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to make a feuloiric*] - that State, and subse- 



qoeotly be was employed by th, I - ...vcnmi. nt in 

 geological iUTYeyi in Iowa, \VL- . Minnesota. 



The remluwere pabliabed in I - 1 1 in surveys of 

 Kentucky and Arkansas were conducted under the 

 direction of those States, and he wan also employed by 

 individuals and companies in examination of special 

 district*. He died at New Harmony, Ind., Nov. 13, 



Hi* brother. ROBERT DALK OWEN (1801-1877), 

 became especially noted as an advocate of spiritualism. 

 He was born at Glasgow, Nov. 7, Isnl, hut spent his 

 earlv yean at New Ijinnrk. and three years in Switxer- 

 huid. He went with his father to the 1'nited States 

 in 1825, and took part in the social experiment at New 

 Harmony. Iml. In 1828, for the promotion of infi- 

 delity. he established at New York a weekly paper 

 called Tke Frre Inquirer. While a member of the 

 Indiana legislature, 1835-38, he did much to promote. 

 common schools, and in Congress, 184U-47, ne took 

 part in organizing the Smithsonian Institution. In 

 1850 he served in the convention for the revision of the 

 Constitution of Indiana, and secured for married 

 women the control of their property. From 1853 to 

 1858 be was at Naples, at first as U. S. charge 

 tfiifnirrt, afterwards as minister. During the civil 

 war he supported the cause of the Union, and urged 

 the emancipation of the slaves. He was employed by 

 the government on important commissions relating to 

 the freeduien and to ordnance stores. His later years 

 were devoted to the propagation of spiritualism. He 

 died at Lake George, N. ., June 24, 1877. His 

 principal works are Footfall* on the Boundary of An- 

 other World (I860) ; The Debatnhlr Lund between this 

 W:,rld and the AM (1872), and Threading my Way 

 (1874), the last being an autobiography of twenty- 

 seven years. 



OWEN, JOHN JASON (1803-1869), an American 

 educator, was born at Colebrook, Conn., Aug. 1,'i. 1808 

 He graduated at Middlebury College. Vt, in 1829, 

 and studied theology at Andover. Although he en- 

 tered the Presbyterian ministry, he was never pastor, 

 his life being devoted to teaching and editing the 

 classics. He was principal of the Cornelius Institute, 

 New York, from 1836 to 1848, when he was made 

 professor of Greek and Latin in the New York Free 

 Academy. While he was vice-president of this insti- 

 tution its name was changed to the College of the 

 City of New York. He died at New York. April 18, 

 1869. His publications were editions of Xenophon's 

 Anabatit (1843), and Ci/ropa-dia (1846); Homer's 

 Odyuey (1844) and Iliad (1851), a Commentary on 

 the Gotpet* and the Act* (3 vols., 1857-69). He wa> 

 an able scholar, faithful teacher, and learned com- 

 mentator. 



<)\V KN. SIR I'liiupCuNLUTE, aBritish promoter ;of 

 industrial art, was born June 8, 1828. His father being 

 a captain in the British navy, he was engaged in that 

 service from his 12th to his 17th year. Being then 

 compelled to _ retire by ill-health he received an 

 appointment in the science and art department at 

 London. After faithful service for ten years he was 

 appointed deputy-general superintendent of the South 

 Kensington Museum . In 1 860 he was made assistant di- 

 rector, and in 1 873 succeeded Sir Henry Cole as director. 

 He assisted at the Paris Expositions in 1S55 and 1867, 

 and was executive commissioner at the Centennial Ex- 

 hibition at Philadelphia in 1876. He was secretary of 

 the Royal commission for the Vienna Exposition in 

 1873, and for the Paris Exposition in 1878. He also 

 took part in the International Fisheries Exhibition at 

 London. 1883, the Health and Education Exhibitions. 

 J884. the Music Exhibition, 1885. and the Colonial 

 .iiel Indian Exhibition, 1887. In all of these cases he 

 displayed great executive ability and essentially pro- 

 moted the objects of the industrial exhibitions. Be- 

 sides beiriK knighted in 1873, he has received various 

 i of honor from bis govenwwut. 



OWK.N. Sin KII IIAHI>. English anatomist, was born 

 at Lancaster, July 2O. 1804. !! -tudied mrdieine at 

 Edinburgh ami at St. Bartholomew - Hospital. I^uidon. 

