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Honoring W D Owens and Local Notables
A detailed account describes honors for W D Owens with musical tributes led by Prof Henry Harries highlighting Owens’s record as a conductor. The piece lists attendees from the Lehigh Valley Coal Co and regional figures including A B Jessup, Charles Straw, and many West Pittston officials, plus a Quay Memorial editorial note from the Wilkes-Barre Record advocating marble statue considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Harries
Owens
Harries
Asten
A. B. Jessup
Wilkesharre
Lehigh Valley Coal Co
Charles Straw
Wilkesbarre
W. D. Owens
West Pittston
Lehigh Valley Coal
Thomas Thomas
Lehigh Vi Goat’ Co
Charles L. Shave
Lehigh ‘Valley Coal Co
W. 8. Soloman
Cief
Prof
J. Beard
Scranton
Albert H. Browning
James McCabe
Exeterborough
Davis
Plymouth
Dodson Coal Co
Thomas R. Evans
Parrish Coal” Co
Henry G. Davis
Kingston
D. W. Evans
Pittston
Stevens Coal Co
W. G. Thomas
Pond Creek Coal Co
J. T. Grimt
D. D
Edwardsville
W. Stephens
Table Evans