Biographical Sketch of Orlando Powers
ORLANDO POWERS, son of Capt. Peter Powers, and on the mother’s side descended from Dea. John Cooper, was born May 5, 1810. He was educated mainly at the district school. At eighteen he was apprenticed as clerk to Hiram Smart–then only merchant of Croydon-where he remained until April, 1832, when he removed to Cornish Flat-where […]