BIOGRAPHY: John OWENS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 342
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JOHN OWENS, a merchant of Ebensburg, this county, is a son of Edward Owens, 
whose sketch appears elsewhere. He was born July 15, 1849, on the high seas, his 
parents being on their voyage from Wales to the United States.
     He received the advantages of a common school education in the schools of 
Cambria township. After leaving school and when he commenced the battle of life 
on his own account, he took up lumbering, and pursued it until 1879, when, in 
February of that year, he embarked in mercantile pursuits in Ebensburg, and has 
pursued that line of business to the present time.
     In political matters Mr. Owens is a republican, and has served in local 
offices. Fraternally he is a member of Highland Lodge, No. 428, I.0.0.F.; and of 
Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M.
     November 8, 1878, Mr. Owens and Mary Gettings, daughter of Richard 
Gettings, of Ebensburg, were married, and to this union have been born the 
following children: Annie E., Richard, Mildred, Gussie, William, Louie, and 
Eddie, who died young.