Richard Spurgeon Owens
was a minister's son, and was born October 28, 1880, in Hempstead, King George County, Virginia. When he graduated from Richmond in 1904, he spent four years at Colgate Theological Seminary, to become a minister, graduating in 1907. His career in the ministry called him to Baptist churches in Washington, D.C., Roanoke, Virginia, and for four years, 1917-1921, as an instructor in Fishburn Military Academy in Waynesboro, Virginia. Before his death on July 6, 1950, he was trustee of the University of Richmond, Bluefield College, and also of the Baptist Orphanage in Salem, Virginia. |
