Powell, Levin Myne – Prall, John Andrew
Powell, Levin Myne
naval officer, was born in 1800 in Loudoun county, Va.
He was appointed midshipman in the United States navy in 1817; became lieutenant in 1826; and received the thanks of congress for his services during that campaign. He died Jan. 15, 1885, in Washington, D. C.
Powell, Nathan
pioneer, merchant, banker, was born Oct. 18, 1814, in Frederick county, Md. In 1848 he assisted in reorganizing the old Madison Life, Fire and Marine Insurance company, in Madison, Ind. He became one of its largest stockholders, and has been its president since 1851.
Powell, Paulus
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1849; and continued in that capacity to the close of the thirty-fifth congress.
Powell, Samuel
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1815 to 1817.
Powell, Simon T
banker, lawyer, was born Aug. 21, 1821, near Cambridge City, Ind. In 1877 he was made president of the Bundy National bank, in New Castle, Ind. In 1871 he was honored by President Grant with the appointment of supervisor of internal revenue.
Powell, Thomas
author, was born Sept. 3, 1809, in London, England. He was an English writer who came to America in 1849, and was for many years connected with the Frank Leslie publications. He wrote a number of plays, among which are, True at Last; The Shepherd's Well. Other works of his are, Florentine Tales; Tales from Boccaccio; Living Authors of England; and Living Authors of America. He died Jan. 13, 1887, in Newark, N. J.
Powell, William Byrd
educator, physician, was born Jan. 8, 1799, in Bourbon county, Ky. In 1865 he was chosen professor emeritus of cerebral physiology in the New York Eclectic Medical college, but he did not lecture in that institution.
He died July 3, 1867, in Henderson, Ky.
Powell, William Henry
artist, was born Feb. 14, 1823, in New York city.
He exhibited first at the Academy of Design, N. Y., in 1838, and was elected an associate in 1839; and attained note as a painter. He died Oct. 6, 1879, in New York city.
Powell, William Henry
soldier, manufacturer, was born May 10, 1825, in South Wales. He was made brigadiergeneral of volunteers in October, 1864. After the war he settled in West Virginia, declined a nomination for congress in 1865, and was a republican presidential elector in 1868. He is president of a manufacturing company in Belleville, Ill.
POWER, FREDERICK BELDING, chemist, educator, author, was born March 4, 1853, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1881-83 he was professor of analytical chemistry at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and he then was called to the chair of pharmacy and materia medica in the university of Wisconsin, with charge of the newly established department of pharmacy. He is the author of several medical works.
Power, Thomas C
civil engineer, United States senator, governor, was born May 22, 1839, in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1867 he located at Fort Benton, the head of navigation; and was president of the Benton P. line of steamers. He is interested in cattle, mines and various mercantile companies. He located in Helena in 1878; and was elected a member of the first constitutional convention of Montana in 1883. He was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1888; and was nominated by the republicans of his state for governor in 1889. He was elected to the United States senate in
Powers, Daniel William
banker, financier, was born June 14, 1818, in Batavia, N. Y. Two handsome buildings have been constructed in Rochester by him-one of them the Powers Commercial building, for business and office purposes, which now contains the Powers Art gallery, valued at over $1,000,000, and the Powers hotel, connecting on all floors above the first with the former. He was for fourteen years president of the trustees of the city hospital, and is now president of the Home for the Friendless and the Powers Banking company.
Powers, Edward
civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1830, in Amenia, N. Y. He is a civil engineer who published a work entitled War and the Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain.
Powers, Eliza Howard
philanthropist, was born in 1802. From 1862 till 1864 she was associate manager of the United States sanitary commission of New Jersey, and acting president of the Florence Nightingale Relief association of Paterson, N. J. The forty-eighth congress voted her a pension. She died Aug. 25, 1887, in Washington, D. C.
Powers, George Herman
oculist, aurist, was born June 13, 1840, in Boston, Mass. Since 1866 he has practiced his profession in San Francisco, Cal.; has been oculist to the city and county hospitals and various other hospitals of San Francisco. For many years he filled the chair of ophthalmology and otology in the university of California; and is noted as one of the foremost oculists and aurists in America.
Powers, Gershom
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.
