Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Owen, Evan R. 1867 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

EVAN R. OWEN.

    Evan R. Owen, division manager for the Utah Power & Light Company, was born
in Wellsville, Utah, June 14, 1867, and is a representative of one of the
substantial families that Wales has furnished to this state. His father, Evan
Owen, was a native of Wales and came to America about 1854. He first settled in
Iron county, Utah, and in 1863 became a resident of Cache county, where he
continued to make his home until his death, which occurred when he was
seventy-three years of age. He devoted his time and energies to ranching and
cattle raising and was very successful in the conduct of his business. An active
churchman, he was counselor to Bishop William H. Maughan for twenty years. He
married Elizabeth Walters, a native of Wales, who came to America about 1854 in
company with her parents, who established their home in Wellsville, where Mr.
and Mrs. Owen became acquainted and were married. Their family numbered four
sons and three daughters, of whom Evan R. is the second in order of birth. The
mother is still living and occupies the old home at Wellsville.

    At the usual age Evan R. Owen became a pupil in the district schools of
Cache county and after mastering the branches of learning therein taught entered
the Brigham Young College at Logan, from which he was graduated with the class
of 1887. He next became a student in the University of Utah. Following his
graduation he taught school for fourteen years and proved an able educator,
imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He
next turned his attention to merchandising in Wellsville, carrying a general
line of goods and meeting with success during the five years in which he
remained a factor in the commercial circles of that city. He next became a
representative of the Utah Power & Light Company. He entered the service of that
corporation as right of way and claim agent and from that position has worked
his way steadily upward, being advanced by various promotions until he is now
division manager at Logan, a place of large responsibility and importance. He is
also a director of the Thatcher Brothers Banking Company of Logan.

    Mr. Owen was married in Logan Temple to Miss Lizzie Benson, a daughter of
the late Apostle Ezra T. and Elizabeth (Gollier) Benson, mentioned elsewhere in
this work. Mr. and Mrs. Owen have four sons and four daughters: Alta, now the
wife of Roy T. Shaw, of Garland, Boxelder county; Cyrio B., a lieutenant of the
Coast Artillery Corps now on active duty in France and a graduate of the Utah
Agricultural College; Gretel B., the wife of Leo Hansen, a resident of Logan,
Utah; and Leslie B., Luella, Lucille, Ezra and Fred B.

    Mr. Owen's work for the church has taken definite form and he was bishop for
nine years in the Wellsville ward and also served on a mission to Great Britain
from 1898 to 1900. During that period he was president of the Welsh Conference.

    In politics Mr. Owen is a stalwart democrat and when but twenty-one years of
age was made mayor of Wellsville. Notwithstanding his youth he made so splendid
a record that he was reelected for a second term and continued as the chief
executive of that city for four years, being the first democratic mayor of
Wellsville. He was also at one time a candidate for the office of secretary of
state on the democratic ticket and he has been a most prominent representative
of the democratic party In Utah. He served as a member of the democratic state
central committee and has long been very active in political and civic affairs.
During the period of the war he was a member of the City and County Council of
Defense and was county food administrator for Cache county. He is also a member
of the Logan Commercial Club and for the past three years has been its
president. He Is a man of unbounded energy, carrying forward to successful
completion whatever he undertakes in the upbuilding of his business affairs and
in the advancement of civic interests. He has served as trustee of the Utah
Agricultural College for four years and is a stanch supporter of every plan and
measure that has to do with the upbuilding and development of the community,
commonwealth and country.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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