Author: Owen N. Wilcox
Alternate names: Owen Nelson Wilcox
Born: 29 Jan 1880
Died: 25 Oct 1950
Bio: Owen Nelson Wilcox passed through consecutive grades in the Cleveland public schools to his graduation from Central high school with the class of 1898, and completed a course in Adelbert College in 1902 with the B. L. degree. He then matriculated in the Western Reserve University law school where he won his professional degree in 1905, and the same year was admitted to the bar and entered upon his chosen life work. While he has continued in the general practice of law he has made a specialty of probate law and is also president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company, publishers of briefs and records for other lawyers for use in supreme court practice. In politics he is an independent republican, the demands of his profession leaving him little leisure time for political work even if he desired to become a leader in party ranks.

On the 14th of October, 1905, Mr. Wilcox was married to Miss Margaret Knowlton, a daughter of Dr. William A. and Fannie (Snow) Knowlton, the former a practicing physician and surgeon of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox had two children, William and Benjamin. In his college days Mr. Wilcox became a member of the Delta Tau Delta, the Phi Delta Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa, all of the Western Reserve University. He was likewise a member of the Odd Fellows lodge and his interest in affairs relating to the city was indicated by his membership in the Chamber of Commerce. His broad general knowledge, his social nature and his consideration for the rights and privileges of others are qualities which made him popular and gained him a circle of friends almost coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance.