William Charles Owen Papers

Period 1919-1929 (1931, 1938)
Total size  0.1 m.
Consultation  Not restricted

Biography

Born in Dinapore, India 1854, died in Worthing, Great Britain 1929; anarchist; brought up in England, emigrated to the USA 1882; joined the International Working Men's Association in California; contributed to Burnette G. Haskell's paper Truth; editor of Nationalist Los Angeles and San Francisco; contributed to Commonweal, organ of the Socialist League; one of the founders of the New York Socialist League in 1890; expelled from the League in 1892; contributed to Freedom from 1893; returned to California to work as a journalist; involved in the land question, especially related to the Mexican revolution 1910-1916; edited the English section of Regeneración Los Angeles; published his own paper Land and Liberty 1914-1915; returned to England in 1916; joined the Commonwealth League, wrote for its organ Commonweal.

Content

Papers from the last decade of his life. Letters received from anarchists in Europe including George R. Edwards 1925-1929, Emma Goldman 1922, 1926, Thomas H. Keell 1928-1929, J.W. Graham Peace 1928-1929 and from Americans, including George Edwards 1927-1928, Marcus Graham 1928-1929, Joseph Ishill 1924-1928, Joseph Labadie 1924-1928, W.H. Sikes 1925-1929 and H.J. Stuart 1926-1928; diaries 1925-1926; some other documents; file of Thomas Keell relating to William Owen's final illness and death 1928-1931, 1938, including letters received from Victor B. Neuburg and others, and press clippings.