CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Owen
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Owen

  Owen and Jane Owen of Augusta county were among the early settlers of
Lynchburg, where they established a school, which nearly every child in the city
attended. This institution is said to have been one of the first in Virginia to
adopt the use of Webster's Spelling Book at a time when his pronunciation and
manner of dividing words was ridiculed.

  Mr. and Mrs. Owen brought to the town influences which greatly advanced its
prosperity and refinement, in their love of flowers, drawing and painting, which
latter arts were taught together with plain and fancy needlework in the school.
The Owens also established a circulating library which fostered a taste for the
best writings as the Owens Circulating Library afforded facilities for making
many readers acquainted with the standard authors and stimulated them to pursue
their reading still further. Mrs. Owen survived her husband many years and
continued the school after his death. Of their children:

-Sarah married ______ Hughes, died in 182O, leaving children.

—Benjamin Franklin, and —Septimus D. died young.

—Dr. William married Jane Latham of Culpeper county;—a sister married Dr. Henry
Latham who established himself in Lynchburg where he pursued the practice of
medicine. Many of the Owen connection devoted themselves to that choice of
profession; Dr. Gray Latham, son of Dr. Henry, was one of this group. Dr.
William Otway, son of Dr. William Owen, Sr. achieved much distinction in his
practice. Colonel Robert Owen, another son of William, Sr., was for many years
president of the Norfolk and Wrestern Railway Company; his son, William (dec.)
was in the Medical Department U. S. Army with the title of colonel; a second
son, Robert, Jr., has long been a United States Senator and resident in
Washington City many years.


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