Edwin Lowden Lowe was one of the co-founders of the City of Plainview. Born in Mississippi, he married Virginia Archer in Louisiana, studied law, joined the bar in Arkansas, and served in the Arkansas Legislature from 1879 to 1881. In the 1880s he came to Texas, but his wife died en route while the wagon train halted at Buffalo Gap. Lowe then joined his friend, Z. T. Maxwell, at Hackberry Groves here, and each gave land to establish the county seat. Lowe became Plainview's first postmaster, and he had two daughters.