Robert Powers

POWERS, WHALEN, BRINKMANN

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Date: 8/24/2011 at 15:26:41

History of Jackson County, Iowa, Volume 2, by James Whitcomb Ellis, 1910.
Biographical Sketches

ROBERT POWERS.

The farming interests of Van Buren township find a worthy representative in Robert Powers, who owns and cultivates one hundred acres of land on section 19 and has made it a well improved property. His birth occurred in Clinton county, Iowa, on the 17th of February, 1859, his parents being Richard and Mary (Whalen) Powers. He obtained his education in the schools of his native county and remained on the home farm until twenty-nine years of age, assisting his older brother in its operation. After leaving Clinton county he was engaged in breaking prairie in Sac and Lyon counties for about a year, at the end of which time he returned to the home place.

When a year had passed he came to Fairfield township, Jackson county, to assist his brother, L. Powers, in the management of his several farms. During the last six years of his partnership with his brother he was engaged in business as a horse dealer of Preston. He was married in 1905 and made his home in Preston for a year. It was in the fall of 1905 that he purchased his present farm of one hundred acres on section 19, Van Buren township, where he has since carried on his agricultural interests with excellent success. The fields indicate his careful supervision and practical methods, bringing forth rich crops which are a merited reward for his labor.

In 1905 Mr. Powers was united in marriage to Miss Eva Brinkmann, a native of Clinton county, Iowa, and a daughter of Joseph Brinkmann, an old resident of that county. Politically Mr. Powers is a stanch democrat, having cast his ballot in support of its men and measures since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. Both he and his wife are faithful communicants of the Catholic church at Preston ,and they well merit the regard and esteem which is uniformly accorded them.