Powell, Joseph
merchant, banker, congressman, was born June 23, 1848, in Towanda, Pa. He became president of the First National bank of Towanda, and engaged in other business enterprises. He was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
POWELL, LAZARUS WHITEHEAD, lawyer, state legislator, governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 6, 1812, in Henderson county, Ky. In 1836 he was elected to the Kentucky legislature; was a presidential elector in 1844; and was governor of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855.
He was chosen a senator in congress for the long term commencing in 1859. He died July 3, 1867, in Henderson county, Ky.