Robert L. Owen (English Wikipedia)

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  • Robert Latham Owen, Jr: His Careers as Indian Attorney and Progressive Senator. Oklahoma State University. 1985.

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  • Shaw, Christopher W. (2018). "'Tired of Being Exploited': The Grassroots Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916". Agricultural History. 92 (4): 527. doi:10.3098/ah.2018.092.4.512.

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  • Keso, Edward Elmer. The Senatorial Career of Robert Latham Owen. Gardenvale, Canada, Garden City Press, 1938, p. 117 et seq. On the history of deposit insurance schemes at both state and federal levels, see: A Brief History of Deposit Insurance in the United States. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 1998. Accessed on 12/24/10 at: http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/brief/brhist.pdf

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  • See, for example, Ben Bernanke's categorization of "the prevalent view of the time, that money and monetary policy played at most a purely passive role in the Depression" in "Money, Gold and the Great Depression: Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke" at the H. Parker Willis Lecture in Economic Policy, March 2, 2004. Accessed on 02/03/11 at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200403022/default.htm

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  • W.O. Owen Jr. originally retired from the US Army around 1905 with the rank of Major, and is referred to as retired with this rank in his mother's memoirs (1907). Recalled to service during World War I, he retired for the second time with the rank of Colonel. See Virginia Genealogy Trails, "Virginia Military Institute: Class of 1876" (note that the transcription erroneously records the last name as Owens), accessed on 03/01/11 at: http://genealogytrails.com/vir/rockbridge/vmi/cadet_class_registers/cadets_1876.html.

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  • This paragraph primarily follows Wilkerson, Chad R. "Senator Robert Latham Owen of Oklahoma and the Federal Reserve's Formative Years." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Economic Review (forthcoming). Posted on website at: http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/econrev/pdf/13q3Wilkerson.pdf Accessed on 10/3/13.
  • For the park's establishment as a memorial to Owen's work on the Federal Reserve Act, see Ted Todd in "On Robert Latham Owen" in TEN magazine, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Fall 2007 (accessed on 01/18/11 at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)). The National Archives provide a date of September 18, 1976 for the dedication of the park.
  • As this article has shown, Owen and Glass had espoused radically different visions for the Federal Reserve. Even after passage of the eventual compromise version, relations between the two men remained difficult. They were far apart in their overall political philosophies: Owen a Progressive, Glass a southern states' rights Democrat and segregationist. They were rival candidates for the presidency at the 1920 party convention (though neither truly rose above "favorite son" status). The chief bone of contention between them, however, concerned which of them deserved more of the credit for the Federal Reserve Act. In Allan Meltzer's words, "Glass gave no credit" to Owen (A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1, 1913–51. Chapter 3, footnote 5). According to Ted Todd in "On Robert Latham Owen" in TEN magazine, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Fall 2007, accessed on 12/23/10 at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Glass was "outraged" at Owen's account of the evolution of the Glass-Owen Act in Owen's 1919 book. Owen, in turn, resented what he considered the undue credit given to Glass, at his own expense, as father of the Act. Owen declined to attend the 1938 unveiling of a bust to Glass at the Federal Reserve. Later, though, he wrote an emollient letter to Glass proposing that, as fellow sons of Lynchburg, they put their differences behind them.

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  • The Milwaukee Journal of July 28, 1943, reported on an interview with Owen under the headline "'Global Alphabet' to Help World Harmony Offered": "Using 41 novel symbols and holding 16 others in reserve, former United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has developed a "global alphabet" he thinks capable of breaking down the world's language barriers. "Through it, I can teach any reasonably intelligent man Chinese in two months," he said. "It is a means by which we can teach the English language to all the world at high speed and negligible cost. It will pay its own way." Although at first glance Owen's alphabet appears to resemble some shorthand systems, he says it is entirely different. His is based on 18 vowel sounds, 18 consonants and 5 double consonants – "ch," "sh," "th," "ng" and "wh." The 41 regular letters are little hooks and wiggles and slashes and curves. In case it develops that Tibetan or Urdu or some other tongue contains sounds not capable of expression by the 41, Owen has 16 orthographic substitutes warming the bench ..... A former Indian agent for the five civilized tribes in Oklahoma, Owen was inspired by Chief Sequoia, who in 1823 invented an 85 character alphabet which enabled his Cherokee tribesman to learn in two or three weeks to write their own language." Accessed online on July 19, 2014 at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19430728&id=i-8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FSMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5551,5029640 Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine

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  • The text of the 1908 Act is accessible online at: http://thorpe.ou.edu/treatises/statutes/Fct35.html. As background, the Dawes Commission (established 1893), followed by the Curtis Act of 1898, had promoted the conversion of the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Cherokee, from collective ownership to individual allotments (these five tribes had been excluded from the (comparable) provisions of the earlier Dawes Act of 1887). Typically, the above measures prevented recipients from selling their land for 25 years, unless a waiver was obtained from the Interior Department. The 1908 Act: (a) removed all restrictions on the sale of allotments by recipients who were less than half blood Indians; (b) removed restrictions on sale of lands other than homesteads by recipients who were between one half and three quarters Indian (the Act set restrictions on the sale of homesteads by this group to remain until 1931); and (c) maintained until 1931 all restrictions on alienation of land by recipients who were three quarters Indian or more, though the Interior Department was still permitted to lift such restrictions on a case-by-case basis.

