Joseph Lewis Powers (1823 - 1914)

Born 11 Dec 1823 in Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Janette S. (Byam) Powers — married 30 Dec 1852 in Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa

Died 29 Oct 1914 at age 90 in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States

Biography

Name

Joseph Lewis Powers^[1][2][3]

Note: also known as Dr. Joseph Lewis and Joseph L. Powers M.D.

Birth

Date: 11 DEC 1823

Place: near, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York

Note: Though he is a year younger in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 censuses and some sources say Ohio and Iowa^[4][5][6]

Occupation

A doctor, physician and surgeon^[7][8]

A hired out farm and mill hand, having purchased his time from his father for $150

For two years (aged about 17)^[9][10]

A school teacher, studying and practicing dentistry at odd times

Began his practice as a physician at Central College of Ohio, Blendon, Franklin County, Ohio

Date: Spring 1849

Place: Central College of Ohio, Blendon, Franklin County, Ohio ^[11]

A physician, conducting a medical and surgical hospital in addition to his work as a miner

Date: for 18 months in 1850 and 185

Place: Placerville, El Dorado County, California^[12]

A physician

Date: ABT 1888

Place: Reinbeck, Grundy County, Iowa^[13]

Event

Member

First a Whig, then when founded (1856) the Republican party^[14]

Type: Num Child

Date: 15 APR 1910

Note: 7 children, 5 living^[15]

Education

Now Denison University

Date: in 1844 and 1846

Place: Granville College, Granville, Ohio^[16][17]

Date: 1845

Place: Ashland Academy, Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio^[18][19]

While continuing to teach, devoting his leisure hours to the study of medicine

Date: ABT 1848

Place: Starling Medical College, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio^[20]

Graduation:

Date: 1876

Place: Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa

Note: "which at that time was the medical department of the University of Iowa"^[21]

Immigration

Date: Spring 1850

Place: Hangtown (now Placerville), El Dorado County, California

Note: Travelling for 110 days by team across the plains with a company of gold seekers^[22][23]

Date: 1852

Place: Ashley, Oxford Twp., Delaware County, Ohio

Note: (or Morrow County) starting from Sacramento 15 Dec 1851 with $1800 (or $1550) in gold, the savings of his year and a half, taking the Isthmus route via San Francisco, Acapulco, Cuba and New Orleans, proceeding up the Mississippi to St. Louis, then Ohio, but finding his intended had moved to Iowa he followed her there^[24]

Date: ABT 1864

Place: Homer Twp., Benton County, Iowa

Note: Though Black Hawk Co. Hist. says c.1861, where he resumed the practice of medicine in connection with the development and improvement of his farm^[25][26]

Date: ABT 1867

Place: Irving, Benton or Tama County, Iowa

Note: Where he opened an office and concentrated his energies upon his medical practice^[27]

Date: 1878

Place: Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: Where he resided with his wife until her death in 1904^[28][29]

Census

Date: 03 NOV 1850

Place: Placerville, El Dorado County, California

Note: A physician^[30]

Date: 13 JUN 1860

Place: Peru Twp., Morrow County, Ohio

Note: A farmer^[31]

Date: 29 JUN 1870

Place: East Irving, Benton County, Iowa

Note: A physician^[32]

Date: 04 JUN 1880

Place: Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: A physician^[33]

Date: ABT JAN 1885

Place: Broad Street, Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: A physician^[34]

Date: 01 JAN 1895

Place: Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: A physician^[35]

Date: 1900

Place: Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: A physician^[36]

Note

It's unclear to me how he met his wife. Did he meet Janette through her brother Seth whom he knew in California Did he know her before he went to California, even though the Byams don't appear to have lived in Ohio?

Note: as follows:

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POWERS, Joseph Lewis, of Reinbeck, who has achieved well merited success as a physician, is among the pioneers of Iowa. His father, Lewis Powers, was born in Vermont in 1800. He married Mehetibel Whitehead in 1822, by whom three children were born: Joseph L., Maria and Charles W.,and settled on a farm near Schenectady, New York, removing in 1825 to Erie county. In 1836 he removed by a team to Delaware County, Ohio, but after two years struggle in the new country, returned to New York,where misfortune overtook him in the death of his wife. He afterward located again in Ohio, married Sarah Coltman, of which union two children were born: Mary and John W., and after the death of his wife,married again and settled in Stark County, Indiana, where he died in 1886.

