Owen, Samuel

OWEN

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 16:50:12

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.688

OWEN, SAMUEL, farmer, East Washington Township, Sec. 34; P. O. Indianola; was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1806, and emigrated with his parents to Hendricks county, Indiana, in 1826, and came to this county in the spring of 1850, and settled on his present homestead, which he purchased of Harrison Jordan, who had served in the Mexican War; he has been twice married; first in Indiana, in 1833, to Miss Ruth Vestal, of North Carolina, who is now deceased; they had a family of sixteen children, of whom only nine are living: Oliver G., James H., Mary E., Margery L., Ludah A., Ellen M., Malisna H., Edwin J., and Sarah E.; he was married a second time to Betsey A. Haworth, in 1871, who died in 1872; Mr. Owen was raised on a farm, but when grown he learned the carpenters trade, which he followed till twenty-seven years of age, and since has followed his present occupation; he has been a pioneer all his life, having lived in Ohio and Indiana, when they were new and came to this county when it was in its infancy.