When Dr. Perley Andrews Powers DDS was born on 18 October 1857, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Harvey Alphonso Powers, was 40 and his mother, Sarah Adeline Colburn, was 37. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Sarah Andrews. He lived in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1880 and Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America in 1900. He died on 8 December 1941, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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English (Warwickshire and Lancashire): variant of Power , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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