Bown, Harry L

From Lane Co Oregon

Harry L. Bown followed Fred Fisk as Sheriff of Lane County. He was elected in 1906 and served until 1913. A native Oregonian, he was born near Elmira in 1867. He was a school teacher who later became Lane County Judge. In a write-up in the Eugene Morning Register in 1911, Bown was called a "natural-born manhunter, combining in his makeup those qualities of quiet courage and dogged persistence with tireless energy. Perhaps no Sheriff in the entire state is better informed about the devious ways of the common criminal and the inside workings of the machinery of the law operating to apprehend the crooks than is the name Harry Bown."