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Rh many years, aiding Leigh Hunt, William Words- worth, and Richard H. Home in their " Moderniza- tion of Chaucer," and Home in his new " Spirit of the Age " (London, 1844). He came to this coun- try in "ls4!>. and from that date till his death was connected with Frank Leslie's publications. He was the first editor of " Frank Leslie's Weekly," which he established in 1855, and of " Prank Leslie's Ladies' Magazine " in 1857. He was sub- sequently connected also with various short-lived journals in New York city, and wrote several plays that were successfully produced in New York and London. His publications in this country include "The Living Authors in Great Britain " (New York, 184!*); "Living Authors in America" (1850): and "Pictures of the Living Authors of Great Britain " (1851).

POWELL, Walker, Canadian legislator, b. in Norfolk county. Ont,, 20 May, 1838. His paternal grandfather, a loyalist, was born in the province of NYw York in 1763 and died in Norfolk in 1849, and his father (1801-'52) was a warden of Norfolk county, a lieutenant-colonel of militia, and repre- sented Norfolk county in the legislative assembly of Canada from 1840" till 1847. Walker Powell was educated at Victoria college, and afterward engaged in commercial enterprises. In 1856 he was warden of Norfolk county, and its representa- tive in the Canada assembly from 1857 till 1861. After a long previous connection with the Cana- dian militia Mr. Powell was appointed deputy adjutant-general of Upper Canada, 19 Aug., 1862 ; deputy adjutant-general for the Dominion at head- quarters. 1 Oct., 1868 ; acting adjutant-general, 22 Aug., 1873 : and adjutant-general, 21 April, 1875, which appointment he recently resigned.

POWELL, William Byrd, physician, b. in Bourbon county, Ky., 8 Jan.. 1799 ; d. in Hender- son, Ky., 3 July, "1867. He was graduated at Transylvania university in 1820, and at the medi- cal department there in 1823, devoted himself to the study of the physiology of the brain, and prose- cuted his investigations among the Indian tribes, professing to read the temperament from an ex- amination of the cranium alone. He became pro- fessor of chemistry in the Medical college of Louisi- ana in 1835. and" in 1849 organized the Memphis medical institute, taking the chair of cerebral physi- ology. He was professor of a similar branch in the Cincinnati eclectic medical institute in 1856-'9, and lectured there two or three years. In 1865 he was chosen professor emeritus of cerebral physiol- ogy in the New York eclectic medical college, but he did not lecture in that institution. His collec- tion of skulls numbered 500, and was probably the next in value and variety to that of Dr. Samuel G. Morton (q. v.). Dr. Powell professed to have dis- covered a measurement that indicated infallibly the vital force, and the signs of vital tenacity. He was a member of numerous domestic and foreign scientific societies, and a frequent contributor to professional literature. He t published "Natural History of the Human Temperament " (Cincinnati. Ohio, 1856) ; and, with Dr. Robert S. Newton, " The Eclectic Practice of Medicine " (] 857) ; and an " Ec- lectic Treatise on the Diseases of Children " (1857).

POWELL, William Henry, artist, b. in New York city, 14 Feb., 1823; d. there, 6 Oct., 1879. He began the study of art at the age of nineteen under Henry Inman, in New York, and after- ward studied in Paris and Florence. He exhibited fir^l .-it tin- Academy of design, X. V.. in 1838, and was elected an associate in 1S31I. His nainr was era-ed from the list in 1S4."> " for non-compliance with the terms of election," but he was re-elected in 1854. His historical paintings include " De Soto discovering the Mississippi," at the capitol, Wash- ington (1848-'53) ; " Perry's Victory on Lake Erie," painted for the state of Ohio (1863 ; and again on an enlarged scale for the capitol, completed in 1 S M>: Siege of Vera Cruz " ; "Battle of Buena Vi-ta": "Landing of the Pilgrims"; "Scott's Entry into the City of Mexico " ; " Washington at Valley Forge " ; and " Christopher Columbus be- fore the Court of Salamanca." He also executed numerous portraits, among them those of Albert Gallatin (1843) and Erastus C. Benedict (1855) ; Pe- ter Cooper (1855) ; Washington Irving, Maj. Rob- ert Anderson, and Gen. George B. McClellan, in the city-hall, N. Y. ; Lamartine, Eugene Sue (1853); Abd el Kader, Gen. Robert Schenck, Peter Stuyve- sant, Edward Delafield. and Emma Abbott. M'any of his paintings have been engraved.

POWELL, William Henry, soldier, b. in Pon- typool, South Wales, 10 May, 1825. He came to this country in 1830, received a common-school education in Nashville, Tenn., and from 1856 till 1861 was general manager of a manufacturing company at Ironton, Ohio. In August, 1861, he became captain in the 2d West Virginia volunteer cavalry, and he was promoted to major and lieu- tenant-colonel in 1862, and to colonel, 18 May, 1863. He was wounded in leading a charge at Wytheville, Va., on 18 July, and left on the field, whence he was taken to Libby prison and confined for six months. After his exchange he led a cav- alry division in the Army of the Shenandoah, be- ing made brigadier-general of volunteers in Octo- ber, 1864. After the war he settled in West Vir- ginia, declined a nomination for congress in 1865, and was a Republican presidential elector in 1868. Gen. Powell is now (1898) president of a manufac- turing company in Belleville, Ill.

POWER, Frederick Belding, chemist, b. in Hudson, N. Y., 4 March, 1853. He was graduated at the Philadelphia college of pharmacy in 1874, and then studied at Strasburg, receiving the de- gree of Ph. D. in 1880, and serving in 1879-'80 as assistant to the professor of materia medica. In 1881-'3 he was professor of analytical chemistry at Philadelphia college of pharmacy, and he then was called to the chair of pharmacy and materia medica in the University of Wisconsin, with charge of the newly established department of pharmacy. Dr. Power is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a member of the chemical society of Berlin, and other scientific associations. Besides writing chemical papers in professional journals, he was associated in the au- thorship of " Manual of Chemical Analysis " ( Phila- delphia, 1883); translated and edited Fliiekigcr's " Cinchona Barks " (1884), and an American edi- tion of Fliickiger's and Tschich's " Principle- ol Pharmacognosy " (Xew York. 1887): and under- took the preparation of an American edition of Fliickiger's " Pharmaceutical Chemistry."

POWER, Lawrence Geoffrey, Canadian senator, b. in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August, 1S41 His father, Patrick Power, represented Halifax county in the Dominion parliament in 18t>7-'72 and in 1874-'8. The son was educated at St. Mar/s college, Halifax, Carlow college, and the Catholic university, Ireland, and at Harvard law-school, where he' was graduated in 1866. He was for ten years a member of the board of school commicsiniiers of Halifax, and is a member of the senate of the University of Halifax, and an examiner in law in that institution. He is a Reformer in politics, and was called to the Dominion senate. 2 Fell.. I*;?. Mr. Power was actively engaged in preparing" The