Powell, Israel A.

Born: 1825-08-25 Kentucky

Died: 1905-05-01 Homer, Illinois

Flourished: Lawrence County, Illinois

Israel A. Powell was a physician and a Republican. While still a child, he relocated with his family to Gibson County, Indiana. In 1843, he moved to Lawrence County, Illinois. There he studied and began practicing medicine. In December 1847, he married Adeline Bodollet, with whom he had at least two children before she died in 1856. In January 1859, he married Parmelia Riley. He served as one of Lawrence County's delegates to both the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention and the 1860 Illinois Republican Convention. In 1858, he also ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. By 1860, he owned real and personal property valued at $7,000. He helped organize the first medical society in the Wabash Valley, and practiced medicine for more than forty years. He died at his home after a period of illness.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Lawrence County, 16 December 1847; 25 January 1859, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Lawrence County, IL, 72; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 17 June 1858, 2:3; 3 November 1858, 2:2; Illinois Daily State Journal (Springfield), 16 April 1860, 1:2; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, IL, 135; Louis L. Emmerson, ed., Blue Book of the State of Illinois, 1919-1920 (Springfield: Illinois State Journal, 1919), 541; “Deaths,” The Journal of the American Medical Association 44 (May 1905), 1549; The Daily Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL), 2 May 1905, 10:4; Gravestone, GAR Cemetery, Homer, IL.