HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1211-12.   [Jefferson County]

WILLIAM BARNETT OWEN, M.D., is one of the younger representatives of the
medical profession, but his ability does not seem to be limited by the
years of his connection with the profession.  He established his home and
practice in Louisville in 1906, and already has secured a good patronage
here.  He is a native of Kentucky, born in Hart county, March 12, 1880, the
son of Jordan and Kate E. (Green) Owen.  Jordan Owen was born in Green
county, Kentucky, the son of Jordan and _______ (Tinsley) Owen, natives of
Bedford county, Virginia, and came to Kentucky in the early forties,
locating in Green county, the Owens being of Welsh, Scotch and Irish
descent. The mother was born in Hart county, Kentucky, the daughter of
William Green, a native of Kentucky, of English descent and a large slave
owner, owning an extensive plantation in Louisiana.  The father of the
Doctor has been engaged in the tobacco warehouse business in Louisville
since 1895, owning and operating the Main Street Tobacco Warehouse under
the firm name of the Owen-Dannenhold Company.
     Dr. Owen was reared in Hart county until he reached his thirteenth
year, when he came to Louisville and passed through the public schools and
Manual Training School.  He attended the Allman University School, taking
a course in languages, and finally graduated from the medical department of
the Kentucky University on July 3, 1903.  The Doctor then held an
interneship in St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, going thence to New York
city, where he served as interne in Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Ruptured and
Cripple Hospital and the New York Post Graduate Hospital.  He then engaged
in the practice at Louisville in 1906, in which he is still and with every
prospect of so continuing.  He is attending surgeon to the Louisville City
Hospital and assistant to the chair of gynecology in the medical
department of the University of Louisville, and a member of the Jefferson
County Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association, also the Louisville Society of Physicians and
Surgeons.  He is also medical examiner for the North Western Mutual Life
Insurance Company and the Union Central Life Insurance Company.
     In social and fraternal societies the Doctor is a member of the
Masonic order, belonging to Excelsior Lodge, No. 258, F. & A. M., and he
is also a member of the Tavern Club.  The Doctor is a member of the
Broadway Christian church.

Owen Green Tinsley
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Hart-KY Green-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY Bedford-VA NY LA

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