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at age 74
in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States
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Sgt Gorham Powers served in the United States Civil War. Enlisted: Feb 13, 1862 Mustered out: May 15, 1865 Side: USA Regiment(s): Maine 4th Light Artillery Battery
Gorham Powers is Notable.
Biography
Son of Arbra Powers and Naomi Mathews, m. 7 Nov 1865, Abbie M Ireland; lawyer at Granite Falls, Minn. Gorham enlisted in the Maine 4th Light Artillery Battery. He was wounded. A graduate of Brown University and Union University of New York. Judge, 12th Judicial District, Minnesota. Minnesota Senator in 1879.
1880 United States Federal Census for Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota:
Gorham Powers 39
Addie M. Powers 36
Minnie Powers 7
Mantie Powers 6
Edward E. Powers 4
Burial Granite Falls City Cemetery • Chippewa County, Minnesota
Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Gorham Powers photo 21:42, 24 November 2017 (EST)
The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: General Index to Civil War and Later Pension Files, ca. 1949 - ca. 1949; NAI Number: 563268; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; Series Number: T288; Roll: 378. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 for Gorham Powers 21:42, 24 November 2017 (EST)
Ancestry.com. U.S., Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. U.S., Adjutant General Military Records, 1631-1976 21:42, 24 November 2017 (EST)
"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M669-44Z : 12 April 2016), Fred A Powers in household of Arba Powers, Maine, United States; citing p. 29, family 235, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,058. 19:38, 24 November 2017 (EST)
Year: 1880; Census Place: Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota; Roll: 638; Family History Film: 1254638; Page: 525B; Enumeration District: 293. 1880 United States Federal Census for Gorham Powers 21:17, 24 November 2017 (EST)
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