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Lowell Varner Hammer
Lowell Varner Hammer, son of the Rev. John Domer Hammer
and Edythe Lenore Varner, is a native of
Ligonier,
Pennsylvania. Mr. Hammer was graduated from Pennsylvania
State University with a B.A., and the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy, with an M.A.
Following his graduation from the Pennsylvania State
University in 1950, Mr. Hammer entered the U.S. Army and
served on active duty for three years during the Korean
War. He served first in the enlisted ranks of the
Infantry and after graduation from Officer Candidate
School, he served as a commissioned officer in the Field
Artillery. He then was posted for several months in the
U.S. before being transferred overseas to the Far East
Command. Upon concluding his active duty service in the
fall of 1953, he attended the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy in
Medford,
Massachusetts
where he earned his graduate degree in 1954.
In
August, he went to
Washington,
D.C.
to commence what became a forty year career in the Federal
government. After serving thirty years as an officer in
intelligence, national security and foreign affairs,
Lowell retired in 1985, but returned to government service
shortly thereafter and worked as a consultant for another
ten years. During his government career, he was stationed
abroad in U.S. Embassies in North and Central Africa and
in Western Europe and traveled widely in Africa and
Europe.
During his early
Washington
years, Lowell met Elizabeth Carter Bowers who had just
returned from an overseas assignment and they were married
in 1956. Lowell and Betsy had three children, Sarah
Elizabeth (now Mrs. Jeffrey Haberl), Lowell Carter, and
Christopher Allen (deceased). In 1997, Lowell and Betsy
moved to
Florida
where they resided for nine years before moving to
College Station,
Texas.
As hobbies, in addition to his genealogical and historical
pursuits, Lowell has engaged in oil and water painting,
photography, antique restoration, artifact preservation,
and other art and writing activity.
Society Memberships
*
National Gavel Society
* General Society of Colonial Wars
* Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
(former
Commander-in-Chief)
* Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (former
Commander-in-Chief)
* Colonial Order of the Acorn
* Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
* Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York
* Saint Andrew’s Society of Washington D.C.
* Order Of Lafayette
* National Society Sons of the American Colonists
(former Captain General)
* National Society Sons of the American Revolution
(former President of
the District of Columbia Society)
* General Society Sons of the Revolution (former
President of the District
of Columbia Society)
* National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims
(former Governor of
the District of Columbia Branch)
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and
Patriots (former
Deputy
Governor of the John Randolph Chapter)
* Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
(former Commander of
the District of Columbia Commandery)
* Military Order of the World Wars (former Senior Vice
Commander of the
District of Columbia Chapter)
* Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench
and Bar
* National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* National Society of the First Families of Delmarva
* National Order of the Blue and Gray
* Welsh Society of Philadelphia
*
Military Order of the Carabao
Authorship
* Johann Frantz Hammer Palatine Pioneer in Pennsylvania
and Maryland and
his Descendants,
1999.
* Essays appearing in The Contributor, a
magazine in Melbourne, Florida
* Articles that have appeared in publications of
hereditary, historical, and
genealogical societies and in academic and scholastic journals.
* Personal writings used with my permission by other
authors of family
history/genealogy books.
* Editor and principal writer of newsletter of the 933rd
Field Artillery
Battalion of the 31st Infantry Division.
Chivalric Orders
Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem,
Priory of Saint King
Charles the Martyr
(Inspector)
Listed In
Hereditary Register of the
United States of America
The Social List of
Washington,
D.C.
Other Notes
Sons
of Veterans Reserve (Inspector General)
National Congress of Patriotic Organizations
(Regent)
Provincial Families of Maryland
Clan Maxwell
Clan McAlister
American Legion,
Paris Post #1
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Maryland
Dept.
Army and Navy Union
Honorable Order of
Kentucky Colonels
Patriotic Order Sons of
America
Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity (Secretary, Zeta
Chapter)
Delta Sigma Phi, international business and finance
professional fraternity
Pi Lambda Sigma, political science/pre-legal honorary
fraternity
(Secretary/Treasurer)
Order of DeMolay (Past Master Councilor)
Lincoln Group of the
District of Columbia
Lincoln
Fellowship of Pennsylvania
Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites
(Advisory Board Member)
Civil War Preservation Trust
Lincoln
Commission of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
(Associate
Chairman)
Lincoln
Birthday National Commemorative Committee (Chairman)
American Foreign Service Association
Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired
American Foreign Service Club
DACOR/Bacon House
Army and Navy Club of
Washington,
D.C.
Fletcher Alumni Association (President, D.C.
Chapter)
Penn
State
Alumni Association
Covenant Presbyterian Church (Current church
affiliation)
Numerous international, national, state, county and local
historical and genealogical societies. |
