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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00687.267 Author/Creator: McCarn, D. Place Written: Anamosa, Iowa Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 17 May 1892 Pagination: 2 p. ; 24.1 x 15.2 cm. Order a Copy

He has offered Letia a permanent home with them and is welcome to anything they have, including business advise. Samuel had written him that he had sufficient means to support Letia, but he didn't know what means. Letia should obtain a temporary loan until the disposition is made of their personal property.

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.

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

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