Father: John L. Powell
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115789
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 25, 1871
Inscription: age 91 yrs 5 mos 25 dys
Mother: Margaret Hulbert
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115794
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul. 7, 1871
Inscription: wife of John E. Powell, age 84 yrs 9 mos 7 dys
The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, January 7, 1914
Joseph Priestly Powell, the well-known pioneer resident of Ronald, died at 5:45 Wednesday a.m., after a severe illness of several weeks. He was born in Oneida county, N.Y., February 28, 1821, and would have been 83 years old next month.
His father was prominent in the colony of Massachusetts, having had the advantage of some college training, and being possessed of the honorable characteristics that made him an arbitrator and counselor in the colony. He served as an officer in the war of 1812, but his life occupation was farming.
Joseph P. was the tenth in a family of thirteen children, and had the rather unusual advantage of an academical education, and at the early age of 16 commenced teaching school winters, working on the home farm summers.
On reaching his majority, he left home and came to Michigan, going first to Calhoun county, where he had a sister living and where he taught school for one year. He then returned to New York and taught one year, and then went to Illinois for one year. From there he came to Ionia county, locating on the farm of 160 acres in Ronald, which was still a part of the homestead farm at the time of his death. This was in 1845, and he was 24 years old. He taught school in Ronald, and was one of the first, perhaps the very first teacher, in the fine new Union school building in Ionia village which is now occupied as a city hall and by fire department.
He was married November 11, 1846 to Miss Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Chauncey Goodwin, who survives him. Seven children were born to them, all of whom survive; Fannie, wife of Wm. E. Normington, of Ronald; Rev. Henry W., who was obliged to retire from the ministry on account of a serious throat trouble, and is now engaged in farming in Ronald; Mary, unmarried, who has remained with her parents; Ella M., wife of W. G. Barnes of Shelbyville, Indiana, who has been at the Ronald homestead during illness of the father; Horace H., a farmer near Carson City; Rev. Herman J., whose charge is at Albuquerque, New Mexico and Herbert E., present representative in state legislature, who is also a Ronald farmer.
Decedent was remarkably successful in a business way, accumulating a handsome competence, through industry and frugality. What is most remarkable—what makes his personality so peculiar as to be almost unique in the history of frugal money accumulators—is that while his business transactions in the way of loans on mortgages were surpassed in magnitude by only one or two men in the county, he was never known to put any debtor in distress, never had any serious personal difficulty in all the thousands of cases where he had important business transactions with men of all kinds, and never, so far as known, had a suit in court. The parallel of such a life record will be hard to find.
No man ever had ought to say, so far as known, against the purity of life, integrity of motive, or practical sympathy for the unfortunate, of Joseph P. Powell. The vices and the meannesse's that so often accompany wealth did not belong to him. He must have lost thousands of dollars in poor debts, but he made no whimper. He had the universal respect and confidence of the community. He was of the very highest type of the Yankee pioneer, which is so fast passing away forever.
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115789
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 25, 1871
Inscription: age 91 yrs 5 mos 25 dys
Mother: Margaret Hulbert
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115794
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul. 7, 1871
Inscription: wife of John E. Powell, age 84 yrs 9 mos 7 dys
The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, January 7, 1914
Joseph Priestly Powell, the well-known pioneer resident of Ronald, died at 5:45 Wednesday a.m., after a severe illness of several weeks. He was born in Oneida county, N.Y., February 28, 1821, and would have been 83 years old next month.
His father was prominent in the colony of Massachusetts, having had the advantage of some college training, and being possessed of the honorable characteristics that made him an arbitrator and counselor in the colony. He served as an officer in the war of 1812, but his life occupation was farming.
Joseph P. was the tenth in a family of thirteen children, and had the rather unusual advantage of an academical education, and at the early age of 16 commenced teaching school winters, working on the home farm summers.
