Cerf/Kiekhofer/Owen - Forest Hill Cemetery - Section 30 - Lot 17

Edward T. Owen  Mar 4, 1850 - Nov 9, 1931
  • Educator and real estate speculator
  • A driving force behind the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association

    • Emilie Brace  Nov 17, 1850 - Aug 17, 1934

    Ethel Pratt Owen Jul 23, 1876 - Nov 23, 1890
    Cornelia Loomis Owen Jun 17, 1880 - Dec 4, 1890

                   

    Owen Park/Owen Parkway - 1909 - Near Hoyt Park
  • 1892 Owen bought fourteen acres of wooded land with a commanding height near Calvery Cemetery (now Resurrection Cemetery). The land was donated to the city for a pleasure drive, Owen Parkway, dedicated to the memory of his daughters, Ethel and Cornelia, both of whom died during a diphtheria epidemic in 1890


    • Two boulders mark opposite sides of Regent Street @ Speedway & Highland Avenue:

    One simply is inscribed "Owen Drive"
    The other
    "For Ethel and Nell
    To the City They Loved
    From Their Father and Mother"