OWEN, ROBERT S.

OWEN, PECK

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 22:06:26

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP

OWEN, ROBERT S., pilot, Montrose; owns a farm in Sec. 15; was born in Indiana in 1830 ; his father removed to Missouri in 1838 ; to Quincy, Ill., in 1839 ; to Montrose the same year. Mr. Owen married, in 1856, Eliza A. Peck, a native of Massachusetts ; her father came to Lee Co. in 1838 ; they have one son—Zack, born in 1857 ; Mr. Owen has been a pilot on the Rapids, between Montrose and Keokuk, since 1852.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879