| 词条 | John Hare Powel |
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|name = John Hare Powel |image = John Hare Powel Eminent Philadelphians 1859.jpg |caption = Portrait of John Hare Powel (1810) by Sir Thomas Lawrence |office = Member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 1st district |term_start = 1827 |term_end = 1830 |predecessor = George Emlen |successor = William Boyd |birth_date = {{birth date|1786|4|22}} |birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |death_date = {{death date and age|1856|6|14|1786|4|22}} |death_place = Newport, Rhode Island |alma_mater = The Academy and College of Philadelphia |party = Federalist }} John Hare Powel (April 22, 1786 – June 14, 1856) was an American agriculturist, politician, art collector and philanthropist from Pennsylvania. Early life and educationHe was born John Powel Hare in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of the six children of Robert and Margaret Willing Hare. As a youth, he was adopted by his mother's widowed and childless sister, Elizabeth Willing Powel.{{sfn|Simpson|1859|pp=808-809}} He legally changed his name when he attained his majority, and inherited the immense fortune of his late uncle, Samuel Powel.[1] He was educated at The Academy and College of Philadelphia and after college joined a counting house. As part of his job in mercantile affairs, he traveled to Calcutta and returned at age 22 with twenty-two thousand dollars as his share of the profit.{{sfn|Simpson|1859|p=808}} CareerHe served as Secretary of the American Legation in London from 1807 to 1811 under William Pinkney who was minister of England.{{sfn|Simpson|1859|p=809}} He returned to the United States in 1811, joined the Pennsylvania militia and served as Brigade-Major under Thomas Cadwalader at Camp Dupont. During the War of 1812, he was Inspector-General of the Pennsylvania militia, and attained the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army.{{sfn|Simpson|1859|p=811}} After the war he devoted himself to agriculture, and did much to improve the breeding of cattle and sheep in the United States. He founded the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society in 1823, and published Memoirs of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society (1824) and Hints for American Farmers (1827). He served as one of the Charter Trustees for Lafayette College from 1826 to 1835.[2] He served as a Federalist member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 1st district from 1827 to 1830.[3][4] The Powels built a massive Greek-Revival mansion and estate in West Philadelphia, overlooking the Schuylkill River. The mansion was named "Powelton" and was designed by the architect William Strickland. In 1851, Powel sold Powelton to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The railroad kept 30 acres along the river and sold the rest for development of residential housing. The mansion was demolished in 1885, and the estate developed as the neighborhood Powelton Village.[5] Powel died in Newport, Rhode Island and is interred at the Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[6] Personal lifeHe married Julia de Veaux of South Carolina in 1817. She was the daughter of Andrew Deveaux.{{sfn|Simpson|1859|p=811}} Together they had nine children with seven who survived to adulthood. John Hare Powel Jr. (1837–1890) served as mayor of Newport, Rhode Island. One of his daughters, Julia De Veaux Powel, married William Parker Foulke. Legacy
Notes1. ^{{cite book |last1=Burt |first1=Nathaniel |title=The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy |date=1963 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |isbn=0-8122-1693-8 |page=159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=john+hare+powel+burt&source=bl&ots=DjUmLlOytI&sig=ZOFai7ladR5KJNruHHc2sBY9gXY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EZoaVb38BszFggSW94OYCg&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=john%20hare%20powel&f=false |accessdate=20 January 2019}} 2. ^1 {{cite book |last1=Skillman |first1=David Bishop |title=The biography of a college; |date=1932 |publisher=The Scribner Press|location=Easton, Pennsylvania |page=304 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033375133;view=1up;seq=398 |accessdate=20 January 2019}} 3. ^{{cite web | last = Cox | first = Harold | title = Senate Members P | publisher = Wilkes University | work = Wilkes University Election Statistics Project| date = | url =http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/SP.html}} 4. ^{{cite web |title=John Hare Powel |url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/bioshistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=4368&body=S |website=www.legis.state.pa.us |accessdate=6 January 2019}} 5. ^1 {{cite journal |last1=Wood |first1=Charles B. |title=Powelton: An Unrecorded Building by William Strickland |journal=Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |date=April 1967 |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=145–163 |url=https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/42255/41976 |accessdate=20 January 2019}} 6. ^{{cite web |title=John Hare Powel |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11324425/john-hare-powel |website=www.findagrave.com |accessdate=20 January 2019}} References
| last = Simpson | first = Henry | year = 1859 | title = The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians, Now Deceased | publisher = Pennsylvania State University Press | ref = harv | url = https://archive.org/stream/livesofeminentph00simp#page/807/mode/2up{{s-start}}{{s-par|us-pa-sen}}{{s-bef|before=George Emlen}}{{s-ttl|title=Member of the Pennsylvania Senate, 1st district|years=1827-1830}}{{s-aft|after=William Boyd}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Powel, John Hare}} 9 : 1786 births|1856 deaths|19th-century American politicians|American agriculturalists|Burials at Christ Church, Philadelphia|Lafayette College trustees|Pennsylvania state senators|People from Pennsylvania in the War of 1812|Politicians from Philadelphia |
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