Born April 1830, England. Died Nov 1917, NJ. Son of Barnabus and Mary (Morris) Powell. Occupation: Jeweler. Spent adult life in Newark, NJ. Husband of Sarah F. Father of Harry Emerson Powell. On 28 June 1853 he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the NJ Militia.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...
I've been doing my tree for about 20 years. I'm in the military and live in Georgia. Researching the names Rock, Stephanko, Glowatch, Green, Taylor, Bernhardt, Treadwell, Nolte, and Kimberly. Hope I can be of help to anyone researching the same names.