Son of Manasseh Powers and Susannah Payne Powers
Brother of Dr. Simeon Power
Pliny Power was a
Representative from Oakland County, Michigan in 1844 and from Wayne County, Michigan in 1855. Pliny was born in Vermont in 1798. He became a physician, practiced for a time in Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved to Oakland County about 1840. He subsequently relocated to Detroit and was county physician there in 1852. He was originally a Democrat but became a Republican in 1854. He was active in the temperance cause, sometimes lecturing on that subject. He died in Detroit in 1861.
Source: Early history of Michigan, with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators. Pub. pursuant to act 59, 1887.
Author: Bingham, S. D. (Stephen D.), p 533
Son of Manasseh Powers and Susannah Payne Powers
Brother of Dr. Simeon Power
Pliny Power was a
Representative from Oakland County, Michigan in 1844 and from Wayne County, Michigan in 1855. Pliny was born in Vermont in 1798. He became a physician, practiced for a time in Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved to Oakland County about 1840. He subsequently relocated to Detroit and was county physician there in 1852. He was originally a Democrat but became a Republican in 1854. He was active in the temperance cause, sometimes lecturing on that subject. He died in Detroit in 1861.
Source: Early history of Michigan, with biographies of state officers, members of Congress, judges and legislators. Pub. pursuant to act 59, 1887.
Author: Bingham, S. D. (Stephen D.), p 533
Inscription
SACRED
to the Memory of
Doct. PLINY POWER
Born
in Westminster, Vermont
Feb. 23, 1793.
Died at Detroit
Sept. 11th 1861
Aged 67 years & 7 months.
Gravesite Details
Names on marker include, William Ambridge, Britannia Gordon Power, Dr. Pliny Power and L. Britannia Gordon Henderson.
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