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  • United States Senate – States in the Senate – Oklahoma – Timeline. Accessed on 02/07/2018 at: https://www.senate.gov/states/OK/timeline.htm.
  • Both Keso and the Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Senate quote Owen's service in the Senate as ending on March 3rd rather than March 4th, 1925. However, U.S. Senate Document 98-29 published in 1984 and entitled "The Term of a Senator — When Does It Begin and End?" indicates that, prior to 1934, regular Senate terms both began and ended on March 4th of the relevant year. Accessed on 03/01/11 at: https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/termofasenator.pdf.
  • Three sources were used to compile this list: (1) The "Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress" entry for Owen, (2) "Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees, 1789–present", accessed on 01/20/11 at: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/CommitteeChairs.pdf, and (3) Keso, Appendix A, which provides a full listing of all Owen's committee assignments. Note that these sources occasionally provide contradictory information. Thus, the Biographical Dictionary cites Owen as chairman of the Committee on the Improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries in the 62nd Congress, whereas the "Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees" lists Sen. Jeff Davis as the Committee's chair at the time; Keso shows Owen as a member of the committee, but not its chair. See also the subsequent footnote on Indian Depredations.

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  • "Oklahoma's First Senator Dies." The Chronicles of Oklahoma, accessed at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v025/v025p178.pdf Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine; Memoirs of Narcissa Owen; and Keso, Edward Elmer. The Senatorial Career of Robert Latham Owen. Gardenvale, Canada: Garden City Press, 1938.
  • "Oklahoma's First Senator Dies." The Chronicles of Oklahoma, accessed at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v025/v025p178.pdf Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  • Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, accessed on 12/11/10 at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/o/ow003.html Archived 2010-10-18 at the Wayback Machine
  • The formal record is as follows: 202 U.S. 101; 26 S.Ct. 588; 50 L.Ed. 949. UNITED STATES, Appt., v. CHEROKEE NATION. NO 346. EASTERN CHEROKEES, Appts., v. CHEROKEE NATION and United States. NO 347. CHEROKEE NATION, Appt., v. UNITED STATES. NO 348. Nos. 346, 347, 348. Argued January 16, 17, 18, 1906. Decided April 30, 1906. See also discussion in "Oklahoma's First Senator Dies." The Chronicles of Oklahoma, accessed at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v025/v025p178.pdf Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine and Memoirs of Narcissa Owen pp. 38–39.
  • For an indication of the controversy over some of Owen's land deals, which largely focused on the terms upon which Owen had obtained access to various plots of Indian land, see: Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, accessed on 12/11/10 at: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/o/ow003.html Archived 2010-10-18 at the Wayback Machine. Belcher takes a more skeptical view of these criticisms of Owen, arguing that they tended to be raised at election time, and never resulted in any actionable charges. Scales and Goble in their history of Oklahoma politics report (p. 7) that, in pre-statehood days, much of the time of local politicians was absorbed in efforts to create scandals about one other.
  • For the park's establishment as a memorial to Owen's work on the Federal Reserve Act, see Ted Todd in "On Robert Latham Owen" in TEN magazine, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Fall 2007 (accessed on 01/18/11 at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)). The National Archives provide a date of September 18, 1976 for the dedication of the park.
  • National Archives, Center for Legislative Archives, Guide to the Records of the U.S. Senate at the National Archives (Record Group 46), Records of the Select and Standing Committees on Pacific Railroads, 1889–1921. Accessed on 01/21/11 at: https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/senate/chapter-07-pacific-railroads-1889-1921.html Archived 2017-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  • The Milwaukee Journal of July 28, 1943, reported on an interview with Owen under the headline "'Global Alphabet' to Help World Harmony Offered": "Using 41 novel symbols and holding 16 others in reserve, former United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has developed a "global alphabet" he thinks capable of breaking down the world's language barriers. "Through it, I can teach any reasonably intelligent man Chinese in two months," he said. "It is a means by which we can teach the English language to all the world at high speed and negligible cost. It will pay its own way." Although at first glance Owen's alphabet appears to resemble some shorthand systems, he says it is entirely different. His is based on 18 vowel sounds, 18 consonants and 5 double consonants – "ch," "sh," "th," "ng" and "wh." The 41 regular letters are little hooks and wiggles and slashes and curves. In case it develops that Tibetan or Urdu or some other tongue contains sounds not capable of expression by the 41, Owen has 16 orthographic substitutes warming the bench ..... A former Indian agent for the five civilized tribes in Oklahoma, Owen was inspired by Chief Sequoia, who in 1823 invented an 85 character alphabet which enabled his Cherokee tribesman to learn in two or three weeks to write their own language." Accessed online on July 19, 2014 at: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19430728&id=i-8ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FSMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5551,5029640 Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
  • "Former Oklahoma Senator Dies At 91". Associated Press in the Baltimore Sun. July 20, 1947. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
  • As this article has shown, Owen and Glass had espoused radically different visions for the Federal Reserve. Even after passage of the eventual compromise version, relations between the two men remained difficult. They were far apart in their overall political philosophies: Owen a Progressive, Glass a southern states' rights Democrat and segregationist. They were rival candidates for the presidency at the 1920 party convention (though neither truly rose above "favorite son" status). The chief bone of contention between them, however, concerned which of them deserved more of the credit for the Federal Reserve Act. In Allan Meltzer's words, "Glass gave no credit" to Owen (A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1, 1913–51. Chapter 3, footnote 5). According to Ted Todd in "On Robert Latham Owen" in TEN magazine, Kansas City Federal Reserve, Fall 2007, accessed on 12/23/10 at: "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Glass was "outraged" at Owen's account of the evolution of the Glass-Owen Act in Owen's 1919 book. Owen, in turn, resented what he considered the undue credit given to Glass, at his own expense, as father of the Act. Owen declined to attend the 1938 unveiling of a bust to Glass at the Federal Reserve. Later, though, he wrote an emollient letter to Glass proposing that, as fellow sons of Lynchburg, they put their differences behind them.