Owen, Thomas J.V.

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Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen, whose grandparents were from Wales, is considered “The True Founder of Chicago”. He became the first president of the Town of Chicago in 1833, and is responsible for sub-dividing the city into sections and towns.


Downloadable book: Chicago's true founder, Thomas J.V. Owen : a pleading for truth and for social justice in Chicago history, By James Ryan Haydon, Chicago Research Journalist, with Twenty Illustrations and 500 Chicagoans of 1833.

Printed Privately for the Author, by the Owen Memorial Fund, James Ryan Haydon, Director, Lombard, Illinois. Copyright 1934, by James Ryan Haydon. 344 pages.

Download address:

https://ia601200.us.archive.org/34/items/chicagostruefoun00hayd/chicagostruefoun00hayd.pdf