OWEN, We'll, DAVID DALE (1807-60). The second son of Robert Owen; born in Scotland. He came to the United States in 1823, took a degree froin the Ohio Medical College. and for some years studied his profession and scientific branches in Europe. In 1833 he returned to the United States and was soon appointed State geologist of Indiana. Under the direction of the Legislature he made a geological survey of the State, and in 1839 was employed by the United States Government to make a survey of the mineral lands of Iowa, and in 1848 made similar surveys in Minnesota and adjoining Territories. The results of his work were published by order of Congress. He was employed from 1852 to 1S57 in surveys of the same nature in Kentucky, and in 1857 was appointed State geologist of Arkansas.
OWEN (Lat. A udocit us) , JOHN (c.1560-1622). An English epigrammatist. He was born at Llanarmon (Carnarvonshirc), was educated at Winchester and at New College. Oxford. where in 1584 he became fellow, and from 1591 to about 1594 was a schoolmaster at Trelleek (Mon mouthshire). Appointed then to the headmas tership of the free school of King Henry V111. at Warwick. he soon became known for his felicitous Latin epigrams, the first collection of which he published in 1606 as JoonniR E udocni Epigrammatunt Libri Tres. He found a patron in John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. His work is uneven in quality, but at its best is caustically shrewd and pointed, and exceedingly skillful in its use of Latin idiom. What is perhaps his most fre quently quoted line, Tempora mntantur, nos et mutamar in jilts (bk. viii., 58. 11, is derived from Matthias Borbonius's compilation, Delithe Poetarum Gcr inanorunt (Frankfurt, 1612), where in the form 'Omnia mutantur,' etc., it is attributed to the Emperor Lothair I. The best edition of the collected epigrams is by Renouard ( l'aris, 1794). There are English renderings by Vicars ( 1619 ) . Ilayman ( 1628) Harflete ( 165:;) , Peckc 11659), and Harvey (1677-78).
OWEN, 'fouls; (1616-83). An eminent non conformist divine. Ile was born at Stadhampton, ()xfordshire, in 1616, of an ancient Welsh family.
In 1631 he matriculated at Queen's College, ford, but in 1637 he was forced to leave the university because of opposition to Laud's stat utes. When the Civil War broke out he warmly espoused the cause of the Parliament. lie re moved to London and published his Display of „I minion fsin, ( 164:3), which proved very ac ceptable to the Puritan party. and secured him the living of Fordham in Essex. From here he removed to Coggeshall, a neighboring vicarage. His views of Church government underwent a change, and from a Presbyterian he became an Independent, modeled his church on congrega tional principles, and wrote in advocacy of the latter. He preached before Parliament on the day following the execution of the King, but discreetly avoided a vindication of the act. In 1651 the House of Commons appointed him dean of Christ Church. Oxford, and the following year he was admitted vice-chancellor of the uni versity. He was also returned to Parliament. hut was unseated because of his orders. After Crom well's death he was ejected from his deanery; but he had powerful friends at Court. and was allowed to preach, notwithstanding the Conven ticle Act and the revocation of the Declaration of Indulgence, and in 1673 became pastor of a large independent congregation in Leadenhall Street, London. In 1663 ()wen was called to the First Church of Boston, Mass., but declined the call then, and when it was renewed in 1665. In 1669 he joined several other min isters in a protest against the treatment of the Baptists in Massachusetts, and in 1672 recom mended a president for Harvard College, to which he had himself been called in 1670. Among his publications may be mentioned: .4 Disrourse Concerning Lit urgies and Their //imposition (1662) ; Excreitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews (166S-84) . usually considered Owen's greatest work: Truth and buoy, nee Vindicated (1669) a reply to Parker's Discourse on Ecelesi ast ical Polito; Justification by Faith (1677 I ; chri.stoloqiu 11679). His works have been edit ed by Russell. with Life by Orme (28 vols.. Lon don. 18261. and by Gould, with Life by Thomson (24 vols., London. 18.50-551.