On reaching his majority, he left home and came to Michigan, going first to Calhoun county, where he had a sister living and where he taught school for one year. He then returned to New York and taught one year, and then went to Illinois for one year. From there he came to Ionia county, locating on the farm of 160 acres in Ronald, which was still a part of the homestead farm at the time of his death. This was in 1845, and he was 24 years old. He taught school in Ronald, and was one of the first, perhaps the very first teacher, in the fine new Union school building in Ionia village which is now occupied as a city hall and by fire department.
He was married November 11, 1846 to Miss Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Chauncey Goodwin, who survives him. Seven children were born to them, all of whom survive; Fannie, wife of Wm. E. Normington, of Ronald; Rev. Henry W., who was obliged to retire from the ministry on account of a serious throat trouble, and is now engaged in farming in Ronald; Mary, unmarried, who has remained with her parents; Ella M., wife of W. G. Barnes of Shelbyville, Indiana, who has been at the Ronald homestead during illness of the father; Horace H., a farmer near Carson City; Rev. Herman J., whose charge is at Albuquerque, New Mexico and Herbert E., present representative in state legislature, who is also a Ronald farmer.
Decedent was remarkably successful in a business way, accumulating a handsome competence, through industry and frugality. What is most remarkable—what makes his personality so peculiar as to be almost unique in the history of frugal money accumulators—is that while his business transactions in the way of loans on mortgages were surpassed in magnitude by only one or two men in the county, he was never known to put any debtor in distress, never had any serious personal difficulty in all the thousands of cases where he had important business transactions with men of all kinds, and never, so far as known, had a suit in court. The parallel of such a life record will be hard to find.
No man ever had ought to say, so far as known, against the purity of life, integrity of motive, or practical sympathy for the unfortunate, of Joseph P. Powell. The vices and the meannesse's that so often accompany wealth did not belong to him. He must have lost thousands of dollars in poor debts, but he made no whimper. He had the universal respect and confidence of the community. He was of the very highest type of the Yankee pioneer, which is so fast passing away forever.
Father: John L. Powell
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115789
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 25, 1871
Inscription: age 91 yrs 5 mos 25 dys
Mother: Margaret Hulbert
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115794
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul. 7, 1871
Inscription: wife of John E. Powell, age 84 yrs 9 mos 7 dys
The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, January 7, 1914
Joseph Priestly Powell, the well-known pioneer resident of Ronald, died at 5:45 Wednesday a.m., after a severe illness of several weeks. He was born in Oneida county, N.Y., February 28, 1821, and would have been 83 years old next month.
His father was prominent in the colony of Massachusetts, having had the advantage of some college training, and being possessed of the honorable characteristics that made him an arbitrator and counselor in the colony. He served as an officer in the war of 1812, but his life occupation was farming.
Joseph P. was the tenth in a family of thirteen children, and had the rather unusual advantage of an academical education, and at the early age of 16 commenced teaching school winters, working on the home farm summers.
On reaching his majority, he left home and came to Michigan, going first to Calhoun county, where he had a sister living and where he taught school for one year. He then returned to New York and taught one year, and then went to Illinois for one year. From there he came to Ionia county, locating on the farm of 160 acres in Ronald, which was still a part of the homestead farm at the time of his death. This was in 1845, and he was 24 years old. He taught school in Ronald, and was one of the first, perhaps the very first teacher, in the fine new Union school building in Ionia village which is now occupied as a city hall and by fire department.
He was married November 11, 1846 to Miss Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Chauncey Goodwin, who survives him. Seven children were born to them, all of whom survive; Fannie, wife of Wm. E. Normington, of Ronald; Rev. Henry W., who was obliged to retire from the ministry on account of a serious throat trouble, and is now engaged in farming in Ronald; Mary, unmarried, who has remained with her parents; Ella M., wife of W. G. Barnes of Shelbyville, Indiana, who has been at the Ronald homestead during illness of the father; Horace H., a farmer near Carson City; Rev. Herman J., whose charge is at Albuquerque, New Mexico and Herbert E., present representative in state legislature, who is also a Ronald farmer.
