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Author: James L. King (1905)

L. M. POWELL, A. B., M. D.

    L. M. POWELL, A. B., M. D., is one of the most distinguished physicians and
surgeons of Topeka, where he has been engaged in practice for many years. He was
born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1858, and is one of two children born to Charles
Morgan and Margaret Ann (Lewis) Powell. His father, now deceased, was a
successful contractor in Iowa until his death in 1860. His mother was again
married to Rev. J. W. Clock, in 1863.

    Dr. L. M. Powell accompanied his parents to Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1871,
and there attended school. He attended Baker University, then known as the "Old
Chapel," and in 1878 was graduated from the High School at Ottawa, Kansas. He
took a one year course in the Baptist College, of Ottawa, and then entered the
University of Kansas at Lawrence, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. He also took the preparatory medical course offered
by the University. He was for two years assistant to the professor of chemistry.
He then engaged in teaching school for a number of years, serving as principal
of the High School at Newton, Kansas, one year, principal of the Quincy School
at North Topeka one year, and of Lincoln School at Topeka one year. In 1888 he
entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was
graduated with the class of 1891. Upon leaving that institution he came West to
Topeka, Kansas, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with a high
degree of success. He fills the chair of clinical obstetrics in the Kansas
Medical College, at Topeka. He is a Phi Beta Kappa. For five years he was
chemist and microscopist for the State Board of Health. He was president of the
Board of Health of Topeka one year, and is secretary of the medical staff of the
Jane C. Stormont Hospital. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the
Kansas State Medical Society and the Shawnee County Medical Society. He
represented the Fourth Ward on the School Board one term while residing in that
ward. He has a fine suite of offices in the Central National Bank Building, and
commands the most desirable practice in the city.

    In 1888, at the close of his school teaching, Dr. Powell was joined in
marriage with Clara Bunker, of Marion, Ohio, and they have four children: Grace
D., Loretta M., Elizabeth C. and Wendell B. Religiously, they are members of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Topeka.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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