Dr. J.E. Owings Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB 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. ********************************************************************** Submitted By Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Dr. E. J. Owings: farmer; was born in Ohio in 1838, and raised in Grant County, Indiana. Educated at Marion, Indiana. Read medicine and attended the Medical College at Cincinnati. Practiced ten years in the state above mentioned. In 1865 he migrated to Wheeling, West Virginia, and in 1868, came to Hancock County; married Miss Elizabeth Campbell daughter of David Campbell in 1868; he then settled in the Cove, following his profession until 1874, then he moved on the farm where they are now living. They have a family of three children -- two sons and one daughter.