Shelby County, KY - Bios:  Owen, William M.
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William M.OWEN 4500, Shelby Co. 

Surname: Owen, Martin, Cheatham, James

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

WILLIAM M. OWEN, a native of Shelby County, Ky., was born January 29, 1850, and is the only son 
of Jacob M. and Emily F. (Martin) Owen. William Owen, his paternal grandfather, came from 
Virginia about 1790, and settled on a farm one mile southeast of Shelbyville, and his maternal 
grandfather, William Martin, also a pioneer, was a hatter. Jacob M. Owen was born in 1807, was 
county sheriff in 1832, and in celebrating Washington's birthday, in the latter year, lost his 
arm by the accidental explosion of a cannon. His death occurred in March, 1879. William M. Owen 
was educated at Shelby College and at the university at Millersburg. He graduated from the latter 
in January, 1869, and began business as clerk in the drug store of his father (the firm being 
Winlock & Owen), and in January, 1873, became partner. In November, 1872, he married Miss 
Catherine, daughter of Dr. W. H. Cheatham, of Louisville, and to this marriage have been born 
Henry M. Owen, December 20, 1873; Jacob M., born August 19, 1875, and William Beckham, born 
February 23, 1878. Mr. Owen is treasurer of the State board, Louisville and Lexington Turnpike 
Company, and of the Shelby County Horse Association. An uncle of Mr. Owen, R. A. Martin, a native 
of Shelbyville, Ky., was killed by the notorious James brothers in March, 1872, he then being 
cashier of a bank in Columbia, Ky., and refusing a surrender of its treasure to the gang.
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