Dr. J. L. Powers was born December 11, 1823, near Schenectady, New York.His early education was limited; being the oldest of three children, he had to devote much of his time to hard work. At the age of sixteen he bought his time for $150 and hired out as a farm and mill hand. After two years he determined to secure a higher education and prepare for a professional career. During vacations, if he could find nothing else to do, he cut wood at twenty-five cents a cord. He attended school at Granville College, Ohio, 1844 and 1846, and Ashland Academy in 1845. In the fall of 1846 he began teaching, which he continued several years,studying and practicing dentistry at odd times, having in view the study of medicine. He attended lectures at Sterling Medical College,Columbus, Ohio, in 1848 and 1849, and commenced practicing at Central College in the spring of 1849. A year later he started by team with a company of gold seekers for California, the journey from the Missouri river to Hangtown, or Placerville, California, occupying one hundred and ten days. He spent eighteen months in California in hospital practice and mining. He left Sacramento December 15, 1851, with $1,550 worth of gold and returned to Ashley, Ohio, stopping on the way at Acapulco,Cuba, and New Orleans. Learning upon his arrival home that his intended had moved west, he came to Iowa and was married December 30, 1852, at Andrew, in Jackson county, to Miss Janette S. Byam, a teacher, and a student in the first institute conducted in Iowa. Her mother, Polly Steel Byam, was the first white child born in Auburn, New York, and her grandfather, Eldad Steel, fought in the Revolution. Soon after this marriage Dr. Powers removed to Morrow County, Ohio, where he purchased and for several years farmed two hundred acres of land. He was twice subject to drafts in the army, in 1862 and 1863, and was elected a second lieutenant of the state militia. At the close of the war he moved with his family to Iowa, settling on a farm in Benton county.After a few years he removed to the town of Irving to practice. In 1875 he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, graduating in February, 1876. He then located at Reinbeck,which is still his home. Alert and progressive as a practitioner, he has kept up with the advance column of his profession. He was appointed local surgeon of the BCRN[Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway], was president of the board of pension examiners at Grundy Center under Harrison's administration, and was re-appointed by President McKinley. He is an active member of the State and the Cedar Valley Medical Societies, and has contributed to the current literature of the medical fraternity.

Dr. Powers has belonged to the republican party since its organization in 1856, and before that time was a Whig. He and his family are members of the Methodist church. Dr. and Mrs. Powers have five children: Julia C., born in 1856, now Mrs. J. H. Welch, who was for several years matron of Indian schools in Montana, her husband being superintendent, now resides at Belle Plaine, Iowa; Emma A., born in 1858, is now the wife of Hon. S. H. Cranmer, a prominent lawyer of South Dakota and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1885. Mrs. Cranmer served several years as president of the South Dakota WCTU [Woman's Christian Temperence Union], and is now a lecturer for the national organization. The third daughter, Laura B., born in 1865, now Mrs. Cottrell, resides at Reinbeck. She taught several years in the Montana Indian schools. Fred W. was born in 1868 and is a graduate of the State university. He practices medicine with his father. Leland E. was born in 1871 and is a partner and cashier in the bank of Rowan.

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Note: in History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and Its People:

[LIND:]

JOSEPH LEWIS POWERS, M. D.

Dr. Joseph Lewis Powers, one of the most venerable citizens of Iowa,passed away in Waterloo on the 29th of October, 1914, when in the ninety-first year of his age, but his memory remains as a benediction and an inspiration to all with whom he came in contact, so high were his principles, so exalted his ideals, so generous, kindly and helpful his acts. He was born near Schenectady, New York, December 11, 1823, his parents being Lewis and Mehitable (Whitehead) Powers, natives of Vermont. He was three years of age when his parents removed to Newstead, New York, and was a youth of eleven years at the time of their emigration westward to Ohio in 1835. At the age of seventeen years he purchased his time from his father and through the following two years worked upon the farm.

