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Owen, Thomas
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Thomas Owen was born at Malpeque, Prince Edward Island, on 12 October 1795, the son of Arthur Owen and Elizabeth Lee who had emigrated to Prince Edward Island from Devonshire England in 1780 and settled near Alberton. Thomas was engaged in mercantile pursuits for many years and also served as the postmaster general of P.E.I. for eighteen years prior to his death in 1860. He married Ann Campbell (d. 1892), daughter of George Campbell, master mariner with whom he had 12 children including his eldest son Lemuel Cambridge Owen.