Richard Spurgeon Owens, whose class in Richmond is 1904, himself a minister, was a ministers son, and was born October 28, 1880, in Hempstead, King George County, Virginia. Like Cox, he belonged to Philogian, but upon leaving Richmond, spent four years at Colgate Theological Seminary graduating in 1907. His career in the ministry called him to Baptist churches in Washington D.C., Roanoke, Virginia, and for four years, 1917-1921, as instructor in Fishburn Military Academ