Biographical Sketch of George W. Powell, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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George W. Powell, manager of the Midland Blast Furnace Company's store,
at Hawkins, since August 27, 1881, and son of Joseph E. and Cynthia A.
(Elliott) Powell, was born in Crawford county, Mo., in 1852.  The 
parents were born in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, were
married in Tenn., moved to Central Illinois, where they remained until
about 1844, and then came to Crawford county, Mo.  Here the father died
in 1872, at the age of sixty-five, and the mother died in 1880, at the
age of sixty-four or sixty-five.  The father was a successful tiller of
the soil, and improved a good farm in Steelville Valley.  He and wife
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for many years.
Of their twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, George W. was
the tenth.  He attained his growth on the farm, and received his educa-
tion in the common schools and in Steelville Academy.  At the age of
nineteen he began teaching, and followed this occupation for nine or 
ten years in Crawford, Washington, Phelps, Texas and Gasconade counties
meeting with good success.  The last two years he was principal of Cuba
School, and during vacation he clerked, etc., until he came to his 
present position.  He and his brother, Benjamin F., recently establish-
ed a store at Cook Station, which is now in charge of the latter.  Mr.
Powell has a farm of 200 acres in Norman township, nearly all the 
result of his own industry and hard work.  He was married May 9, 1882,
to Miss Mary A., daughter of David and Lucinda Bressie.  The father 
died in Tenn., while in the Union army, but the mother is still living
in Dent county.  To Mr. and Mrs. Powell were born three children.  Mr.
Powell is a Democrat in politics, his first presidential vote being for
Greeley in 1872, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church.  Mr.
Powell had two brothers in the Confederate army: Henry E., who was 
captured at Big Blue, died in the St. Louis Hospital, and German H.,
who died in Little Rock, Ark., while in the service.  He was a chaplain
and died soon after the battle of Prairie Grove, in which he participa-
ted.  Mr. Powell is postmaster at Condray post office.

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