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OWEN, John, publisher, born in Portland, Maine, 28 March, 1805; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 22 April, 1882. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1827, and at Harvard divinity-school in 1829, but never accepted a charge. He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a bookseller in 1833, and published the early works of his friend and college mate, Henry W. Longfellow, and those of James Russell Lowell. Mr. Owen failed in business in 1848, and was subsequently interested in real estate. He aided Mr. Longfellow in the preparation of his "Poems of Places" (Boston, 1876-'9), especially in verifying authorship. He was also the friend and literary adviser of Charles Sumner, and induced him to publish his writings in a uniform edition.
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