Frederick Wooster Owen, M.D.

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Doctor Frederick Wooster OWEN was born October 6, 1840, in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, a son of Captain William Wilson OWEN and Adeline (WOOSTER) OWEN.

His earliest schooling was in Saint Mark’s Hall, Orange, New Jersey and in Saint Matthew’s Academy, New York City. His academic training was at Gymnasia in Neuchatel, Switzerland, and Leipzig, Germany. He graduated in 1867 from the medical department of the University of Georgetown, United States, and in 1869 at the Medical University of Paris, France. After a term as adjunct surgeon in the Long Island College Hospital, he settled for forty years of medical practice in Morristown, New Jersey, where for eighteen years he was attending physician of All Souls Hospital, and where he is consulting physician of Memorial Hospital. He also served as the first health physician of Morristown, and also as physician and surgeon to the county jail. He is still affiliated in city, county, and State, with the various medical societies.

Doctor OWEN served in the war for the Union from August, 1861, to December, 1864, entering the military service as second lieutenant, Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers, and being promoted successively to first lieutenant, captain, brevet major and brevet lieutenant-colonel, the last two commissions reading "for gallant and meritorious services in the war".

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).