Family Album For Dr. Sherwood Owens Confederate Surgeon and Gold Miner

Incredible Family Album For Dr. Sherwood Owens Confederate Surgeon and Gold Miner. If you are looking for an individual with an interesting life look no further. Sherwood A. Owens was born in Logan County, Kentucky, the son of John and Tapha Steel Owens. He received an education at Kemper College in St. Louis, the University of Missouri, and the University of Pennsylvania. Owens enlisted in the United States Army in 1846 for the Mexican War and served through it as an assistant surgeon. After his discharge from the army he located in New Orleans and practiced medicine there until 1849. In February of 1849 he joined a party of gold-seekers bound for CA, the overland Journey requiring 128 days. He resumed practice in San Francisco, but in 1852 he went to Australia, entered the practice of medicine in Melbourne and engaged in mining ventures there also.
 
The spirit of adventure being yet strong in him, in Dec. 1853, he joined the British fleet bound for the Crimea and enlisted as a surgeon, serving for one year in The Crimean War. He then returned to America, by way of Australia, visiting a brother in CA and thence to his old home in MO. There in Dec. 1856, he married Miss Lucy Jane Thurman and 2 years later removed to the young village of Waco. Here he entered his practice of medicine, and engaged in large scale real estate dealings.
When the Civil War began in 1861 Brother Owens enlisted in the Confederate Army as a surgeon, served thus through the War, returning to Waco in 1865.
He was a leader and one of the founders of the Waco Medical Assn. and later the State Medical Assn. In addition to his medical work and real estate activities he found time to own and successfully manage a prosperous drug and grocery business on Bridge street. In 1883 he retired from the practice of medicine and in 1885 engaged in the agricultural implement business with his son under the firm name of S.A. Owens and Son. He was a member of the Baptist church.
In 1890 he retired to a large ranch he had purchased in Mills County, near Center City where he spent the most of his time until his death.
 
This album has photos of other family members who also lived incredible lives. Other members of the family were also Doctors and Lawyers as well as high ranking masons. The album consistently shows St. Louis photographers and 37 amazing photographs of an interesting family.