Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Owens, Jared D. July 25 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
  DR. JARED D. OWENS was born July 25, 1848, in Glenville, Barbour county, Ala.,
and is the son of T. C. and Emily E. Owens. Receiving a fair education in the
schools of his native county, the doctor, at the age of twenty, gratified his
desire to prepare for the medical profession by entering the office of Dr. J. C.
Kendrick, of Greenville, under whose instructions he continued for less than one
year. Being called upon one day to assist in a surgical operation, he conceived
such a dislike for the profession that he concluded to drop the study and select
some other calling for a life work. This he did, and for some time thereafter
was engaged in farming and the timber business, in the latter of which he was
quite successful until 1873, when he lost the greater part of his possessions in
the great panic of that year. During the interval between 1873 and 1876 he was
engaged in farming, and in the latter year he resumed the study of medicine and
in 1877 entered the Alabama Medical college at Mobile, faom which he graduated
in 1879. Receiving his degree, he engaged in the practice of his chosen calling
near Manningham, Butler county, Ala., on Cedar creek, and has practiced in the
same neighborhood ever since. He has become very proficient as a practitioner,
and occupies a commendable standing among his professional brethren of southern
Alabama, who have upon different occasions elected him a representative in the
State Medical association, and at different times elected him president of his
county medical society. The doctor was married November 17, 1868, in Butler
county, to Jeanette, daughter of Dr. G. W. Esselmen, and is the father of eight
children, whose names are as follows: Emma, wife of Robert E. Peagler; Anna L.,
wife of W. C. Coleman; Birdie I., wife of William F. Crenshaw; Jared D., Jr.;
Helen V., Katie Lilian, Jeanette E. and Ethel E. The doctor's political
affiliations are with the democratic party, and fraternally he is identified
with the Masonic and K. of H. orders. He and Mrs. Owens are communicants of the
Baptist church. Paternally, Dr. Owens is descended from the sturdy Scotch-Irish
emigrants that settled in South Carolina in the time of the colonies, of which
state his grandfather, Whitman H. Owens, was a native. Whitman Owens emigrated
to Georgia when a young man, served as captain in the Indian war under Jackson,
and was one of the surveyors that subdivided the state of Georgia into
congressional townships. He became a resident of Alabama early in the '20's,
settling in Glenville, Barbour county, where he became a large land owner and
was one of the principal promoters of the Mobile & Girard railroad, in which he
owned a large amount of stock. In 1856, he divided his large property among his
children, retiring from active life, and died at the home of one of his sons,
Judge Hasting E. Owens, in Henry county, in 1870. Col. T. C. Owens, the doctor's
father, was a native of Decatur county, Ga., born about the year 1822. He became
a prominent planter and large slave-holder, took active part in politics as a
whig, and was a bitter opponent of secession in the years immediately preceding
the great Civil war. He married in 1843, in Glenville, Ala., Emily E. Dennard,
daughter of Jared Dennard, a wealthy planter and slave-holder of Georgia, who
subsequently moved to Texas, in which state his death occurred. T. C. and Emily
Owens resided in Barbour county until after the birth of all their children, and
in 1856 moved to Butler county, locating in the southeastern portion, where they
lived until breaking up house-keeping a few years ago. Mr. Owens, while on a
prospecting tour in Mississippi, died in 1889. His widow still survives, making
her home with her son, Dr. Jared D. Owens. Col. and Mrs. Owens were the parents
of five children-two boys and three girls. The eldest, Henry V., is a mute, and
a highly educated and accomplished gentleman, holding at this time a responsible
clerkship in a large wholesale establishment; Mary Laura, also a mute, is a,
widow, now living in the family of her brother, the doctor. Eliza J., who is
similarly afflicted, is the wife of Henry Brundage of Greenville, Ala. The
youngest daughter, Mattie P., is the wife of J. T. Butts, and resides at
Manningham, Ala. The peculiar affliction of the three members of Mr. Owen's
family was the source of great concern to the father, who spared neither money
nor pains in giving them the very best education attain-able. He expended
several thousand dollars in their behalf, sent them to the very best
institutions, both north and south, and also secured the services of an
accomplished private tutor to teach them at home. The second daughter, Mrs.
Brundage, whose husband is also a mute, is the mother of several exceedingly
bright children, who so far have manifested no indications of their parents'
peculiar malady.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 568-570

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