Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Power, James  January 18, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): April 27, 1864
Died on the 18th of January, 1864, Dr. James Power, of Elizabeth, Twp., Allegheny
County, Pa., at the advanced age of 84 years, 3 months, and 9 days. This venerable
man was born in Chester County, Pa., October 9th, 1779, and was one of the few
amongst us whose birth dates back to a period anterior to the establishment of our
national independence. His father, Major John Power, one of the pioneers who
emigrated to Western Pennsylvania when it was almost an unbroken forest, established
himself in Elizabeth Township when the subject of this sketch was but two years of
age. Major Power was a faithful elder of the Round Hill church, whilst, as an
efficient magistrate and a public-spirited citizen, he had no superior during his
long and useful life. His wife, the mother of Dr. Power, was the daughter of Rev.
James Finley, whose name is embalmed in the memory of all who love to recall the
list of those self-denying and self-sacrificing servants of God, who first preached
the Gospel in Western Pennsylvania. Dr. James Power, the oldest son of these
parents, was tenderly and faithfully brought up in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord. When quite a youth, he was sent to Jefferson College, where he completed his
course, partly under the supervision of that remarkable and gifted man, whose career
was so brief and brilliant, the Rev. John Watson, the first President of that
Institution. Dr. Power, in connection with the late Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, Rev.
Cephus Tod, Rev.  Dr. James Carnahan, (late President of Princeton College,) and a
few others, took part in the founding and organization of the Franklin Literary
Society of Jefferson College 
Upon leaving College, he applied himself with diligence to the usual preparatory
medical studies, after which he attended a coarse of medical lectures in
Philadelphia where Dr. Rush, the prince of American physicians, was then in the
zenith of his fame. Completing his medical course, he returned to Elizabeth
Township, and entered upon a very extensive practice. He married the daughter of the
late Col. Torrence, of Fayette County, united himself with the Presbyterian church,
and became a most active and useful man. He was a Ruling Elder in Round Hill church
for more than forty years. After some years, having lost by death his first wife,
the mother of five children, he married the daughter of the late John Jack, Esq., of
Westmoreland County. She still survives to mourn her irreparable loss, but consoled
and supported by Him who has said "Thy Maker is thy Husband." Dr. Power’s second
union was also blessed with a large family of sons and daughters, most of whom have
married and settled in life, reflecting credit upon the. early and faithful training
of their beloved parents. A few years ago, the Doctor and his family were greatly
afflicted by the death of his son Thomas, a young man of uncommon worth and promise;
and a short time before his own decease, he was called to mourn the unexpected
departure from this life of his son, the Rev. Francis Herron Power, who died in the
service of his Saviour and his country, at Nashville, Tenn., and of whom an obituary
notice was published in the Banner, of Nov. 18th, 1863... 

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