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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.209
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title Henry Y. Bell to Condell Leg Manufacturing Corp.
Date 10 April 1866
Author Bell, Henry Y. (fl. 1866)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description He is interested in the cost of an artificial leg. His leg was amputated below the knee.
Subjects Science and Technology  Finance  Health and Medical  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written Mill Point, Ottawa County, Michigan
Theme Health & Medicine; Science, Technology, Invention; The American Civil War; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Powell was a Lincoln supporter and served as a statistician in the Treasury Department during the Civil War. Active in religious work as a young man, he was the secretary and manager of the Evangelistic Press Association and led a topographical corps through Egypt and North Africa to create Sunday School maps of Palestine and the Holy Land. Powell participated in the American Forestry Commission, the Grange and Patrons of Husbandry, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Geographic Society. He was active in Sabbath reform work.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945