BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles J. OWEN, North Menomonie, Dunn Co., WI

*********************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be
reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other 
organization or persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use 
this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor,
or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed
USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given
permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently 
for free access.

Submitted by:  Laura Abood <wabood@msn.com>  20 November 2004
*********************************************************************

Charles J. OWEN, deputy sheriff of Dunn County, residing in North
Menomonie, was born in Farmington, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, Sept. 5,
1860, son of Isaac B. and Julia A. (Marks) Owen.  The father was
native of New York State and the mother of Pennsylvania.  While
living in Penn.  Isaac B. Owen followed farming.  In 1872, he brought
his family to Dunn County, Wis., locating at Cedar Falls, in the town
of Red Cedar, where he engaged in general contracting and building
and was thus occupied in that locality up to 1878.  He then moved to
Minneapolis and later in Spokane, Wash., where he continued in the
building business until he was 80 years old.  He died at the age of
84.  His wife Julia died in Dunn County in 1874, when only 33 years
of age and is buried at Cedar Falls.  Charles J. Owen attended public
school in Pennsylvania and also at Cedar Falls, Dunn Co., Wis.  He
remained with his parents, and after his mother's death, with his
father, until the latter left Dunn County.  He then entered the mills
to learn the trade of sawyer, at first learning to saw shingles and
later running band and rotary saws on general work.  He was with the
Cedar Falls Manufacturing Co. and for several years with the Knapp,
Stout & Co. Company, remaining with the latter company until they
closed out their business.  After that he worked for other companies
in a similar position until 1905.  In that year he changed his
occupation, going to New Richmond, Wis., where he was proprietor of
the National Hotel for one year and later for eight years of the
Central Hotel.  In 1913 he returned to Menomonie, where he has since
resided.  While living in the town of Red Cedar, Mr. Owen in 1896-97
was a member of the town board.  He was deputy sheriff in 1919-20,
was then elected sheriff to serve in 1921-22, and being again
appointed deputy, is now serving in that office.  He is also
supervisor from the ward of North Menomonie and by virtue of that
office is a member of the county board and helps to shape the
policies of local government.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.  Mr. Owen was married Oct.
17, 1881, to Roxy Lenora Hawley of Menomonie, who, after 32 years of
married life, during which she discharged her full duties as wife and
mother, died Nov. 30, 1913.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. Owen, seven
in number, have been as follows:  Harry N., now of St. Paul, Minn.,
who married Mary Quinlan and is the father of four children, Alice,
Harriet, Howard and Lloyd; Mark, who died at the age of 11 months;
George, of Eau Claire, Wis., who married Louis La Marsh; Nellie L.,
who married E. D. Wells and resides at Carlisle, Mont., has six
children, Eva, Geraldine, Charles, Grenfall, Lemuel and Loraine;
William R., who now lives in Denver, Colo., married Gladys Stratton
of New Auburn, Wis., and has three children, Harry, June and John;
Charles Lemuel, who was killed in France in the Great World War; and
Beatrice Loraine, who is a student in the Menomonie High School.  The
family residence is at No. 14 Railroad Avenue and their church is the
Methodist Episcopal.  The personal record of Charles Lemuel Owen,
including war service, is as follows:  He was born at Cedar Falls,
Dunn County, July 19, 1897.  From 1905 to 1913 he attended school in
New Richmond, residing with his parents, and he was one of the first
boy scouts to enroll in that city.  He subsequently lived at New
Auburn and in 1914 again took up his home in Dunn County, at North
Menomonie.  In 1916 he enlisted for military service in Company H,
and during the summer of that year served on the Mexican border. 
Early in 1917 after the United States entered the World War, and when
his company was stationed at Superior, Wis., he was promoted to the
rank of corporal, was subsequently stationed at Waco, Texas, and
served in France as a member of Company H, 128th Inf., 32d Division. 
He was killed in action Oct. 20, 1918.  In 1921 his father brought
his remains back to America and he was buried with military honors in
Cedar Falls cemetery.
 
-Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page
706

© All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm