Overstreet, Jesse – Owen, William Miller
Overstreet, Jesse
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1859, in Johnson county, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1886; and is a successful lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Overton, Edward
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in Towanda, Pa. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1864, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.
Overton, Walter H
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1829 to 1831.
Owen, Abraham
soldier, jurist, legislator, was born in 1769 in Prince Edward county, Va. He was surveyor of Shelby county in 1796, subsequently a magistrate, and colonel of the first militia regiment raised in Kentucky. He was in the legislature in 1798, a member of the state constitutional convention the next year, and state senator in 1810. He died Nov. 7, 1811, in Tippecanoe county, Ind.
Owen, Alfred
clergyman, college president, was born July 20, 1829, in China, Maine. He has filled pastorates in various cities and for several years was president of the Denison university of Granville, Ohio. He is now president of the Roger Williams university of Nashville, Tenn.
Owen, Allen F
diplomat, congressman, was born in North Carolina. He moved to Georgia; and was elected a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851. He was subsequently appointed consul at Havana.
Owen, David Dale
geologist, author, was born June 24, 1807, in Scotland. He was state geologist of Indiana; and the author of Report of a Geological Survey of Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; and Report of a Geological Reconnoissance. He died Nov. 13, 1860, in New Harmony, Ind.
Owen, Francis Browning
lawyer, poet, was born in October, 1830, in Macomb county, Mich. He attended the Branch university of Ann Arbor, Mich., and has attained success as a noted lawyer in Berrien Springs, Mich. He is the author of The Legend of Winona; Poems; Columbia, and Other Poems; Two Bells; Forty Sonnets; and other poetical works.
Owen, George W
congressman, was born in 1798 in Brunswick county, Va.
He was a speaker of the house of representatives in Alabama; and mayor of Mobile. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1829, when he was appointed collector of the port of Mobile. He died Aug. 18, 1839, in Mobile, Ala.
Owen, James
planter, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1784 in Bladen county, N. C. He was a general of militia; and was four years a member of the legislature. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1817 to 1819. He died Sept. 4, 1865, in Wilmington, N. C.
Owen, John
planter, state legislator, governor, was born in August, 1787, in Bladen county, N. C. He was in the legislature in 1812-28; and was elected governor of North Carolina in the latter year. He died Oct. 12, 1841, in Pittsburg, N. C.
Owen, John
publisher, was born March 28, 1805, in Portland, Maine. He aided Mr. Longfellow in the preparation of his Poems of Places, especially in verifying authorship. He was also the friend and literary adviser of Charles Sumner, and induced him to publish his writings in a uniform edition. He died April 22, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
Owen, John Jason
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 13, 1803, in Colebrook, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator of New York city; and the author of Commentary on the Gospels; Acts of the Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of Xenophon, Thucydides, and Homer. He died April 18, 1869, in New York city.
Owen, Joshua Thomas
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, journalist, was born March 29, 1821, in Wales. He founded in 1871 the New York Daily Register, a law journal, which became the official organ of the New York courts in 1873, and he continued on its editorial staff until his death. He died Nov. 7, 1887, in Chestnut Hill, Pa.
Owen, Mary Alicia
author. Her work entitled Voodoo Tales has been a pronounced success in America and Europe. She has also written a book entitled Voodoo Magic, for the English Folk-Lore Society; and a novel of Indian life entitled The Daughter of Alon ette; and she is also the author of Myths, Customs and Ceremonials of the Algonquin Tribes in the Middle West.
Since 1892 she has read many papers on Indian life before eastern and southern audiences; and she possesses one of the largest collections of Indian beadwork in the world.
Owen, Moses
poet, was born in 1838, in Bath, Maine. He was the author of a volume of poems entitled Plymouth Church, and Other Poems. He died in November, 1878, in Augusta, Maine.
Owen, Richard
geologist, author, was born Jan. 6, 1810, in Scotland. He was a geologist of New Harmony, Ind.
He succeeded his brother David as state geologist in 1860, and was author of a Key to the Geology of the Globe. He died in 1890.
Owen, Robert
social reformer, philanthropist, was born May 14, 1771, in North Wales. He endeavored to embody his social reform principles in a community three times, the last at New Harmony, Ind., but they were all unsuccessful. His followers bore the name of Owenites, from which sprang the English Chartists. He died Nov. 19, 1858, in North Wales.
Owen, Robert Dale
state legislator, congressman, author, was born Nov. 9, 1800, in Scotland. In 1835 he was chosen to the Indiana legislature, and twice re-elected. In 1843 he was elected a representative in congress from Indiana, and re-elected in 1845. In 1853 he was appointed minister to Naples. He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of spiritualism. He was the author of Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral Physiology; Popular Traits: Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel; Threading my Way; and Debatable Land between this World and the Next. He died June 17, 1877, on Lake George, N. Y.
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.
Owen, Samuel Joseph
farmer, journalist, was born Dec. 30, 1867, near Blue Mountain, Miss. He is a successful farmer and editor and publisher of The Southern Sentinel of Ripley, Miss. He has filled various offices of trust in his county and state; and is prominent in religious affairs. was
Owen, Timothy S
educator, lawyer, author, was born July 18, 1865, near Peytonsburg, Ky. He obtained a common school education and engaged in teaching in the public schools of his native county for three years. He attended the National Normal university at Lebanon, Ohio; studied law and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of the state of Ohio in 1893. He has built up a very lucrative law practice in Muncie, Ind.; and is one of the prominent republican speakers of his section of the country. He was engaged in a number of joint discussions with the best orators and speakers of the democratic party and advocates of free silver.
Owen, William D
clergyman, congressman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1846, in Bloomington, Ind. He entered the ministry of the Christian church, and removed to Logansport in 1881. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican. He was engaged in literary pursuits, being the author, among other writings, of Success in Life; and The Genius of Industry.
Owen, William Miller
soldier, author, was born Jan. 10, 1832, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the confederate army with the Washington artillery of New Orleans. In 1890 he assisted Mrs.
Jefferson Davis in the preparation of the military chapters of her Memoir of her husband. He is the author of In Camp and Battle with the Washington Artillery. He died Jan. 10,1893, in New Orleans.