Show 1 CITY'S OLDEST INHABITANT PLANS LANS Y CELEBRATION w William iliam D D. D DOwen Owen Hale I 1 and Hearty as a Man Manof j of 50 SO Gives The Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram the Recipe for I Longevity 1 sound o pd in mind and ard body oay as most tn st men of 50 0 J I c I Was Born in in Old London on I Mr owe Owen was bc and anti i ie red in London leaving lea the English capital in 1868 to come come cometo to Utah Utah- hav having ing become become- a convert to th tf 1 Mormon n church on on March 16 1845 at which h time his wife Rhoda Moss Owen also embraced embrace the Mormon faith Mrs Owen Owen is is quite young compared with her ter patriarchal patri-archal husband being only 76 years old ld on September 1st last She SIte was only 17 when she bec became me th the bride bilde of Mr Owen who who was then theft aI 31 From the time he was 14 years old till his his' hism m marriage ge Mr 1 Owen followed a ai i seafaring life About halt half of this time he was as In rn inthe the navy The remaining remaining re- re years he the was vas engaged d in the merch merchant t nt service ser and was mate of several merchantmen n. n Mr Owen is po possessed of a a. a r wonderfully good memory mem mem- ory cry When a asked sd If if he could remember remember remember ber the pf L the he h different m men of of n-of war on which l qi he had llad served without hesitation ion 1 I The Re th the and the Ocean Then he asked if the r id not wish to tp know v the number q of oJ guns SImp that I each of these fractions fraction a th the wooden wood wood wooden en walls of old England rid iid carried On beh g informed that it would be a a- agnat matter mat gnat tel ter of Interest Mr Owen replied without hesi hesitation in tl J order named Sol 84 Soland and 74 guns When the Crimean war I w T broke out tit Mr Owen worked as a rope- rope r on th the Li d docks en children were born to the tho Owens all but the youngest in London Seven of them are living and married They have hav thirty-eight thirty grandchildren and twenty-one twenty great gleat The children are William D D. Owen Jr who has for twenty years been beena a traveling traveling trav tray eling cling salesman for foi the Z C C. M M. I I. I Mrs l Mary Ann Jackson Mrs Rhoda Forrest Forrest For For- rest proprietress of oJ the Forrest house at Nephi Alvin Alvia C C. a packer eT at atthe the Z C C. C M M. I I. I 1 r Jenkins of Nephi Mrs Sarah Love Loye and Dan W W. Owen a clerk In Schramm Schramm's s drug diug store V hen he first came came to Utah Mr Owen had a pretty hard time of It For about a Year yen he worked at odd jobs of wood- wood chopping and cleaning wells The Then l he he- went vent to Logan where his eldest daughter daugh daugh- ter Mrs Jackson then lived After Afler a short hort stay in in Logan Logan- he returned to Salt Lake and obtained employment atthe atthe at atthe the Z C C. M M. I I. I He lie remained in the employ employ employ em em- ploy of the comp company ny until seventeen years sears ago he was ws retired on a pension of f 10 a 3 month A grandson John O Own Owen en was sent to England ten yeats years ago on a mission for the Mormon church |