. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 663 his present estate. It was all in the woodswhen he bought, and while he continuedfarming as a renter up to 1905 he improvedhis other place, and when he moved to it inli)05 he was owner of eighty acres, which heat once began to clear up. He built his pres-ent comfortable cottage home of five roomsand also a good barn, sixty by sixty feet, hasfenced his fields, and has all his original placein cultivation. In 1910 he purchased eightyacres mor
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 663 his present estate. It was all in the woodswhen he bought, and while he continuedfarming as a renter up to 1905 he improvedhis other place, and when he moved to it inli)05 he was owner of eighty acres, which heat once began to clear up. He built his pres-ent comfortable cottage home of five roomsand also a good barn, sixty by sixty feet, hasfenced his fields, and has all his original placein cultivation. In 1910 he purchased eightyacres more, half of which is in leases sixty acres of his place to a ten-ant. Corn is his principal crop, and he isknown through the country-side as an indus-trious and prospering farmer and citizen,who has earned all he has. To supplementhis income at different periods he has baledhay and hauled logs. Mr. Owen affiliates with the IndependentOrder of Odd Fellows, the Modern Wood-men of America and the Mutual ProtectiveLeague of Hornersville. In politics he is aDemocrat, and is a member of the IMethodistchurch.
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