MR. DAVID OWEN. CALEDONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Farmer, Sec. 21; P. 0. Portage City; born May 13, 1828, in Merionethshire. North Wales; son of John Owen, who came to America in the spring of 1846, settled in Caledonia in September of the same year, and died in 1865, aged 42.David came to Caledonia with his father, and has resided in the town ever since. He was married December 25th, 1850, to Jane Roberts, daughter of Hugh Roberts, who came to Caledonia in 1847; she was born in 1832, in Oneida County, N. Y.
Mr. Owen has seven children — John A. (living on Sec. 17, Caledonia), Winnie, Roger, Maggie, Sarah, Owen and Anna; Roger and Winnie live in Howard County, Iowa, where Mr. Owen has a 240-acre farm; lost three children, died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen are members of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church; he is a Republican, and has held the offices of Supervisor, Treasurer, Assessor, Justice of the Peace, and several minor offices, and represented his district in the Assembly in 1877.
Has 480 acres of land in his home farm, and a 240 acre farm in Iowa. When his father came to Caledonia, he moved from Racine with ox teams; had a covered wagon and lived in that till they had time to build a house.