MR. EVAN G. OWENS.
Evan G. Owens was born in North Wales in 1836, and passed his earlier years on his father's farm.In his sixteenth year, he attended school under the auspices of the Established Church, and received a fair instruction in the elementary branches. He was apprenticed at the carriage building trade, and served the usual term of three years in that occupation.
In 1859, he went to Birmingham, England, and, discarding the trade he had learned, sought employment in a gun shop, and was thus engaged until he had aquired a thorough knowledge of gun making.
In July 1863, he came to the United States, and landed in New York City on the morning of the great draft riots in the city. He obtained immediate employment in the great gun store of J. P. Moore and Sons of New York, and afterward at Yonkers New York, and Norwich Conneticut. In 1864, he worked in the Springfield Armory, and, at the close of the war opened a gun store at No. 110 Canal street, New York City.
After a brief residence in Augusta Georgia, and Henderson Kentucky, he came to Denver in 1867, and superintended for ten years the gun store of M. L. Rood, the first estavblishment of the kind in Denver.
In 1878, he established his present business at 208 1/2 Fifteenth street, conducting a large business in ammunition, sportsmen's goods, guns and weapons of all kinds, and repair work.
Mr. Owens was married in Littleton, Colorado in 1873, to Miss Maggie Williams of Wisconsin, who enjoys the reputation of being highly educated and an accomplished linguist. Mr. Owens is liberal in religious views, Republican in politics, and a member of Denver Lodge, No/ 4, I.O.O.F.