Decedent was remarkably successful in a business way, accumulating a handsome competence, through industry and frugality. What is most remarkable—what makes his personality so peculiar as to be almost unique in the history of frugal money accumulators—is that while his business transactions in the way of loans on mortgages were surpassed in magnitude by only one or two men in the county, he was never known to put any debtor in distress, never had any serious personal difficulty in all the thousands of cases where he had important business transactions with men of all kinds, and never, so far as known, had a suit in court. The parallel of such a life record will be hard to find.
No man ever had ought to say, so far as known, against the purity of life, integrity of motive, or practical sympathy for the unfortunate, of Joseph P. Powell. The vices and the meannesse's that so often accompany wealth did not belong to him. He must have lost thousands of dollars in poor debts, but he made no whimper. He had the universal respect and confidence of the community. He was of the very highest type of the Yankee pioneer, which is so fast passing away forever.
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115789
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 25, 1871
Inscription: age 91 yrs 5 mos 25 dys
Mother: Margaret Hulbert
Find A Grave Memorial# 20115794
Birth: unknown
Death: Jul. 7, 1871
Inscription: wife of John E. Powell, age 84 yrs 9 mos 7 dys
The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, January 7, 1914
Joseph Priestly Powell, the well-known pioneer resident of Ronald, died at 5:45 Wednesday a.m., after a severe illness of several weeks. He was born in Oneida county, N.Y., February 28, 1821, and would have been 83 years old next month.
His father was prominent in the colony of Massachusetts, having had the advantage of some college training, and being possessed of the honorable characteristics that made him an arbitrator and counselor in the colony. He served as an officer in the war of 1812, but his life occupation was farming.
Joseph P. was the tenth in a family of thirteen children, and had the rather unusual advantage of an academical education, and at the early age of 16 commenced teaching school winters, working on the home farm summers.
On reaching his majority, he left home and came to Michigan, going first to Calhoun county, where he had a sister living and where he taught school for one year. He then returned to New York and taught one year, and then went to Illinois for one year. From there he came to Ionia county, locating on the farm of 160 acres in Ronald, which was still a part of the homestead farm at the time of his death. This was in 1845, and he was 24 years old. He taught school in Ronald, and was one of the first, perhaps the very first teacher, in the fine new Union school building in Ionia village which is now occupied as a city hall and by fire department.
He was married November 11, 1846 to Miss Ruth Goodwin, daughter of Chauncey Goodwin, who survives him. Seven children were born to them, all of whom survive; Fannie, wife of Wm. E. Normington, of Ronald; Rev. Henry W., who was obliged to retire from the ministry on account of a serious throat trouble, and is now engaged in farming in Ronald; Mary, unmarried, who has remained with her parents; Ella M., wife of W. G. Barnes of Shelbyville, Indiana, who has been at the Ronald homestead during illness of the father; Horace H., a farmer near Carson City; Rev. Herman J., whose charge is at Albuquerque, New Mexico and Herbert E., present representative in state legislature, who is also a Ronald farmer.
Decedent was remarkably successful in a business way, accumulating a handsome competence, through industry and frugality. What is most remarkable—what makes his personality so peculiar as to be almost unique in the history of frugal money accumulators—is that while his business transactions in the way of loans on mortgages were surpassed in magnitude by only one or two men in the county, he was never known to put any debtor in distress, never had any serious personal difficulty in all the thousands of cases where he had important business transactions with men of all kinds, and never, so far as known, had a suit in court. The parallel of such a life record will be hard to find.
No man ever had ought to say, so far as known, against the purity of life, integrity of motive, or practical sympathy for the unfortunate, of Joseph P. Powell. The vices and the meannesse's that so often accompany wealth did not belong to him. He must have lost thousands of dollars in poor debts, but he made no whimper. He had the universal respect and confidence of the community. He was of the very highest type of the Yankee pioneer, which is so fast passing away forever.
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