H/o Emily Ewer, S/o Shotwell & Sarah POWELL

History of Ontario Co, NY, Conover & Aldrich, pub 1893, pg 143

POWELL, Thomas J., Naples, oldest son of Shotwell and Sarah G. POWELL, was born July 23, 1837, in the town of Clinton, Dutchess county. He, with his parents, moved to South Bristol, Ontario county, in 1844. His education was obtained mostly at the district school and at home. He taught several terms, four in his own district, and did surveying occasionally for a few years, but quit soon after he settled on the farm. He enlisted to help put down the Rebellion, but was discharged after six months' service; was soon after drafted, but rejected on account of disability. March 26, 1864, he and Emily EWER, oldest daughter of Isaac G. and Lydia Ann EWER of Mendon Center, Monroe county, were married. They established their home on a farm in the adjoining town of Naples soon after their marriage, where they have since lived. They have had two children: Albert I., who is now married and lives with them; and Isaac S., who died September 24, 1892, soon after he had graduated, loved and respected by a large circle of friends. Mr. POWELL has prospered as a farmer and has obtained several patents on hay cars, one of which especially has had a wide sale. He is much interested in various reforms, particularly Prohibition, and has been for many years an active Prohibitionist, being the candidate of the party in 1877 for member of assembly for Ontario county, since which he has been elected a delegate to the State Convention and nominated for town and county offices several times by the party. He has been a vegetarian for some 25 years, not using even tea or coffee, and with Mrs. POWELL it has been almost the same. In their over 29 years of married life they have enjoyed excellent health and no physician to doctor them or their children, except when the one died. His wife has been a faithful and able helper to him, cordially co-operating in temperance and other reform work. They are birthright members of the Society of Friends.