. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. LO w IT) CO S 1—1 o r-* HH E • r-t !/) S « > <^ S hi^ o C DS u. o rt o p u H I- Z ^ O ?*- OS fa S. U. o <•H O O o THE POWERS LINE Z7 ham, perhaps in Canaan, New York, There is no record ofhis education except that when a lad he went to Catskill, livedwith his uncle John, did chores for his board, and went toschool. This could not have continued very long; for he neverbecame a scholar. About 1837 he went to Perrysburg, Ohio,where his brother
. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. LO w IT) CO S 1—1 o r-* HH E • r-t !/) S « > <^ S hi^ o C DS u. o rt o p u H I- Z ^ O ?*- OS fa S. U. o <•H O O o THE POWERS LINE Z7 ham, perhaps in Canaan, New York, There is no record ofhis education except that when a lad he went to Catskill, livedwith his uncle John, did chores for his board, and went toschool. This could not have continued very long; for he neverbecame a scholar. About 1837 he went to Perrysburg, Ohio,where his brother George, eleven years his elder, had opened astore. For a time he served as an apprentice to a cabinet makerand attained some considerable skill, as is shown by a dresserof his make now owned by George, grandson of Charless broth-er George. About 1839 he went to Woodville, sixteen mileseast of Perrysburg on the Northwestern Ohio Pike, a thorough-fare from Fort Croghan at Fremont to Fort Meigs on theMaumee at Perrysburg, a two hundred foot canal, as it were,through the forest, without a bend. Here he opened a littlestore for general merchandise, helped by his brother Georgeand his uncle John in establishing business relations. From thebeginni
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