WI BIO - Dane Co - OWEN, Edward T.
Biographical Review of Dane County, WI. Chicago: Biographical Review Pub. Co. 
1893, Vol II, pp 601-602

Edward T. OWEN, of Madison [Dane County], Wisconsin, was born at Harford 
[Hartford County], Connecticut, 04 March 1850, a son of Elijah H. and Susan 
(BOARDMAN) OWEN. The mother [p 602] was born, reared and educated in that 
city, where she was a pupil at the Catherine Beecher School. The father 
[Elijah H. OWEN] was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; was educated in 
the public schools of that county, where he afterward taught, and was a 
merchant by occupation.

Edward T. OWEN, the youngest of five children, graduated at Yale College in 
1872; spent two years at the University of Gottingen, Hanover, Germany, one 
year at the University of Paris, France, and one year at New Haven, 
Connecticut, where he took the literary, historical, physiological, and 
linguistic course. He was called to the University of Wisconsin [at Madison] 
in April 1878, to fill temporarily the place of Dr. FARLING, a professor of 
German and French. In 1879 he was appointed Professor of French language and 
literature; and in 1886 was elected to the same position in the University of 
California, at Berkeley, where he served one year on leave of absence from 
the Wisconsin University. In 1887 Mr. OWEN resumed his former place, where 
he has since remained, and for a number of years has also interested himself 
in real estate. For the past fifteen years, by way of recreation, he engaged 
himself in the collection of lithodoctra, at present located in one of the 
university buildings, and is designed to form a part of the university 
collection. In connection with Professor PASHA of the University of 
California, he donated sixty volumes of French classics and eighty of the 
French language for the use of students, published by Henry Holt, of New 
York. On his return from California he ably introduced the elementary course 
in Spanish and Italian.

Mr. [Edward T.] ORTON was married on 11 April 1884 to Emma B. PRATT, a native 
of Brooklyn, New York, and a daughter of Henry C. PRATT, a publisher of 
Hartford [Hartford County], Connecticut. A. S. BARNES, of the firm of A. S. 
Barnes & Company, was a clerk in his store. Mrs. OWEN was educated at the 
Renney School, of Elizabeth [Union County], New Jersey. Our subject and wife 
have had four children: Emily, Gladden, Ethel, and Cornelia. The two 
youngest died in 1890, at the ages of fourteen and ten years.

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