C. W. Owen, Rapides Parish, La
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     C. W. OWEN, merchant, Cheneyville, La.  It is difficult for any one
unfamiliar with merchandising to form a correct estimate of the magnitude
of the trade in Cheneyville.  Among those whose knowledge, courage and
resolution have met with signal success may be mentioned Mr. C. W. Owen,
who is one of the prominent merchants of the town.  Although he has been
here but one year, he has already won a large patronage.  He was born in
Alabama, and there his youth and boyhood were spent.  He was educated in
New Orleans, and became agent for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at
this point in 1880.  This position he held for ten years, and was joint
agent for the Union Pacific and Texas Pacific Railroads, being their agent
at New Iberia two years of that time.  He married Miss Claudia Pierce,
daughter of Hon. S. S. Pierce, of Avoyelles Parish, La., and to this union
have been born two children:  Claude P. and Chauncey H.  Mr. Owen engaged
in merchandising shortly after his marriage, and this has occupied his
attention ever since.  He is a Master Mason, and in politics is Democratic.
 He is the son of John and Susannah (Frasier) Owen, the father a native of
Georgia, but who resided in Mobile, Ala., the principal part of his life.
He was a steamboat man, and was the owner of several steamers.  The
maternal grandfather was a French Huguenot.