Biography

06/23/1828 - 04/24/1904

POWELL, Joseph, a Representative of Bradford County; born, June 23, 1828 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pa.; attended, Athens Academy; clerk, general store; coal and lumber merchant; timber farmer; proprietor, tannery; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1851 term; director, Susquehanna Mutual Insurance Co. (1855); president, First National Bank of Towanda (1870-1889); elected, United States Congress (1875-1877); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to Congress (1876); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Treasurer (1883); appointed, deputy collector, Port of Philadelphia (1885-1889); elected, sheriff, Bradford County (1889-1893); director, Towanda Bridge Company; died, April 24, 1904 in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oak Hill Cemetery, Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.