Father: Beauchamp Beacham Owens;
Mother Nancy Ann Taylor
1850 - Schoolmaster (living with his parents), Barnwell District, SC [indexed in the U.S. Census for 1850 as "Hamier Owens"]
1857-1859 - Attended, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1859 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Barnwell, SC; preceptor: Dr. S. L. Owens; thesis: "On Puerperal Fever")
1860 - Practiced medicine, Fairfield District, SC
04/11/1861 - Enlisted, 6th SC Infantry, Confederate States Army, Buckhead, SC
06/19/1861 - Pvt., Capt. E. J. Means' Co., Summerville, SC
07/00/1861 - On extra duty in Hospital Department
08/31/1861 - On extra duty in Hospital Department by order of Col.
10/00/1861 - On extra duty in Hospital Department as Hospital Steward
12/00/1861 - On extra duty in Hospital Department as Hospital Steward
01/00/1862 - On extra duty in Hospital Department as Hospital Steward
06/00/1862 - Detailed in Medical Department
08/28/1862 - "The following privates are appointed hospital stewards, and will report for duty as designated:....H. H. Owens [sic - H. W. Owens], of Company G, Sixth South Carolina Volunteers, to the colonel of his regiment...."
[S.O. 201/14]
12/00/1862 - Absent sick at hospital since 10/24/1862
02/00/1863 - Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry
04/00/1863 - On duty as Hospital Steward in Camp near Franklin [?TN]
06/00/1863 - Absent on furlough
12/31/1863 - Hospital Steward on detached service near Chattanooga, TN
02/00/1864 - Absent on sick furlough
04/00/1864 - Present as Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry
06/00/1864 - Present as Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry
08/00/1864 - Present as Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry
08/15/1864 - Admitted, Jackson Hospital, Richmond, VA cause: hepatitis)
09/19/1864 - Returned to duty
10/00/1864 - Absent from 6th SC Infantry, sick
12/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry - "due $100 Bounty Bond"
02/25/1865 - Granted a furlough
04/09/1865 - Paroled, Appomattox, VA, as Hospital Steward, 6th SC Infantry
~1869 - Married, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Bell (she died in 1908)
1870 - Practiced medicine, Township No. 12, Fairfield Co., SC
1880 - Practiced medicine, Township No. 13, Fairfield Co., SC
1886,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Monticello, Fairfield Co., SC
04/13/1895 - Died, Monticello, Fairfield Co., SC

Note: After the death of Dr. Owens his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Owens, moved to Texas with their son, Edward.

Anna O'Quinn Richter and Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/08/2014. Unpublished database.

The following was added by GMG (#47391530):

Harrison W. Owens, son of Beecham M. Owens and Nancy Ann [nee Taylor], was married to Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Bell, daughter of Maj. William and Margaret McClure [nee Bell] Bell; with whom he had the following known children:
Beecham Bell, M.D. (1870-1912)
Edward Lawrence (1878-1963)
Paul Judson (1881-1955)
Harry W (1884-1947)
GMG (#47391530)