When William J. Powell was born on 15 January 1874, in Coos, New Hampshire, United States, his father, John Powell, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Barden Banken Barlow, was 37. He married Lavonne May Chase about 1900, in Upton, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 17 November 1908, in Upton, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Upton, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
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