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Collection Reference Number GLC00687.249
From Archive Folder Papers of George May Powell 
Title Statements of account to Evangelical Press Association
Date 10 January 1874
Author Hampshire Paper Company  
Document Type Business and financial document
Content Description They send statements of account by Mr. Powell.
Subjects Christianity  Religion  Business and Finance  Journalism  
People Powell, George May (1835-1905)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme Religion; 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