Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Owen, Dubois F. February 22, 1870 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.49-50  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        DUBOIS FISH OWEN. The history of the career of DUBOIS FISH OWEN reads 
like a romance, and yet it is founded upon absolute fact, and every advance 
made by him has come as the just reward of hard work and thrift, intelligently 
directed in investments soundly made, until he stands today is one of the sound 
and dependable business men of Tampa. His mistakes have been very few, for he 
is an excellent judge of human nature, and has known how to secure the support 
of his fellow-citizens in his different business ventures. Today Mr. Owen is 
vice president of the Bank of Commerce, which he helped to organize; is owner 
of the Owen Franklin Motor Company; a partner in the firm of D. F. Owen Company 
and of the Owen-Job Company, and owns stock in other enterprises of the city.
	The birth of DUBOIS FISH OWEN occurred in Newton County, Georgia, 
February 22, 1870. After a boyhood and youth spent in his native place, in 1893 
he came to Tampa, and for a while was engaged as a typewriter salesman, but 
later became a solicitor in the passenger department of the F. C. & R. 
Railroad. Going into the automobile business, Mr. Owen first handled Fords, but 
is now the representative in this locality for the Franklin cars, and has been 
since 1919. Assisting in the organization of the Bank of Commerce of Tampa, Mr. 
Owen was one of the original stockholders, and is deeply interested in its 
welfare. He is a member of the Tampa Board of Trade and the Tampa Automobile 
Club, and assisted in organizing the latter.
	In 1908 Mr. Owen married Miss ALMA NANCE, of Ripley, Mississippi, and 
they have one son, MARCUS N., a bright lad of thirteen years. Occasionally 
there comes into the world a modest but intensely earnest man, who wrests from 
his everyday surroundings the victory of noble achievement, and Mr. Owen 
belongs to this class. From early boyhood he has been vigorous and healthy, but 
the family circumstances were such, owing to his father’s early demise, that 
his schooling was rather desultory, so that his development has been entirely 
of his own creation, and because of this he is entitled to the credit accorded 
him by those who know him best, and to the prosperity which is now his.


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