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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.

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, 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.