Charles Hamilton Owen
Charles Hamilton Owen was born nearly 138 years ago in Manchester, England on September 13th, 1881 to his Father Charles Edward Owen and Mother Catherine Smith Owen ....
** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mr. Owens birth year of 1881 included...
• On Jan 25th, 1881'Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company...
• On February 19th, 1881 Kansas becomes the 1st U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages...
• On Mar 18th, 1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts in New York City and would last 146 years before closing in 2017...
• On Jul 2nd, 1881 United States President James Garfield is shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker... Garfield dies 79 days later...
• On 25 October 25th, 1881 one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso is born in Málaga, Spain...
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Charles Hamilton was the first born child to his Mother and Father who were married in Manchester earlier that same year in 1881...
Baby Charles was baptized on November 2nd, 1881at the Saint Chrysostom's Church in Victoria Park, Manchester, England which was originally built four years earlier in 1877... ( Exterior and interior images of the Church in comments below as well as Charles Hamilton's actual baptism record )
He had three younger siblings... Two Brothers ( Sydney and Milton ) and a single Sister ( Libbie per census records and Lydia in a newspaper account )
The Owen family would immigrate to the United States two years after Charles Hamilton's birth and the same year in which his younger Brother Sydney Bergin Owen is born in 1883...
They would settle in rural Micanopy, Florida where Patriarch Charles Edward Owen became a successful business owner in the field of wholesale produce... By the mid 1890's the family journey's Southward, landing in Tampa, Florida...
Charles Hamilton would marry his Wife Caridad in their new home City and together they would have a single child although the family would soon experience heartbreaking tragedy.... Young Charles was inflicted with "Consumption" which is what they called tuberculosis at the time... He will lose his life at the age of 22 on Christmas Eve in 1903 leaving behind a young Wife and infant...
His Father Charles Edward Owen's life also met a sudden end three years later in a New Orleans hotel where he was attending a Confederate reunion... ( I'm not entirely sure as to his connection with the Confederacy as Charles Edward was born in England in 1856 ) ( Article in comments below in addition to his Monument restoration which I completed previously )
Charles Hamilton Owen... Beloved Son, Husband, and Father....