Henry Wallace Owens

Brief Life History of Henry Wallace

When Henry Wallace Owens was born in 1879, in Rockcastle, Kentucky, United States, his father, Granville Green Owens, was 33 and his mother, Mary Alice Sample, was 23. He died in 1883, at the age of 4.

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Granville Green Owens
1846–1923
Mary Alice Sample
1856–1938
Elizabeth Helena Owens
1874–1950
Ida Florence Owens
1876–1924
Melvina Frances Owens
1877–1925
Lily Owens
1877–1883
Henry Wallace Owens
1879–1883
Zelma Agnes Owens
1880–1960
Georgia Alice Owens
1881–1957
Isaac Nelson Owens
1883–1885
Elsie Owens
1892–1970

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    World Events (2)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

    A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

    Name Meaning

    Welsh: variant of Owen , with post-medieval excrescent English -s.

    Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form by bearers of the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain (see McEwen ).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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