Background
Owen, Walter Edwin was born on July 5, 1907 in Clinton, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter Edwin and Eugenia Salmon (Britts) Owen.
Owen, Walter Edwin was born on July 5, 1907 in Clinton, Missouri, United States. Son of Walter Edwin and Eugenia Salmon (Britts) Owen.
Bachelor of Arts, Westminster College, 1929. Doctor of Medicine Washington University, Saint Louis, 1937.
Intern, Research Hospital, Kansas City, Missoury, 1937-1938. Resident Tulane University Graduate School Medicine-New Orleans Hospital, 1939-1941. Practiced medicine, specializing in otolaryngology, Peoria, Illinois, 1941-1975.
Staff Methodist Hospital.
Associate staff Saint Francis Hospital, Proctor Hospital. Consultant otolaryn, bronchoscopy Peoria Municipal Tuberculosis Hospital, Peoria Eastern State Hospital.
Consultant otolaryngology Acheson Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Instructor French K. Hansel Foundation, Saint Louis, 1946-1958. Diplomate American Board Otolaryngology.
American College of Surgeons fellow (governor 1955-1958). Member American Thoracic Society, American College Allergists, American Medical Association, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Pi.
Married Mary Margaret Reardon, October 17, 1942. Children: Margaret Lewis (Mistress Robert Jobes), Walter Edwin III, John Corbett.