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Owen, Robert Latham

lawyer, politician, banker, was born Feb. 2, 1856, in Lynchburg, Va. He attended the Washington and Lee university of Lexington, Va.; took the debaters' medal, the president's dent's scholarship; was valedictorian of his class; and in 1877 received the degree of A. M. He then taught school in Baltimore, and in the Cherokee Orphan asylum. He edited the Indian Chieftain; was secretary of the Old Settlers of Cherokee; was secretary of the board of education of the Cherokee nation; president of the Indian International Fair association; was United States Indian agent to the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles. He served as secretary of the first bar association in Indian territory; founded and became president of the First National bank of Muskogee in 1890; and was fiscal agent for the Choctaw nation with a one-milliondollar bond in 1889. Mr. Owen has distinguished himself by diplomatic services rendered the Indians of the Indian territory; framed the present school laws of the Cherokee nation, and organized on improved lines their schools.