Not content with the educational opportunities he had thus far received,he attended the schools of Ashland, Ohio, and also Granville College,and subsequently he took up the profession of teaching. While thus engaged he devoted his leisure hours to the study of medicine and in further preparation for practice he attended the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, in the years 1847 and 1848. He afterward began the practice of medicine at Blendon, near Columbus, and in 1850, attracted by the discovery of gold in California, he made the long journey across the plains to the Pacific coast, where he arrived after traveling for one hundred and ten days. During the succeeding year and a half he conducted a medical and surgical hospital in addition to his work as a miner. He then decided to return to his Ohio home and startedeastward with eighteen hundred dollars in gold, the savings of his year and a half. He returned by way of San Francisco and the Isthmus route to New Orleans, proceeded up the Mississippi to St. Louis and thence made his way to Morrow county, Ohio, where he invested in two hundred acres of land. He then rented his farm and afterward started on a three hundred mile horseback ride to the home of his affianced wife, Jannette S. Byam, who was then living in Iowa. They were married at Andrew, this state, on the 30th of December, 1852, and immediately returned to Ohio to begin their domestic life in a new log house which had been erected on the farm. They occupied that place for seven years and there their older children were born. At the end of that time they removed westward to Iowa, settling in Homer township, Benton county, where Dr. Powers resumed the practice of medicine in connection with the development and improvement of his farm. There he lived for seven years, after which he went to Irving, Iowa, and opened an office, concentrating his energies upon his practice. In 1876 he was graduated from the Keokuk Medical College, which at that time was the medical department of the University of Iowa. In 1878 he removed to Reinbeck, where he followed his profession for many years, but after the death of his wife he retired from active practice and spent his last years with his children.

Dr. Powers had two sons and three daughters: Dr. F. W. and L. E. Powers,both of Waterloo; Mrs. J. H. Welch, of Belle Plaine; Mrs. S. H. Cranmer,of Minneapolis; and Mrs. J. A. Webb, of Waterloo, at whose home he was staying when death called him. Dr. Powers was a man of strong Christian faith and spirit. He thought little of himself or his own interests but devoted his life to service for his family and for the uplift o fhumanity. When forty-five years of age he joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Irving and from that time forward was a very active church worker, making his religion a part of his everyday existence and not merely a matter of Sunday observance. On removing to Reinbeck he became a charter member of the Methodist Episcopal church of that place and he ever endeavored to make his life the expression of his Christian belief and of the teachings of Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minister.

That his life broadened in its outlook, in its perceptions and in its purposes is indicated by excerpts from letters which he wrote or from things that he said. At the time of the celebration of his silver wedding anniversary, in responding to the felicitations and best wishes of the friends that had gathered, in addressing his wife upon the part which she had filled so faithfully, he said, among other things, "As we enter another quarter of a century in the great race of life, if we fail to reach the golden anniversary of our wedded life, may we with these friends receive a rich and abiding crown in the Great Beyond." Twenty years later, upon reaching his seventy-fifth birthday, in writing a letter to one of his daughters, he said: "As we stand at the open door of the unwritten future with responsibilities pressing hard for a satisfactory solution, our riper experience would dictate that duty performed may bring responsibility, but never failure nor dishonor. Live on the bright side of life, pressing hard to the right, that honest thought, abiding purpose and Christian living shall be an inspiration as we make toward the other shore. Five years later, at the age of eighty, on the occasion of the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of his wedded life, in responding to the greeting sof friends, he said:"There are times when sentiment lingers at the threshold of thought and the tongue falters; and we are almost mute in attempting to put into words, at such a time as this, a proper appreciation of abiding confidence and friendship. Pleasant memories remind us that twenty-five years ago a number of this company called upon us and left tokens of good-will on the occasion of our silver wedding. At that time we thought we were nearing Pisgah's height of human life; but tonight as memory sweeps over a quarter of a century,the flashlight of experience and duty reminds us that we were then only in the foothills of life's mission. As I stand in the twilight in the coveted height of four score years and view the plain below, I am reminded that the heart treasures are the brightest pictures hanging on the walls of memory, and richest fruitage is gathered from friendship's altar. Standing at the open door of the unknown future and scanning the horizon of human life, I am glad that, amid all its failures, life is not all a dream, but is big with possibilities and hope. We must remember that it is individual purpose and effort , leaning hard to the right that gives coloring to character and makes history worthy of a place on the tablet of memory." Later, at the age of eighty-seven, he took some pleasure in composing a poem of eight verses on 'The Voyage of Life,'which he has left to the family in his own handwriting. One of the verses reads as follows :

Shadows may o'ertake you, on the way,

And thus you wander, may go astray,

Bethlehem's star, a light for thee,

To brighten hope, a guide at sea.'

