Robert C. Owens

Robert C. Owens. Actor: Injustice. A lifetime Angeleno, Robert C. Owens was the grandson of Mrs. Biddy Mason, a slave from Missouri, who in 1856, successfully petitioned the California state Supreme Court for freedom for her and her family. Owens, her oldest grandchild, started as a farmer and rancher and the owner of his father's livery stable in on Spring Street in Los Angeles. By 1900, he had built on...