Owens College
Manchester, England, an institution established under the will of John Owens, a Manchester merchant, who died in 1846, and left about $500,000 for the purpose of founding an institution for providing a university education, in which theological and religious subjects should form no part of the instruction given. Teaching commenced in 1851, and the present Gothic building was completed in 1873. tive to Congress from Indiana (1843- The success of the college led to the 1847); and minister to Naples (1853- establishment of a new university, Vic- 1858). During the Civil War he was toria University, to consist of Owens a prominent advocate of negro emanci- College and several affiliated colleges pation. Among his works are: "Moral Physiology" (1831); "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World" (1860); "Beyond the Breakers" (1870), a novel; "Threading My Way" (1874). He died in Lake George, N. Y., June 17, 1877.
OWEN, ROBERT LATHAM, United States Senator from Oklahoma, born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1856. He graduated from the Washington and Lee University in 1877. After several years of teaching he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1880. He acted as United States Indian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes from 1885 to 1889. He was elected United States Senator in 1907 and was re-elected in 1913. In the Senate he acted as chairman of the Committee of Banking and Currency in the 65th Congress.
OWEN MEREDITH. See LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT.