Background
David Dale Owen was born on June 24, 1807, at "Braxfield House, " near New Lanark, Scotland, the third son of the social philanthropist Robert Owen and Ann Caroline Dale.
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Title: First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made during the years 1857 and 1858, by David Dale Owen ... assisted by William Elderhorst ... Edward T. Cox. With plates. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Owen, David Dale; Cox, Edward Travers; Elderhorst, William; 1858. 256 p. ; 8º. 7108.e.23.
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David Dale Owen was born on June 24, 1807, at "Braxfield House, " near New Lanark, Scotland, the third son of the social philanthropist Robert Owen and Ann Caroline Dale.
David Owen received his early training from private tutors and at the Lanark Academy, and then proceeded to the educational institution of Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg, near Berne, Switzerland. Here he took a three-year course, beginning in 1824. In November 1827, he sailed for America, where their father had undertaken to plant a socialistic community at New Harmony, Indiana. They reached New Harmony early in January 1828. In 1831, in company with Prof. H. D. Rogers, David Owen sailed for London, where he attended lectures in chemistry and geology at the London University. Returning in 1832, after recovering from an attack of Asiatic cholera, he entered upon a course in medicine at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, meanwhile spending his summers in arranging and classifying the collection of fossils made by the geologist William Maclure. David graduating in medicine in 1836.
After graduating David spent one summer as a volunteer on the geological survey of Tennessee under Gerard Troost, and in 1837 accepted the proffered position of state geologist of Indiana. Working without assistants, he made his own field observations and his own chemical analyses in a laboratory he had established at New Harmony. At the end of the first year, having rendered but one report, he resigned to accept an appointment from James Whitcomb, federal land commissioner, to make a survey of the Dubuque and Mineral Point districts of Wisconsin and Iowa, an area of about eleven thousand square miles. In carrying out this task he displayed exceptional energy and administrative ability. He received his commission August 17, 1839, engaged and instructed his 139 assistants as to purposes and methods of procedure, and presented his report on November 14 following, a "feat of generalship which has never been equalled in American geological history. " The report was published, under date of April 2, 1840, as House Document 239.
In 1847 Owen was appointed United States geologist to make a survey of the Chippewa Land District, the work being subsequently extended to include a more complete survey of the northwestern territory of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, which with field and laboratory work occupied his time and attention until 1852. It was in the course of this survey that Dr. John Evans made under Owen's direction the first survey of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad lands of the Upper Missouri. The complete report, Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and Incidentally of a Portion of Nebraska Territory (1852), formed a quarto volume of 628 pages of text, with fifteen plates of fossils, nineteen folding sections, and a geological map. The illustrations of fossil remains were particularly fine for that period.
In 1854 Owen was appointed state geologist of Kentucky and continued to hold the position for five years. In 1857, he accepted also the position of state geologist of Arkansas, but here his limit was reached: he died in the midst of his task in 1860 and his final report was edited by J. P. Lesley. In the meanwhile, however, he had accepted a third office, becoming for the second time state geologist of Indiana - an appointment made with the understanding that the actual work of the survey was to be done by his brother, Richard Owen, who had recently resigned the professorship of geology in the university at Nashville, Tennessee. The Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of Indiana Made during the Years 1859 and 1860 under the Direction of the Late D. D. Owen was published by Richard Owen in 1862.
Viewed in the light of today, much of Owen's work can be regarded as reconnaissance. He was the first to point out the rich mineral nature of the Iowa and Wisconsin lands, and that the ores of lead and zinc were limited to the magnesian limestone, and the first to give the name subcarboniferous to beds immediately underlying the coal of Indiana. He was an artist, and his pictured geological sections are unequaled for their artistic beauty. Of the twenty-five plates in his report of 1840, fourteen are from his own drawings. His chief publications, besides those mentioned above, are the four reports of the Geological Survey of Kentucky (4 vols. , 1856 - 61); First Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of Arkansas (1858), and Second Report (1860). His death at fifty-three, in the midst of his labors, was due to the undermining of his constitution by exposure and malaria and unremitting attention to his strenuous duties.
David Owen served as a U. S. geologist since 1839 and led federal surveys of Iowa, Wisconsin, northern Illinois (1839–40) and the Upper Midwest (1847-1851). David Owen served as the first state geologist for three states: Kentucky (1854–57), Arkansas (1857–59), and Indiana (1837–39 and 1859–60). Owen's major geological reports: Report of a Geological Reconnaissance of the State of Indiana (1837); Second Report of a Geological Survey of the State of Indiana (1838); First Report of a Geological Reconnaissance of the Northern Counties of Arkansas, made during the Years 1857 and 1858; Condensed Report of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the State of Indiana, for 1859 and 1860; Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky, Made during the Years 1854 and 1855; Second Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky, Made during the Years 1856 and 1857, etc.
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David was a man of kindly, equitable disposition.
David Owen was married on March 23, 1837, to Caroline C. Neef, daughter of Francis Joseph Nicholas Neef, educational leader of the New Harmony community. Four children were born to them.
He was an educational leader of the New Harmony community.
