County Named, 1819

For Col. Abraham Owen. Born Va., 1769. Came to Ky., 1785. In Indian campaigns of 1790 and '91. Member of the Ky. Legislature, Senate and Constitutional Conv. of 1799. First Kentuckian to join command of Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison in Indian campaign, upper Wabash Valley. Nov. 7, 1811, Owen killed in the battle of Tippecanoe. Owen County out of Scott, Franklin, Gallatin.