Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1890 — MRS. W. D. OWEN, OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

MRS. W. D. OWEN, OF INDIANA.

The Washington D. C. Herald May 25th contains the following description of the wife of Hon. W. D. Owen, representative from the 10th congressional district: “Mrs. Lncy Williams Owen is a direct descendant of Roger Wiliams. She was born in Washington, N. Y. but her father dying when she was a mere infant, she, with a family of brothers and sisters, was brought up by her mother. The mother, soon after the death of

her husband; removed to Providence, R. 1., where little Lucy was educated. See was a beautiful child, and at the age of sixteen attracted the attention of Charles H. Luce, Milwaukee. They were soon married, and the young husband took the still younger wife to his Western home. Here he engaged in the lumber business, built up a large trade and afterwards removed to Chicago, where he amassed a fortune, invested much of it in lowa lands. He died in lowa, leaving Mrs. Owen with two sons. Cue of these is a prominent banker at Logan, la., and other a young man of lives in Washington with his mother. Mr. Ovyen married Mrs. Luce in Omaha, two years ago, since which time she hasgesided in Washington and enjoys the prestige of being the only lady in the Indiana Republican colony to represent the great state at the capital socially. She is much admired by her husband’s constituency in the departments as well as at home. She has a lovely home in Omaha and., one also t in Logansport, Ind. Mrs. Owen is fond of society, end enters into it with all the zest of one who is fitted for it by nature and culture. At home 6he has been very active in. children’s hospital work- and says she misses it from her life in this capital. Mrs. Owen is a member of Garfield Memorial church, and is one of Dr. Power’s most efficient aids-de-camp in the mission established on Capital hill, and for which he acted as Superintendent Mrs. Owen takes great interest in missions, and she often assists her husband, and interests herself in the women in the departments, often proving a valued friend to those from her state seeking positions or promotions.”