John Hare Powel

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John Hare Powel
Pennsylvania Senate for the 1st district
In office
1827–1830
Preceded byGeorge Emlen
Succeeded byWilliam Boyd
Personal details
Born(1786-04-22)April 22, 1786
The Academy and College of Philadelphia

John Hare Powel (April 22, 1786 – June 14, 1856) was an American agriculturist, politician, art collector and philanthropist from Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

He was born John Powel Hare in

Calcutta and returned at age 22 with twenty-two thousand dollars as his share of the profit.[3]

Career

He served as Secretary of the American Legation in London from 1809 to 1811 under William Pinkney who was minister of England.[4]

He returned to the United States in 1811, joined the

Pennsylvania militia and served as Brigade-Major under Thomas Cadwalader at Camp Dupont. During the War of 1812, he was Inspector-General of the Pennsylvania militia, and held the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army, while serving as Inspector-General, from 26 December 1814 to 15 June 1815.[5]

After the war he devoted himself to agriculture, and did much to improve the breeding of cattle and sheep in the United States. He founded the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823, and published Memoirs of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society (1824) and Hints for American Farmers (1827).

He served as one of the Charter Trustees for Lafayette College from 1826 to 1835.[6]

He served as a Federalist member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district from 1827 to 1830.[7][8]

The Powels built a massive

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The railroad kept 30 acres along the river and sold the rest for development of residential housing. The mansion was demolished in 1885, and the estate developed as the neighborhood Powelton Village.[9]

Powel died in Newport, Rhode Island and is interred at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Personal life

He married Julia de Veaux of

9th Rhode Island Infantry during the Civil War, colonel of the Artillery Company of Newport from 1865 to 1877 and mayor of Newport, Rhode Island from 1886 to 1888. One of his daughters, Julia De Veaux Powel, married William Parker Foulke and was the mother of the biologist Sara Gwendolen Foulke.[10][11]

Legacy

Notes

  1. ^ Simpson 1859, pp. 808–809.
  2. ISBN 0-8122-1693-8
    . Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  3. ^ Simpson 1859, p. 808.
  4. ^ Simpson 1859, p. 809.
  5. ^ a b Simpson 1859, p. 811.
  6. ^ a b Skillman, David Bishop (1932). The biography of a college;. Easton, Pennsylvania: The Scribner Press. p. 304. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  7. ^ Cox, Harold. "Senate Members P". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.
  8. ^ "John Hare Powel". www.legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  9. ^ a b Wood, Charles B. (April 1967). "Powelton: An Unrecorded Building by William Strickland". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 91 (2): 145–163. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  10. ISSN 0036-8075
    .
  11. ^ "Sara Gwendolen Foulke". www.familysearch.org. 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-07.

References

Pennsylvania State Senate
Preceded by
George Emlen
 Member of the
Pennsylvania Senate, 1st district

1827-1830 		Succeeded by
William Boyd
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