OWEN COUNTY

Owen County was formed in 1819. It was named after Abraham Owen, a colonel who died at the Battle of Tippecanoe .^[2 He was in the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, and a member of the state constitutional convention the next year. Owen served as a colonel and as aide-de-camp to William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe, where he was killed in 1811. The county seat is Spencer. The city now known as Owensboro, Kentucky established itself in 1817 with the name “Owensborough,” in honor of Owen. Two years later, in 1819, counties in Kentucky and Indiana were formed and named for him.^[1]

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