Bethenia Angelina OwensAdair was an American social reformer and one of the first female physicians in Oregon.
Bethenia Owens was born on February 8, 1840, in Van Buren County, Missouri. She was the third of eleven children born to Tom and Sarah Damron Owens. The family traveled to the Oregon Country via the Oregon Trail in 1843 with the Jesse Applegate wagon train. The family settled in the Clatsop Plains and later moved to Roseburg in the Umpqua Valley.
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