Selwyn N. Owen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Selwyn N. Owen

Ohio Jurist

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1836

Place of Birth: Steuben County, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1916

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Selwyn N. Owen

  • Selwyn N.
  • Owen (July 5, 1836 – October 1, 1916) was a Democratic lawyer in the U.S.
  • State of Ohio who was a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court 1883–1889. Selwyn N.
  • Owen was born at Steuben County, New York, before his family moved to Columbus, Ohio, and then Huron County, Ohio in 1837.
  • He attended school in Norwich Township, and Norwalk Academy.
  • He attended Antioch College until 1856, and then was principal of a seminary in Clark County, Kentucky.
  • He returned to Norwalk in 1857, where he read law in the offices of Cortland Kennon and Gideon T.
  • Stewart.
  • He enrolled in Cincinnati Law School in 1861, and graduated in 1862.Selwyn N.
  • Owen was admitted to the bar in 1862 and began practice in Fremont, Ohio.
  • In 1863 he moved to Bryan, Ohio, where he had a large practice.
  • In 1876, he was elected to the Common Pleas bench, and was re-elected in 1881.In 1883, he was nominated by the Democrats for an Ohio Supreme Court seat, and defeated Republican John H.
  • Doyle.
  • William H.
  • Upson resigned December of that year, and Owen was appointed to fill the vacancy.
  • He began his five-year term in February 1884, serving until February 1889.
  • In the 1888 election, the Democrats nominated Lyman R.
  • Critchfield, who lost.Owen entered into private practice with the firm Powell, Owen, Ricketts and Black when his Supreme judgeship ended.
  • In 1897, he was appointed Director of Law of the city of Columbus by Mayor Samuel Luccock Black, his old law partner, and served two years.
  • In 1899, Ohio Governor Bushnell appointed Owen to the Ohio State Board of Arbitration, and he was re-appointed in 1905 by Governor Myron T.
  • Herrick.
  • He declined appointment from Judson Harmon to a third term, and resigned January 3, 1911.Owen married Beulah B.
  • Barrett of Rochelle, Illinois in 1870.
  • He owned a large home in Bryan and a 75-acre farm near the city as well as a home in Columbus.
  • He was a Mason and a member of the Universalist Church.
  • Two years after retirement, he and his wife moved to Portland, Oregon, to be near their daughter, and he died there.

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