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Powers, Llewellyn – Pratt, Charles

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.

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.

Prall, William

lawyer, author, was born April 6, 1853, in Paterson, N. J. In 1883 he was elected to the assembly of New Jersey, and took a leading part in what was called the railway taxation issue. He drafted and secured the enactment of the free public library law, under which all the free public libraries of New Jersey have been established. In 1887 he was admitted to priesthood, and is now rector of St. John's church, Detroit, Mich.

Pratt, Alice Edwards

educator, poet. She is a writer of Rosa, Cal.; and the author of a number of poems.

Pratt, Calvin Edward

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 23, 1828, in Princeton, Mass. In 1862 he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1869 he was elected a judge of the supreme court of the state of New York, and he was re-elected in 1877 for fourteen years.

Pratt, Charles

philanthropist, was born Oct. 2, 1830, in Watertown, Mass. He displayed great interest in educational matters, and founded in Brooklyn the Pratt Industrial institute. This receives its support from the Astral flats, which were built by him, and conveyed to the institute. He died May 4, 1891, in New York city.