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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.274
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title Newspaper Cuttings: Geo. May Powell Passes Away; Lincoln's Able Ally is Laid in his Grave; Geo. May Powell; An Active Reform Worker
Date 09 November 1905
Author The Weekly Item (fl. 1905)  
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Obituary of George May Powell
Subjects Death  President  Journalism  Reform Movement  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written Gloucester County, New Jersey
Theme Children & Family; Government & Politics; The American Civil War
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Powell was a Lincoln supporter and served as a statistician in the Treasury Department during the Civil War. Active in religious work as a young man, he was the secretary and manager of the Evangelistic Press Association and led a topographical corps through Egypt and North Africa to create Sunday School maps of Palestine and the Holy Land. Powell participated in the American Forestry Commission, the Grange and Patrons of Husbandry, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Geographic Society. He was active in Sabbath reform work.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945