 !*.. ming prosector to Abcnictliy. lie became a 

 member of the Royal College of Surgeons in \^<>. 

 and soon after assistant curator of (he llunierian 

 Museum. Besides descriptive catalogues of tb 

 -cum. he prepared the PQbMO&Muoi Seriet of Coni- 

 iKirntlrr Aii'itiinit/ ( I s:i;{ li i). His valuable researches 

 led to new classifications of animals ami the addition 

 of numerous genera and species. His ability w 

 played in the reconstruction of extinct families. In 

 1836 he succeeded Sir Charles Bell as Huntcrian pro- 

 fessor in the i;.i\al College of Surgeons, and in 1856 

 was made chief of the natural history department of 

 the British Museum ; he also held a professorship in 

 ili> lloyal Institution. London, and was connected with 

 the prominent scientific societies. AIIIOIIL' his works 

 are: Odtmtoffrapiui (- vols.. IMo-i.~i): /Iritis/, 

 Mdininnlx nnil lilnls (IS In); lirltiis/i h'ossil Reptile* 



(1848765); The FarfeDTOfeStahM(1848); I'.irtl,.;,,. 

 genesis (1849); Lecture* on ('<ii/><n-:itirr Aiitnm>i 

 (1843-46); Amitoiiii/ of Vertebrate! (3 vols.. IS' 



AmZ Keptilia of South Africa (1875) ; Fotti/ 



maU of Australia (1877); Winghtt Birds of New 



Zetland (1- 



OWENSBORO, a city of Kentucky, the seat of 

 Daviess co., is on the Ohio River, 160 miles below 

 Louisville, and on the Owensboro and Nashville, the 

 Louisville, Evansville, and St. Louis, and- the Louis- 

 ville, St. Louis, and Texas Railroads. It is 10 feet above 

 the highest water ever known in the Ohio River. A 

 steam-ferry plies to Indiana and considerable trade is 

 carried on by the river packet-lines. Owensboro has 

 a U. S. government building, 4 hotels, 1 national 

 bank, 4 State banks, 1 daily and 4 weekly newspapers, 

 16 churches, good public schools.and private academies. 

 The manunetoriag industries comprise 2 foundries, 

 wago_n-factory, wheel- and spoke-factory, planing-mills, 

 fiouring-mills, and tobacco- and ciirar- factories. The 

 chief staples of the vicinity are tobacco and whiskey, 

 there being 23 tobacco-factories and 16 whiskey-distil- 

 leries. The city is lighted with gas and electric light, 

 and is supplied with water by the Holly system. Its 

 property is valued at $3,000,000, its public debt is 

 SL'.'I.IMX), and the yearly expenses are $47,000. It was 

 settled in 1815, and incorporated as a city in 1850. Its 

 population in 1880 was 623 1. 



OWL. To the remarks found in the ENCYCLO- 

 dv i YVTII P ^ DIA BRITANNICA regarding the 

 ? oo I structural affinities of the owls, it may 

 1;,. .,,.''- be added that the hawk-owl (Snr>,i',i 

 fnnerea) of both continents is the most 

 acccpitrine of known owls and furnishes _ the best ar- 

 gument that remains to those systematise who still 

 cling to the grouping of the owls with the hawks and 

 other diunial birds of prey in the old and familiar 

 order of Raptores. Some have found in the singular 

 kakapo, or owl-parrot, a link between the owls and 

 parrots, but though there seems to be a certain rela- 

 tionship between the parrots and the true birds of 

 prey, it must be conceded that the kakapo is after all 

 only an aberrant and strictly local form of the par- 

 rot tribe an owl. it is true, in its physiognomy and in 

 its nocturnal habits, but in no other respect. The re- 

 lat ii inship of owls through Stratum in to the goatsuckers 

 U now generally given up as improbable, but the best 

 recent opinion would seem to place the owls, the goat- 

 suckers, and the guaeharo in the position of parallel 

 groups derived from some common parentage, prob- 

 ably belonging to that convenient yet confused and 

 somewhat bewildering assemblage, the Picarian birds. 

 \I.i:co.Nll)/E.) 



It is certainly remarkable that while the keen-eyed 

 and strongly flying sub-family of Old World vultures 

 have not a single representative in America, being re- 

 placed here by the totally distinct OaAartiaU (q. .), 

 several species of the owls, on the other bund, have 



