Frederick A. Powers Explained

Frederick Alton Powers (June 19, 1855 in Pittsfield, Maine – February 13, 1923)[1] was Attorney General of Maine from 1893 to 1897 and a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from January 2, 1900 to 1907.[2]

Powers graduated from Maine Central Institute in 1871,[1] and from Bowdoin College in 1875, and read law with his brother Llewellyn in Houlton, Maine.[2]

He served in the Maine State Legislature from 1885 to 1889,[2] and in the Maine State Senate from 1891 to 1892.[1]

Powers owned significant amounts of real estate, such that it was said:

He died in his winter home in Florida.[2]

Family

Powers was the son of Arba Powers and Naomi Matthews Powers. On June 6, 1879, he married May Hussey.[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/907/mode/2up Powers, Frederick Alton
  2. Web site: Frederick Alton Powers, Houlton, ca. 1900.