Son of Joshua K. Owen, M.D.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette & Farmers' Journal
Thursday, July 13, 1916
Page 1, Column 3
COLONEL OWEN DIES SUDDENLY
Albert Kimsey Owen died suddenly Wednesday morning, July 12, 1916, while walking in his garden in the rear of his home in Oswego street, aged 68 years. Death was caused by acute dilatation of the heart.
Mr. Owen was very fond of flowers and his garden, in which he took great pleasure, is one of the beauty spots of the town. Accompanied by Mrs. Owen he had been walking among the flowers and was just returning to the house when he was seized with the fatal attack, death following immediately.
Colonel Owen, as he was best known, was born in Chester county, Pa., his parents being Quakers. As a boy he was a companion, during the Civil War, of his father, who was a prominent surgeon in the Union army. Following the war he went to Mexico as a civil engineer. While there he drained the swamps about the city of Mexico and made surveys for railroads. He became associated with Benjamin Carmen, the American Consul at Mazatlan, in land and mining concessions. On one of his excursions into the interior, he came upon the beautiful harbor of Topolobampo on the Gulf of California. As a civil engineer he recognized the unusual facilities of the harbor for commercial purposes. Col Owen had accompanied Gen. General Grant and son Ulysses on a tour through Mexico, and following his discovery he became interested with the Grant family in securing land concessions surrounding this harbor. A railroad from Topolobampo to Kansas City was projected and surveyed and it was planned to develop the harbor, one of the best on the coast south of San Francisco, and a city was planned, which it was believed the construction of the railroad would develop into a great commercial port, as it is 800 miles nearer New York than San Francisco. A portion of the railroad was built when the beginning of the construction of the Panama Canal caused the capitalist interested to withdraw, and the project was abandoned.
Mr. Owen married Mrs. Louise Bigelow Tyler, who survives him. Private funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The remains will be taken to Rochester for cremation.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette & Farmers' Journal
Thursday, July 13, 1916
Page 1, Column 3
COLONEL OWEN DIES SUDDENLY
Albert Kimsey Owen died suddenly Wednesday morning, July 12, 1916, while walking in his garden in the rear of his home in Oswego street, aged 68 years. Death was caused by acute dilatation of the heart.
Mr. Owen was very fond of flowers and his garden, in which he took great pleasure, is one of the beauty spots of the town. Accompanied by Mrs. Owen he had been walking among the flowers and was just returning to the house when he was seized with the fatal attack, death following immediately.
Colonel Owen, as he was best known, was born in Chester county, Pa., his parents being Quakers. As a boy he was a companion, during the Civil War, of his father, who was a prominent surgeon in the Union army. Following the war he went to Mexico as a civil engineer. While there he drained the swamps about the city of Mexico and made surveys for railroads. He became associated with Benjamin Carmen, the American Consul at Mazatlan, in land and mining concessions. On one of his excursions into the interior, he came upon the beautiful harbor of Topolobampo on the Gulf of California. As a civil engineer he recognized the unusual facilities of the harbor for commercial purposes. Col Owen had accompanied Gen. General Grant and son Ulysses on a tour through Mexico, and following his discovery he became interested with the Grant family in securing land concessions surrounding this harbor. A railroad from Topolobampo to Kansas City was projected and surveyed and it was planned to develop the harbor, one of the best on the coast south of San Francisco, and a city was planned, which it was believed the construction of the railroad would develop into a great commercial port, as it is 800 miles nearer New York than San Francisco. A portion of the railroad was built when the beginning of the construction of the Panama Canal caused the capitalist interested to withdraw, and the project was abandoned.
Mr. Owen married Mrs. Louise Bigelow Tyler, who survives him. Private funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The remains will be taken to Rochester for cremation.
Son of Joshua K. Owen, M.D.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette & Farmers' Journal
Thursday, July 13, 1916
Page 1, Column 3
COLONEL OWEN DIES SUDDENLY
Albert Kimsey Owen died suddenly Wednesday morning, July 12, 1916, while walking in his garden in the rear of his home in Oswego street, aged 68 years. Death was caused by acute dilatation of the heart.
Mr. Owen was very fond of flowers and his garden, in which he took great pleasure, is one of the beauty spots of the town. Accompanied by Mrs. Owen he had been walking among the flowers and was just returning to the house when he was seized with the fatal attack, death following immediately.
Colonel Owen, as he was best known, was born in Chester county, Pa., his parents being Quakers. As a boy he was a companion, during the Civil War, of his father, who was a prominent surgeon in the Union army. Following the war he went to Mexico as a civil engineer. While there he drained the swamps about the city of Mexico and made surveys for railroads. He became associated with Benjamin Carmen, the American Consul at Mazatlan, in land and mining concessions. On one of his excursions into the interior, he came upon the beautiful harbor of Topolobampo on the Gulf of California. As a civil engineer he recognized the unusual facilities of the harbor for commercial purposes. Col Owen had accompanied Gen. General Grant and son Ulysses on a tour through Mexico, and following his discovery he became interested with the Grant family in securing land concessions surrounding this harbor. A railroad from Topolobampo to Kansas City was projected and surveyed and it was planned to develop the harbor, one of the best on the coast south of San Francisco, and a city was planned, which it was believed the construction of the railroad would develop into a great commercial port, as it is 800 miles nearer New York than San Francisco. A portion of the railroad was built when the beginning of the construction of the Panama Canal caused the capitalist interested to withdraw, and the project was abandoned.
Mr. Owen married Mrs. Louise Bigelow Tyler, who survives him. Private funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The remains will be taken to Rochester for cremation.
Baldwinsville, New York
The Gazette & Farmers' Journal
Thursday, July 13, 1916
Page 1, Column 3
COLONEL OWEN DIES SUDDENLY
Albert Kimsey Owen died suddenly Wednesday morning, July 12, 1916, while walking in his garden in the rear of his home in Oswego street, aged 68 years. Death was caused by acute dilatation of the heart.
Mr. Owen was very fond of flowers and his garden, in which he took great pleasure, is one of the beauty spots of the town. Accompanied by Mrs. Owen he had been walking among the flowers and was just returning to the house when he was seized with the fatal attack, death following immediately.
Colonel Owen, as he was best known, was born in Chester county, Pa., his parents being Quakers. As a boy he was a companion, during the Civil War, of his father, who was a prominent surgeon in the Union army. Following the war he went to Mexico as a civil engineer. While there he drained the swamps about the city of Mexico and made surveys for railroads. He became associated with Benjamin Carmen, the American Consul at Mazatlan, in land and mining concessions. On one of his excursions into the interior, he came upon the beautiful harbor of Topolobampo on the Gulf of California. As a civil engineer he recognized the unusual facilities of the harbor for commercial purposes. Col Owen had accompanied Gen. General Grant and son Ulysses on a tour through Mexico, and following his discovery he became interested with the Grant family in securing land concessions surrounding this harbor. A railroad from Topolobampo to Kansas City was projected and surveyed and it was planned to develop the harbor, one of the best on the coast south of San Francisco, and a city was planned, which it was believed the construction of the railroad would develop into a great commercial port, as it is 800 miles nearer New York than San Francisco. A portion of the railroad was built when the beginning of the construction of the Panama Canal caused the capitalist interested to withdraw, and the project was abandoned.
Mr. Owen married Mrs. Louise Bigelow Tyler, who survives him. Private funeral services will be held Saturday at 10:00 a.m. The remains will be taken to Rochester for cremation.
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