Alameda County Biographies

OWEN R. OWENS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in the Isle of Anglesea, North Wales, March 31, 1846, and there resided until 
he attained the age of eighteen years.  He then emigrated to California by way of Panama, 
arriving in San Francisco April 30, 1863.  After passing three years as shipping-clerk in the 
employ of Charles Clayton, San Francisco, he came to Alameda County, commenced farming on the 
Dougherty Ranch, and there continued until 1869, when he moved to Livermore and the place on 
which he now lives, having some fifteen hundred acres under cultivation.  These he relinquished 
in 1882, when he purchased one hundred and eighty acres, and is now engaged in agricultural 
pursuits of a general nature.  Married in Dublin, Alameda County, February 24, 1878, Miss Mary 
E. Murphy, a native of Alvarado, Alameda County, by whom he has had a family of three children, 
viz.:  William J. (deceased), Edward Roland, and Owen R., Jr.

History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 957