When Robert Dale Owen was born on 5 May 1861, in Williams, Ohio, United States, his father, James M Owen, was 34 and his mother, Orilla Varney, was 36. He married Cora Emaline Cales on 19 February 1890, in Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Bridgewater Center, Williams, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Tisdale, Cowley, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 30 October 1935, in Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Tisdale Cemetery, Tisdale, Cowley, Kansas, United States.
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"The Kansas Agricultural Society was formed on March 5, 1862. The society encouraged farmers to grow winter wheat which created the nickname """"bread basket of the world."
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Cowley, Kansas, United States
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.
Welsh: from the personal name Owain, from Latin Eugenius (see Eugene ). This Welsh personal name is cognate with Old Irish Eogán, see 2 and 3.
Scottish and Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Eoghain ‘son of Eoghan’. See McEwen .
Irish: from Ó hEoghain, ‘descendant of Eoghan’. See Ewen .
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