Background
OWEN, Marie Bankhead was born on September 1, 1869 in near Macon, Noxubee Company, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of John Hollis and Tallulah J. (Brockman) Bankhead.
director State Department of Archives and History
OWEN, Marie Bankhead was born on September 1, 1869 in near Macon, Noxubee Company, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of John Hollis and Tallulah J. (Brockman) Bankhead.
Private and Public Schools, Alabama. Ward’s Seminary, Nashville, Tennessee.
Director Alabama State Department of Archives and History, since 1920. State President Women's Auxiliary, Southern Commercial Congress. State Chairman Woman’s Democrat League.
State Chairman, National. League for Women's Service. -president Woman’s Committee Alabama Council of Defense during World War.
Editor, Educational Section, Montgomery Advertiser, several years. Member fiction, feature staffs of Uncle Remus Magazine, Southern Woman’s Magazine and other publications. Editor and General Manager, Alabama Historical Quarterly.
Member: Daughters of American Revolution. U. Daughters of the Confederacy. National. League of American Pen Women.
Clubs: Press and Authors', No Name, Inter- | natl.
Spouse Thomas McAdory Owen, April 12, 1893, Fayette, Alabama.