Powers, Grant
clergyman, author, was born May 31, 1784, in Hollis, N. H.
He was a minister at Haverhill, N. H., in 1815-29; and at Goshen, Conn., from 1829 till his death. He published Essay on False Hope in Religion; Centennial Address; and Historical Sketches of the Settlement of the Coos Country, 1784-85. He died April 10, 1841, in Goshen, Conn.
Powers, Henry H
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1835, in Morristown, Vt. He was a member of the house of representatives of Vermont in 1858; and was prosecuting attorney of Lamoille county in 1861-62.
He was a member of the state senate in 1872-73; and was speaker of the house of representatives in 1874. He was judge of the supreme court of Vermont from 1874 to 1890; and was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Powers, Hiram
sculptor, was born July 29, 1805, in Woodstock, Vt. Among his many works is his Greek Slave, which became widely celebrated, and placed the artist in the first rank of sculptors. He died June 27, 1873, in Florence, Italy.
Powers, Horatio Nelson
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1826, in Amenia, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman of Chicago, Bridgeport, and, in his latest years, of Piermont, N. Y., who was favorably known as a poet. He was the author of Early and Late; Poems; Ten Years of Song; Lyrics of the Hudson; and Through the Year, a volume of religious essays. He died Sept. 6, 1890, in Piermont, N. Y.
Powers, James Knox
educator, college president, was born Aug. 15, 1851, near Florence, Ala. The same day that he graduated from the university of Alabama he was notified of his election to the chair of mathematics in the Alabama State Normal college, of which institution he has been president since 1888.
Powers, Llewellyn
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1838 in Pittsfield, Maine. He was prosecuting attorney from 1864 to 1871; was collector of customs for the district of Aroostook, Maine, from 1868 to 1872; and was a representative in the state legislature 1874, 1875 and 1876. He was elected a representative from Maine to the fortyfifth congress as a republican. in
Powers, Orlando W
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 16, 1850, in Pultneyville, N. Y. In 1885 he was associate justice of Utah; and a member of the Utah legislature in 1894.
Powers, Ridgely C
soldier, governor, was born Dec. 24, 1836, in Mecca, Ohio. He served as an assistant adjutant-general in the war for the union. He moved to the state of Mississippi in 1865; was lieutenant-governor in 1870; and in 1871 was elected governor of the state.
Powers, Theodore Taylor
educator, lawyer, was born Jan. 21, 1866, in Centerville, Iowa. He received a liberal education in the public schools, and was a graduate of the law department of Drake university at Des Moines, Iowa.
For several years he was engaged in educational work; was a candidate for state representative for Appanoose county, Iowa, in 1893; and is now a prominent lawyer of Phoenix, Arizona.
Powers, Wilbur Howard
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 22, 1849, in Croydon, N. H. He attended the public schools; graduated from Kimball Union academy in 1871; from Dartmouth college in 1875; from Boston university School of Law in 1878, with the degree of LL. B.; and in 1880 he received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth college.
He has attained success as an able lawyer of Hyde Park, Mass.; was town solicitor in 1889-90; a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature during 1890-92; and presidential elector in 1897. Since 1893 he has been a member of the park commission, being also its secretary and chairman.
Pownall, Thomas
governor, author, was born in 1720 in England. In 1757 he was elected governor of Massachusetts, resigning in 1760. He wrote The Middle States of America; and Letters Advocating Free Trade. He died Feb. 25, 1805, in England.
Poyas, Catherine Gendron
poet, was born April 27, 1813, in Charleston, S. C. She was a poet of Charleston; and the author of Huguenot Daughters, and Other Verses; and A Year of Grief.
She died Feb. 7, 1882, in Charleston, S. C.
Poydras, Julian
congressman, was born April 3, 1746, in France. He was a delegate in congress from the territory of Louisiana from 1809 to 1812. He died June 2, 1824, in Louisiana.
Prall, John Andrew
lawyer, was born Jan. 13, 1827, in Woodford county, Ky. In 1859 he was nominated for the state senate from Kentucky. He entered the senate and was chairman of the committee on federal relations continuously for six years. He was the candidate of his party for the senate of the United States, and received forty-seven votes on joint-ballot, the largest republican vote ever cast in the Kentucky legislature.