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 POWERS

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Denux?ratic national convention of 1884, from Miclii;;an; was appointed by President Cleveland, assiK-iate justice of the supreme court of Utah Territory in May. 1885, and in August, 1886, resigned and settled in practice in Salt Lake city. He was married, Oct. 2(>, 18S7, to Anna W., daughter of George and Isabelle (Drew) Whip- ple of Burlington, Iowa. He became prominent as chairman of the Gentile party of Salt Lake city in the great campaign against the Mormons in 1S89-90, wlien Salt Lake city was first carried by the Gentiles ; was elected as Gentile Demo- cratic representative to the Democratic national convention of 1893 ; was a member of the Utah territorial legislature, 1893-94 ; chairman of the Democratic state committee of Utah, 1895-96, and a delegate from Utah to the Democratic national convention of 1896. where he placed in nomination Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia for Vice-President. He took a prominent part in the campaign of 1896. speaking in all the west- ern and northwestern states. His name was presented as a candidate for U.S. senator in 1897 and 1899, and the legislature failing to elect in 1899, he was appointed U.S. senator in 1900 by Acting-Governor Nebeker to fill the vacancy, but declined, preferring to continue as a practising attorney at Salt Lake city. He is the author of : Chancery Pleadings and Practice, (1882), and Prnrticp in the Supreme Court of Michigan {IS84). POWERS, Preston, sculptor, was born in Florence, Italy, Ai)ril:3, 1843 ; son of Hiram (q. v.) and Elizabeth (Gibson) Powers. He learned the art of modeling from his father, devoting himself principally to busts and statues, 1867-73. He was married, April 16, 1872, to Henrietta Winslow, daughter of Alford and Ann (Rebecca) Dyer of Portland, Maine. He executed the statue of Jacob Collamer in 1875, placed in Statuary Hall, Washington, D.C., and that of Reuben Springer in 1M81, placed in Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. He also made portrait busts of Louis Agassiz (1874), in the museum, Cambridge, Mass.; John G. Whittier (1874), in the libr.ary at Haverhill, Mass., and a replica in the Boston public library ; Charles Sumner (1874), in Bowdoin college; Ulysses S. Grant (1874), in the war department at W\xshington, D.C. ; Emanuel Svvedenborg (1876). and Langd..n Clu-v.-s (1H76), His ideal works include: Maud MiUlcr (1876); busts of Evangeline (1876) and Peasant Girl (1878); Bison and Indian (bronze, 1892), and Romola (1893). His Bison and Indian, which was placed in the Cai)itol groimds at Denvor, Col., was the subject of Whittier's poem '* A Closing Era." ]\Ir. Powers was the originator of the intaglio portrait medal- lions (1896) for which he received from King Humbert of Italy the cross of the Knights of Italy, motu propria.

POWERS, Ridgley Ceylon, governor of Mis- sissii)pi, was born in Mecca, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1836 ; son of Milo and Lucy (Dickenson) Powers ; grand- sou of Jacob and Nancy (Pumfryy) Powers and of Samuel and Elizabeth (Ensign) Dickenson ; and a descendant of the New Jersey branch of the Powers family dating back to Solo- mon Powers of the May- floiver, and of the Dickensons, early settlers in Connecticut. He was educated at Western Reserve seminary, taught school in Illinois, attended the University of Michigan, 1859-62, and was graduated from Union college, A.B., 1862, with highest honors, receiving the 1st Blatchford prize ; A.M., 1865. He studied law, and at the opening of the civil war entered the Federal army ; was promoted captain in the 125th Ohio infantry, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet, and later assistant adjutant-general, 2d division, 4th army corps. At the close of the war he settled in Mississippi ; entered politics, became lieutenant-governor of Mississippi in 1870 and was governor of the state, 1872-74. He lived in Macon, Miss., in 1875, and in 1879 became a resident of Prescott, Ariz. He was married first. May 5, 1875, to Louisa, daughter of Charles P. and Alice Bolin of Cleveland, Ohio ; and secondly, Oct. 27, 1892, to Mary J., daughter of Thomas and Anna (Reid) Wilson of Cleveland, Ohio.

POWERS, Samuel Leiand, representative, was born in Cornish, N.H., Oct. 20, 1848 ; son of Ear- ned and Ruby M. Powers. He attended Kimball Union academy and Phillips Exeter academy, N.H., and was graduated from Dartmouth col- lege, A.B., 1874, receiving the Lock wood prizes for oratory and composition. He taught school in Cape Cod ; studied law in the University of the City of New York, and in the law office of Verry and Gaskell, Worcester, Mass. ; was admitted to the Worcester county bar in November, 1875, and began practice in Boston, Januarj', 1876, sub- sequently acting as the legal representative of the New England Telephone and Telegraph com- pany, 1876. He was a delegate to the Inter- national Treaty convention at Paris in 1878. He was married in June, 1878, to Eva C. Crowell of Dennis, Mass., and in 1882 made his home in Newton, Mass., where he was president of the common council, and member of the school board. In 1886 he .served as chairman of the Republican committee in the ninth congres- sional district ; was Republican representative from the eleventh district to the 57th congress, 1901-03, and was re-elected from the twelfth district in 1902 to the 58th congress, for the term expiring March 3. 1905. He founded a scholarship at Dartmouth, and the Dartmouth Educational