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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.225
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title James S. Burrill to George May Powell about expanding artificial limb business into Georgia
Date 7 May 1866
Author Burrill, James S. (fl. 1866)  
Recipient Powell, George May  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Now is the time for the company to act if they want to work in Georgia. If the company will pay his expenses, he will go and work out the same kind of contract they have in Tennessee, selling legs and arms for $125 from state factories
Subjects Industry  Business and Finance  Health and Medical  Science and Technology  Contract  Injury or Wound  Reconstruction  Government and Civics  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written Nashville, Tennessee
Theme Health & Medicine; Science, Technology, Invention; Merchants & Commerce; Industry
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