Abbot Augustus Low (Gus Low)
(1844–1912) was an entrepreneur and inventor from
Brooklyn
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, who lived in
St. Lawrence County,
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and was the owner of the Horseshoe Forestry Company.
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February 1, 2005 New York State Conservationist He was the son of
Abiel Abbot Low
Abiel Abbot Low (February 7, 1811 – January 7, 1893) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, trader and philanthropist who gained most of his fortune from the China trade, importing teas, porcelains, and silk, and building and operating a ...
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Brother of ex-Mayor Seth Low and Director in Many Corporations September 26, 1912. New York Times and owned in an area of upstate New York known as Horseshoe, located on the Western shore of
Horseshoe Lake, in
Piercefield, New York
Piercefield is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 310 at the 2010 census.
The Town of Piercefield is in the southeastern corner of the county and is southeast of Canton.
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Colton, New York
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Low was an inventor and held various patents, such as a means of preserving
maple sugar
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, a motor, an exhaust system,
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and a bottle. Low filed a patent application in 1909 for a "waste-paper receptacle" that is believed to have been the first paper shredder. It received the U.S. patent number 929,960 on August 31, 1909, but was never manufactured. When Low died, the only inventor with more patents registered than him was Thomas Edison.
Low's property around Lows Lake, also known as the Bog River Flow, included a narrow gauge railroad, a blacksmith shop, an energy generating plant, a stable, an engine house, storehouses, maple sugaring buildings, employee housing and boathouses.
Low developed the property with two dams to produce electricity and aid annual
log driving
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It is now part of the Bog River Management Unit in
Adirondack Park
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Low's business enterprises included spring water production, maple syrup, wild berry preserve and wood products.
Abbot Low and his brother
Seth Low
Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885, the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901, a diplomatic representative of t ...
, president of
Columbia University
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[ and later mayor of New York City, built a hospital in Wu-Chang, China in memory of their father, Abiel Abbot Low, a "successful" merchant in Canton.Memorial hospital in China]
Built in Wu-Chang by the Sons of Abiel Augustus Low October 22, 1894, page 10 New York Times
Legacy
Lows Lake, a man-made lake created by Low with two dams (built in 1903 and 1907), is named after Low.
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1844 births
1912 deaths
19th-century American inventors
20th-century American inventors