Duval County FlArchives Obituaries.....Owens, Albert W.  May 1891
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Ocala Banner (Marion County, Florida): May 22, 1891
Mr. Albert W. Owens, the genial gentleman, brilliant lawyer and talented county
solicitor of Duval county, Jacksonville, died at his mother's residence, at
Millwood, this county, Monday morning. His remains were interred Tuesday afternoon
in the family burying ground, followed by a concourse of several hundred persons,
relatives, neighbors and friends of the deceased… Albert W. Owens was the son of
Col. S. H. Owens, who died four years ago. He was born in Fairfield county, South
Carolina, December 8, 1853, and has been a resident of Florida since 1857. His early
education was obtained at a private school at Winnssboro, S. C. He afterwards
attended the Virginia Military institute. After graduating at that famous
institution of learning he attended the University of Virginia. Upon returning to
Florida he studied law tinder those well-known attorneys, Fleming and Daniel. He was
admitted to the bar of the circuit court in 1878 and practiced in Jacksonville. He
achieved an enviable reputation as a lawyer, and in Feb. 1881, was appointed state
attorney for the fourth judicial circuit of Florida by governor Bloxham. He filled
this office continuously until the organization of the criminal court of record for
Duval county, when he resigned and was appointed county solicitor, which office he
held at the time of his death. At the lime of his death, his mother, Mrs. S. H.
Owens, was at his bedside. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Dr. Lewis and Mrs. Waldo,
besides his mother, to mourn his death. They have the heart felt sympathy of all who
knew their loved one in their sad  bereavement. He was a man always true as steel
and was much admired by all who knew him best. In his death the bar loses one of its
brightest and most honored members. 

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