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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.