rags to riches story of Andrew Low a man William Makepeace Thackeray portrayed as a “great man” and described Low’s home as the most “comfortable accommodations in America”. Due to COVID-19, the tour is pretty much self guided. Andrew Low II’s sympathies were understandably with the south, where he had lived and worked for over 30 years. An amazing trip back in time! The group loaded a ship, the Bermuda, with munitions and sent her on her successful way to Savannah. Julliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl S. I enjoyed visiting this house because Juliet Gordon Low lived here as Andrew Low's wife. The family lived at 3 Parade Square, probably Madison Square today. I really enjoyed the first part of the tour with the incredible staircase and original furnished rooms. The English author, William Makepeace Thackeray, wrote after staying with Andrew Low II  in the 1850’s, “Cotton dealers, brokers, merchants, they are tremendous men, these cotton merchants.”. Opportunity brought him to Savannah in 1829 and he became the wealthiest man in Savannah. Several weeks were spent visiting their Stiles aunts and cousins at Etowah Cliffs. Andrew Low I (1779 – 1849) never married and by 1829 was aging.

Historic house museum in Savannah, Georgia giving life to local, national, and international history. Lafayette Neighbor Architecture $26, November 5, 19 (Father and one brother would be seriously wounded but recover.) Andrew Low II applied himself and within two years was publicly listed as agent for his uncle’s company. Cotton would be bought by the Savannah company and sold through its partner company in Liverpool. If Mary Low had lived, the family might have stayed in Savannah. Mary Low’s family, the Stiles, like others in their social class across the south had been ruined by the war. History of Lafayette Square & Ward $26, December 10, 17, 24, 31 About The House Built on a trust lot facing Lafayette Square, the house, enhanced by its original mid-nineteenth century garden, provides a glimpse of the genteel life of nineteenth-century Savannah in … Though charmingly romantic by day, Savannah becomes altogether spookier after sundown. He regularly traveled to Liverpool on business and also to Brighton, where Amy, now 14 and Hattie, age 12 were in boarding school. Andrew Low II died at his home, Beauchamp Hall, in Leamington,England on June 27, 1886. As a boy, Andrew probably attended a local school and helped in his father’s store. The house is well preserved with appointed rooms filled with a fine collection of furniture and artwork. He had the means to stay or go. Fort Pulaski, near the mouth of the Savannah River, had fallen and even daring blockade runners no longer attempted to pass. Opportunity brought him to Savannah in 1829 and he became the wealthiest man in Savannah. The next several years were primarily devoted to business. It includes examples of works by some of America’s most prestigious furniture makers including Duncan Phyfe, Joseph Barry, Joseph Meeks, Charles-Honore Lannuier, and Michael Allison. In 1857 Andrew Low II wasSavannah’s richest man, with an income of $257,000. Faithful Tom Milledge, his butler since 1844, saw to his comfort and his wife, Mosianna, was an excellent cook. His partner, Robert Isaac had died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1827. Amy was five years- old and Hattie barely four. The cotton trade was roaring in full throttle and continued to do so for the next twenty years, until the Civil War blockade closed the port.

In England, Andrew Low, his business partner, Charles Green, and several other business men met a number of times, in various cities, with their Savannah neighbor, Major Edward Anderson, now Confederate Purchasing Agent in England. Andrew Low II returned to Savannah each fall tending to business and entertaining friends. Hear the rags to riches story of Andrew Low a man William Makepeace Thackeray portrayed as a “great man” and described Low’s home as the most “comfortable accommodations in America”. As you go, learn about the city’s scariest ghost stories, unexplained happenings, and chilling characters. tour a little to include more information about JGL. Built on a trust lot facing Lafayette Square, the house, enhanced by its original mid-nineteenth century garden, provides a glimpse of the genteel life of nineteenth-century Savannah in an urban setting. My daughter and I were the only ones on the tour, so our guide customized our. In July 1847, Andrew Low II purchased the southwest Trustees’ Lot on Lafayette Square and hired John Norris, a New York architect then in the city, supervising building of the new Custom House, to design and build a fine house for his growing family. A special train carried Savannah relatives and guests to the wedding. Occupying the northwest corner of Johnson Square, where the Sun Trust Bank Building is today, it was a two story brick building. That fall the Lows returned to Savannah, where  cotton filled the warehouses on the river but trade was blocked. In 1858, a second daughter, Mary, was born and on August 3, 1860 a son, William Mackay Low, was born in Newport,Rhode Island, where the family was spending the last summer before the coming war. There is someone how gives a short talk about the house and the family, and is available to. In the next few years he joined the St. Andrew’s Society, rented a pew in The Independent Presbyterian Church, and went off to Florida on a brief campaign with the Savannah Blues during the Seminole War. Margaret “Daisy Doots” Gordon, her niece and namesake, was the …