This subgroup consists of records relating to or created by Owen F. Beal, Principal of Weber Academy from 1917-1918, and President of Weber Normal College from 1918-1919. Owen was born on July 12, 1882 in Ephraim, Utah. He graduated from Snow College in 1904, obtained a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1912, and received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Utah in 1915. He served an LDS mission to England from 1907-1910. He married Christabel Faux in 1913. Before working at Weber, Owen served as principal of Wasatch and Moroni High Schools, as a teacher in elementary schools in Richfield and Salina, and as head of the Economics and Sociology Department at the Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. He served as principal of Weber Academy from 1917-1918 and President of Weber Normal College from 1918-1919. He left in 1919 to pursue a doctorate at Columbia University, which he received in 1923. He joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah in 1923, and retired from that institution in 1948. Owen did post-doctoral study at the University of Chicago, the University of California, and the University of Southern California. After retirement participated in instructional programs to prepare immigrants for U.S. citizenship examinations. He published numerous articles and more than nineteen scholarly monographs during his career. Owen died in Salt Lake City on December 14, 1963.