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Dr Robert Henry Power

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Dr Robert Henry Power

Birth
York County, Virginia, USA
Death
24 Feb 1897 (aged 73)
Newport News City, Virginia, USA
Burial
Grafton, York County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Robert H. Power was the son of Dr. Frederick Bryan Power and Lucy Brown.
1845 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA [from VA]
05/16/1848 - Married, Abigail "Abbie" Minerva Jencks, Lu Ryter, Madison Co, NY
1850 - Practiced medicine, York Co, VA
1853-54 - Member, General Assembly of Virginia from Elizabeth City Co, Warwick Co & York Co, VA
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 115th VA Militia
11/00/1861 - Detailed to treat Confederate forces on the Virginia peninsula
1865-66 & 1866-67 - Member, Virginia State Senate
1870 - Practiced medicine, Grafton, York Co, VA
1874, 1880, 1886 - Practiced medicine, Yorktown, VA
1890, 1893 - Practiced medicine, Newport News, VA
- Served as Presiding Magistrate of York
- Served as an elder, Grafton Christian Ch., Yorktown, VA
02/24/1897 - Died, Newport News, VA, of "nervous prostration"

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/26/2011. Unpublished database.
Dr. Robert H. Power was the son of Dr. Frederick Bryan Power and Lucy Brown.
1845 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA [from VA]
05/16/1848 - Married, Abigail "Abbie" Minerva Jencks, Lu Ryter, Madison Co, NY
1850 - Practiced medicine, York Co, VA
1853-54 - Member, General Assembly of Virginia from Elizabeth City Co, Warwick Co & York Co, VA
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 115th VA Militia
11/00/1861 - Detailed to treat Confederate forces on the Virginia peninsula
1865-66 & 1866-67 - Member, Virginia State Senate
1870 - Practiced medicine, Grafton, York Co, VA
1874, 1880, 1886 - Practiced medicine, Yorktown, VA
1890, 1893 - Practiced medicine, Newport News, VA
- Served as Presiding Magistrate of York
- Served as an elder, Grafton Christian Ch., Yorktown, VA
02/24/1897 - Died, Newport News, VA, of "nervous prostration"

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/26/2011. Unpublished database.


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