Owen Davies was born in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire in 1840 and studied at Llangollen Baptist College. He was ordained in 1865 and was minister at Llangollen and later Caernarfon, where he stayed until his retirement in 1905. He died in 1929.
He was editor of Y Greal, the Welsh monthly Baptist Magazine, and possessed one of the finest private libraries in Wales.