Crisp-Worth County GaArchives Biographies.....Powell, Ivy Milton 1866 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 769-770

   IVY MILTON POWELL. A man of keen foresight and unquestioned business ability
and judgment, Ivy Milton Powell occupies a conspicuous position among the
enterprising and influential citizens of Cordele, as owner of the Cordele
Electric Light & Power Company, and of Powell's Garage, being actively
associated with two of the leading industrial enterprises of this part of Crisp
county. A native of North Carolina, he was born, September 16, 1866, in Clinton.
Sampson county, being a son of Milton and Elizabeth Powell, lifelong residents
of North Carolina. He is one of a family of eight children, six sons and two
daughters, as follows: J. W., who died in North Carolina; G. H., a miller in
North Carolina; I. W., engaged in farming in his native state; 0. J., engaged in
mercantile business in North Carolina; Rev. L. J., a Baptist minister, now
located in Grafton, "West Virginia; Ivy Milton; Neely, wife of E. Williamson, a
North Carolina farmer; and Livingston, who died, aged about thirteen years.

   Growing to manhood in his native state, Ivy Milton Powell determined as a
young man to try the hazard of new fortunes, and in his quest came to Georgia.
About 1889 he took up his residence in Cordele, and has since acquired
distinction along various lines of enterprise. In 1897, when the service of the
Cordele Electric Light & Power Company was very unsatisfactory, Mr. Powell
purchased the plant from the city, and has since so thoroughly improved and
equipped it that it has now reached a high state of efficiency. For the past
five years Mr. Powell has been actively engaged in the automobile business, for
a year occupying his present location, his garage being a fully equipped
building, sixty-two feet by one hundred twelve and one-half feet, with a cement
floor. In this line he has built up a substantial business, handling both the
Olds and the Overland machines, automobiles of the highest type of construction,
and eminently satisfactory to all buyers. Mr. Powell is also an extensive
landholder, owning a farm of one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-six acres
adjoining the city.

   Mr. Powell married, in 1890, Beulah Johnson, a daughter of William Johnson,
of Worth county, Georgia, and they are the parents of three children, namely:
Edwin, born in 1895; Ivy, born in 1900; and Louise, born in 1905. Mr. and Mrs.
Powell are both Baptists in religion.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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