Curry County NM Archives Biographies.....Owen, O. L. 
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Author: R. L. Polk (1912)

O. L. OWEN.

  Hon. O. L. Owen, Democratic State Corporation Commissioner of New Mexico, was
born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, October 1st, 1876, moved to Kansas with his parents in
1879. There he grew to manhood on a farm, receiving his education in the public
schools, and at the Central Normal College, at Great Bend, Kansas. Taught school
in the years 1896 and 1897 in Lane County, Kansas. Was bookkeeper for the Swift
& Holliday Drug Company at Topeka, Kansas, in 1898.

  Began railroad work with the Santa Fe Ry. in 1899 on the construction of the
Bartlesville branch, and continued in that service in the capacity of office
engineer until 1908. He is thoroughly familiar with the accounting, construction
and operating departments of railroad work. In 1908 he resigned his position
with the Santa Fe company and engaged in the real estate business at Clovis, N.
M., later engaged in the wholesale fruit and produce business at the same place
under the name of The New Mexico Produce & Grocer Co. He has been actively
engaged in the organization of the Clovis Lumber Co., Clovis Journal Publishing
Co., First National Banks at Melrose, N. M. and Clovis, N. M. He was elected to
the office of City Treasurer of the city of Clovis and served in that office in
the years 1909 and 1910 during a period of municipal improvement expending
$150,000. Has been largely interested in the upbuilding of Clovis and eastern
New Mexico during his seven years of residence in the Territory. Is a 32d degree
Mason, Elk and Modern Woodman of America.


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POLK'S NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA
PICTORIAL STATE GAZETTEER
AND
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
FIRST STATEHOOD EDITION
1912-1913
VOLUME NO. 1
R L. POLK & CO., PUBLISHERS
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