The year following the death of his wife he wrote: "I am floating on the current of time, and in the passing of my eighty-eighth birthday, I am abiding my time for the call to come up higher." Upon the celebration of his ninetieth birthday, which was held December 11, 1913, upon which occasion many friends called and extended their best wishes for his future health and happiness, he said, among other things worthy of repetition: "Self is a mighty poor master; self is the worst devil to contend with. My advice to the young is first, honesty, and a high regard for Christianity, for their own betterment and the betterment of society."

At all times Dr. Powers held to the highest ideals and constantly put forth effort for their adoption. The consensus of public opinion is that his was a most earnest and consistent Christian character. His presence as much as his professional aid constituted a stimulus and a blessing in the sick room. He held friendship inviolable; he was loyal to every duty and certainly the world is better for his having lived.He came to an honored old age with few pages in his life record that he might wish to erase; on the contrary his history is one which should serve to inspire and encourage others, as it points out the value of character, of noble living and of honorable purpose.

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Residence

Date: Bet 1853 and 1864

Place: Sec. 3, Twp. 6, Range 17, Peru Twp., Morrow County, Ohio

Note: On their 200 acre farm in a new log house^[39][40]

Date: After the death of his wife

Note: He retired from active practice and lived with his children^[41]

Religion

Joined "the Methodist Episcopal church" becoming "a very active church worker, making his religion a part of his everyday existence and not merely a matter of Sunday observance, a man of strong Christian faith and spirit," who "thought little of himself or his own interests but devoted his life to service for his family and for the uplift of humanity"

Date: 1868

Place: Irving, Benton or Tama County, Iowa^[42][43]

Where he was "a charter member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he ever endeavored to make his life the expression of his Christian belief and of the teachings of Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minister"

Date: Abt 1879

Place: Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa^[44]

A Methodist

Date: 1895^[45]

Marriage

Husband: Joseph Lewis Powers

Wife: Janette S. Byam

Date: 30 DEC 1852

Place: Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa

Note: Though some sources say Andover, Clinton County, Iowa and Ohio, renting his farm and riding three hundred miles on horseback to the home of his fiancé in Iowa^{[46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]}

Husband: Lewis Powers

Wife: Mehitable Whitehead

Child: Joseph Lewis Powers

Child: Clarissa Maria Powers

Child: Charles Willard Powers

Date: 1822

Place: New York^{[59][60][61][62]}

Death

Date: 29 OCT 1914

Place: The home of his daughter, Julia C. Webb, 1220 Washington Street, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa

Note: at 9:30 a.m. aged 90 years, 10 months, and 18 days of acute intestinal infection and apoplexy^{[63][64][65][66][67][68]}

Burial

Place: Reinbeck Cemetery, northwest of the center road and the 1st north-south road, Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp., Grundy County, Iowa

Note: where the inscription reads:

1823 Dr. J. L. Powers 1914

Aged 90 Yrs. 10 Mos. 18 Dys.

1831 Janette S. 1904

Wife of J. L. Powers

Aged 73 Yrs. 1 Mo. 6 Dys.

