Edward Owens Biography


	This biography appears on pages 690-691 in "History of Dakota 
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				EDWARD OWENS. 

	Edward Owens is a resident farmer of Lake county, living on 
section 8, Herman township. He was born in Portage, Wisconsin, on the 
3d of June, 1866, and is a son of Owen D. and Grace Owens, of whom 
mention is made elsewhere in this volume. At the usual age he entered 
the public schools and mastered the branches of learning therein 
taught. The family came to South Dakota in 1876 and the father 
homesteaded a claim. Through the period of his youth Edward Owens 
assisted in developing and cultivating that property and later began 
farming on his own account about 1891. He was twenty-four years of age 
when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section 5, Herman 
township, to which he afterward added eighty acres on section 8 and ten 
acres where his home now stands. Since he began farming he has been 
very successful. His place is equipped with all modern improvements and 
farm machinery and the neat and attractive appearance of his place 
indicates his careful management and practical, progressive efforts. He 
specializes in the raising of white faced Hereford cows, of which he 
has twenty head, and he is also extensively engaged in raising hogs, 
stock-raising being an important feature of his business. He is one of 
the pioneers of his section of the state, having settled here when the 
entire district was nothing but prairie. 

	On the 14th of October, 1897, Mr. Owens was united in marriage to 
Miss Rella Tyrrell, a daughter of Preston and Frances (Hasner) Tyrrell 
and a representative of an honored pioneer family of South Dakota. They 
have two sons: Mark Vernon, who was born on the 27th of August, 1904, 
and now attends school in Junius; and Glenn Edward. 

	Mr. Owens and his wife hold membership in the Methodist church 
and take an active part in promoting the moral development of the 
community. In politics he is a republican but without aspiration for 
office, although he has served as road supervisor. He has taken all the 
degrees of Odd Fellowship, holding membership in Madison Lodge. He is a 
stockholder in the Farmers Elevator of Junius and is interested in all 
that tends to promote the material development of South Dakota, where 
he has now made his home for almost four decades. He has witnessed much 
of the growth and improvement of the section in which he resides and 
has lived to see the wild prairie converted into fine farms which are 
the homes of a contented and prosperous people. Here and there thriving 
towns and villages have sprung up and there is every indication of 
advancement. Mr. Owens stands for all that is progressive and he is 
widely and favorably known in Lake county.