Edward T. Owen Mar 4, 1850 – Nov 9, 1931
Educator and real estate speculator
A driving force behind the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive
Association
In 1892 he bought a fourteen-acre tract of what was then wooded land along a commanding
height about a mile south of Lake Mendota, parallel to the northern boundary of Calvary Cemetery.
He donated the land to the city as a pleasure drive, Owen
Parkway, dedicated to the memory of his daughters, both of whom died during a diphtheria
epidemic.
Emilie Brace Nov 17, 1850 – Aug 17, 1934
Two boulders mark opposite sides of Regent Street @ Speedway & Highland Avenue:
One simply is inscribed “Owen Drive”
The other “For Ethel and Nell To the City They Loved From Their Father and Mother”
Ethel Pratt Owen (July 23, 1876 - November 23, 1890)
Cornelia Loomis Owen (June 17, 1880 - December 4, 1890)