The undertaker was E. F. Kistner, Waterloo, Iowa ^[69][70][71]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S117 Descendants of George Byam; Page: 51-52 and 111, "Oliver Hale Byam" and "Jeanette S. Byam"
2. ↑ Source: #S118 History of Black Hawk County, Iowa and its People, Page: 211-213
3. ↑ Source: #S11258 Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive Men of Iowa 2:370-372, Joseph Lewis Powers
4. ↑ Source: #S489 1830 U.S. Federal Census, 50 (Amherst), Lewis Bowers household
5. ↑ Source: #S1262 Iowa Death Registers 1880-1935
6. ↑ Source: #S1277 Reinbeck Cemetery (Grundy County, Iowa)
7. ↑ Source: #S110 Interview with Gwendolyn Fay Nesbit Atwater
8. ↑ Source: #S119
9. ↑ Source: #S118
10. ↑ Source: #S11258
11. ↑ Source: #S11258
12. ↑ Source: #S503 1850 U.S. Federal Census Page: 298 (Placerville and its vicinity), Joseph L. Powers household
13. ↑ Source: #S11258
14. ↑ Source: #S11258
15. ↑ Source: #S3576 Iowa 1910 U.S. Federal Census, SD 3, ED 13, 8/8B (Waterloo Twp., Waterloo 1st Ward), dwelling 186,family 190, John A. Webb household
16. ↑ Source: #S11258
17. ↑ Source: #S118
18. ↑ Source: #S118
19. ↑ Source: #S11258
20. ↑ Source: #S118
21. ↑ Source: #S118
22. ↑ Source: #S118
23. ↑ Source: #S11258
24. ↑ Source: #S118
25. ↑ Source: #S118
26. ↑ Source: #S11258
27. ↑ Source: #S118
28. ↑ Source: #S118
29. ↑ Source: #S1265 Waterloo Courier 20 Aug 1918, 7, col. 5, L. E. Powers obituary
30. ↑ Source: #S503
31. ↑ Source: #S1235 1860 U.S. Federal Census
32. ↑ Source: #S589 Iowa 1870 U.S. Federal Census 1/160A (East Irving), dwelling 4, family 4, J. L. Powers household
33. ↑ Source: #S1236 Iowa 1880 U.S. Federal Census SD 2, ED 226, 7/370A (Reinbeck), dwelling 65, family 69, J. L. Powers household
34. ↑ Source: #S1249 Iowa 1885 State Census Page: 90 (Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp.), dwelling 140, family 148, Joseph L.Powers household
35. ↑ Source: #S1250 Iowa 1895 State Census Page: 13/71 (Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp.), dwelling 85, family 86, Joseph L.Powers household
36. ↑ Source: #S614 1900 U.S. Federal Census, SD 5, ED 38, 7/208B, (Reinbeck town, Blackhawk Twp.), dwelling 154,family 156, Joseph L. Powers household
37. ↑ Source: #S11258
38. ↑ Source: #S118 Page: 211-213
39. ↑ Source: #S118
40. ↑ Source: #S11258
41. ↑ Source: #S118
42. ↑ Source: #S118
43. ↑ Source: #S11258
44. ↑ Source: #S118
45. ↑ Source: #S1250 Page: 13/71 (Reinbeck, Black Hawk Twp.), dwelling 85, family 86, Joseph L.Powers household
46. ↑ Source: #S117
47. ↑ Source: #S118
48. ↑ Source: #S1235
49. ↑ Source: #S589
50. ↑ Source: #S614
51. ↑ Source: #S1236
52. ↑ Source: #S1249
53. ↑ Source: #S1250
54. ↑ Source: #S1254
55. ↑ Source: #S1277
56. ↑ Source: #S11257
57. ↑ Source: #S11258
58. ↑ Source: #S11263
59. ↑ Source: #S83 Page: 24:41
60. ↑ Source: #S117
61. ↑ Source: #S10529 Wills 11:12, Samuel Hills will and probate
62. ↑ Source: #S11258 Page: 2:370-372, Joseph Lewis Powers
63. ↑ Source: #S117"
64. ↑ Source: #S118
65. ↑ Source: #S119
66. ↑ Source: #S1262 Iowa Death Registers 1880-1935 Page: 3:320, #153/6794, Joseph Lewis Powers, 29 Oct 1914
67. ↑ Source: #S1277
68. ↑ Source: #S11257 Page: to Kimball G. Everingham
69. ↑ Source: #S119
70. ↑ Source: #S1262
71. ↑ Source: #S1277 Dr. J. L. and Janette S. Powers gravestone

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• Source: S11257 Correspondence from James H. Powers, Author
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