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Gerald Lowe grew up with his three brothers in New Jersey, while his father "commuted" to San Francisco. When Gerald was eight, they and their mother joined their father in San Francisco. He lived there until he was in his early twenties, when his father sent him to Betts Academy in Stamford, Connecticut, to receive a proper education. Here, he met a young French girl, Helene Francoise Badarous. Helene was also living in San Francisco at the time, but most have been back East visiting. They were married at Stamford on 18 June 1874.
Their first three children were born in New Jersey and New York. About 1882, however, they moved their family back to San Francisco where their youngest son, Frank, was born. In San Francisco, Gerald worked as a teller at the Anglo-California Bank. About 1883, Gerald and Helen were divorced. Helen married a noted attorney, Edwin G. Knapp, as her second husband, and she pursued a career as a journalist with local newspapers. In the 1890s she contracte tuberculosis and was sent to a sanitarium at St. Helen's in the California mountains north of San Francisco. She died there on 27 December 1896. Hearing of his mother's dire condition, Frank Lowe drove a horse and buggy into the hills on Christmas, in time to visit his mother just before she died. Helen Kanpp is buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park in San Jose, California.
Gerald had moved to Utah in the 1890s, joining his younger brother, DeWitt Lowe, in the Lowe Brokerage Company at Salt Lake City. He died at Provo, Utah, on Christmas Eve, 1904. Gerald A. lowe is buried in the Provo City Cemetery.