Abraham Owen or Abram Owen (1769–1811) was born in

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, in 1769. He moved to

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in 1785. Owen served in the wars with the Indians under generals James Wilkinson and Arthur St. Clair in 1791, and served with colonel

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. Owen was surveyor of

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, in 1796. He was in the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, and a member of the state constitutional convention the next year. Owen served as a colonel and as aide-de-camp to

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at the

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, where he was killed in 1811. The city now known as Owensboro, Kentucky established itself in 1817 with the name "Owensborough," in honor of Owen. Two years later, in 1819, counties in

and

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were formed and named for him.

Welsh connection

Owen was the son of Brackett Owen, who was of Welsh descent, and Elizabeth McGehee. Brackett Owen (son of John Owen and Sara Brackett) was born June 10, 1739, in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and died March 14, 1802, in Shelby County, Kentucky. He was also a soldier, who established Owen's Station, a small frontier fort used during the later part of the Revolutionary War for protection against the Indians; Owen's Station was located about four miles from present-day Shelbyville. John Owen's great grandparents Humphrey Owen and Catherine Nannau had migrated from Dolserau, near Dolgellau, north

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Owen, Abraham 1769 births 1811 deaths American military personnel killed in the War of 1812 American military personnel of the Indian Wars American surveyors American explorers Kentucky pioneers People from Owensboro, Kentucky Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives People from Prince Edward County, Virginia United States Army colonels Virginia colonial people