For Francis Lowell, the two years following the war were professionally busy and lucrative. Personally, he was much less fortunate. His wife died in May of 1815 and soon after he himself became an invalid. He tried the waters of Ballston Spa, but came back from his stay sicker than when he went in. “He died in Boston on August 10, 1817, at the age of forty-two. In his short life he had done more than any other member of his effective family to swell the pocketbook of New England and shape its economic future.�30
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