W. Talbot Owen

Birth Date

1829-11-03

Death Date

1892-01-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, physician. Claiborne County, Mississippi, native. Son of James Harvey Owen. Married to Sarah E. Hoagland Owen in Carroll County, Kentucky, on November 30, 1855. Father of Carrie Owen. Graduate of the University of Louisville in Louisville in 1844. Graduate of the University of Louisville Medical School in Louisville in 1849. Physician in Claiborne County, Mississippi, in 1850. Physician in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1858 through 1865. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Employed Eliza Atchison and Mary Hansie as servants in Louisville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Mississippi, Claiborne County, Port Gibson, p. 106B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 667.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 262B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 5, p. 84.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 9940, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 58.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994030, Jefferson County Marriages.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-9, (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 134.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 190.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 470.
William B. Atkinson, The Physicians and Surgeons of he United States, (Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878), p. 354-355.
"Dr. William Talbot Owen (1829-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 158203857, accessed November 9, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158203857.

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