The old citizens who remembered Jackson Owen always spoke of him with a smile.

He held an undisputed record of having been defeated for more offices than any other Hoosier of his time.

His chief assets when he died were a number of farms, plastered with mortgages, scattered over the commonwealth in inaccessible localities.

His wife, left a widow with a daughter who died at fourteen, addressed herself zealously to the task of paying the indebtedness with which the lamented Jackson had encumbered his property.

She had made a point of clinging to all the farms that had been so profitless under his direction, and so successfully had she managed them that they were all paying handsomely.