Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-22

Mr.. William III. Powell, a native o
Accomac, but for the last 81 years {
resident of Baltimore. and for a score
OF years or more one OF the leading
business men OF that city, died sud
denly on the morning OF the l7tt
inst, at Chattolanee Hotel, Greer
Spring Valley, where he had beer
spending the summer The news Of
his death was received with sincere
sorrow by many friends at hi'
old home. The following notice OF
him is furnished by Baltimore cor
respondent:
Mr.. Powell was a self-made man
born August 10th, 1910, in Accomac
county, Eastern Shore OF Virginia
where he spent his boyhood days, re-
ceiving a public school education.
During the days OF carly manhood
he clerked in the country store Of his
brother, but his thirst for knowledge
and his desire to seek larger oppor-
tunities made him look for new
field. At the age OF twenty-three he
came to this city, poor young man
rich however In every qualification
necessary to make him the prosper
GUS business man he WAS. After
clerkipg for one year In Wholesale
house, he and the late Samuel E.
Egerton formed the firm OF Samuel
E. Egerton & Company in the year
1864. continuing the same until the
year 1879, when he bought out the
firm and established the present well
known and most successful house Of
William M. Powell & Company, of
which he was the senior member.
Mr.. Powell possessed rare business
qualifications and the mercantile
trade generally looked upon him as
one of authority, for his advice was
often sought by many who knew and
the valus OF his sound
judgment. He was generous to a
fault and those who knew him best
say his lifelong policy was to be fair
and just in all his dealings, believing
that honesty was the best policy. He
was a man of charity, never turning
away any who appealed to him for
aid, but In his quiet, unassuming
way, he sought to do good to those
who were needy. Those in his em-
ploy speak OF him in the highest
terms as an employer and feel that
they have lost their best friend.
He was a director In some OF Bal
timore's leading financial institutions
among which we're the Guardian
Trust and Deposit Company and the
National Bank OF Commerce, and
Turing the recent illness OF Mr..
Eugene lowering, the president Of
hat bank, Mr.. Powell was made
PRESIDENT pro tenn. He was also a
OF the Chamber of Commerce
Ind the Merchants and Manufact-
irers Association and director in |
he q. A Gambrill Manufacturing |
company.
A good man has been taken away, |
md the whole community mourns
because of the loss it has sustained. |
The funeral services over his re
mains were held from his late resi-
lence, 2O01 North Charles street, at
hree O'Clock Wednesday afternoon,
rev. F. E. N illiams, pastor OF Boun-
larry Avenue Presbyterian church,
onducting the services, of which
hurch Mr.. Powell was trustee and
eaco n. The honorary pall-bearers
we're Messrs. w. P. Clotworth, Frank
Kerr, Alvin N. Bastable, Francis E.
Waters, James r. Edmunds, Henry
Williams, John w. Corbin, j. Hume
Imith, Robert M. Wylie, James Lake,
Thomas H. Bolts and George G. Hit.
The active pail bearers were Messrs.
frederick M. Warner, Stuart Eyer
Cd, Samuel <. Egerton. Thomas l.
King, Louis Staley and b. Frank
who were chosen from the /
rm and employees of William NJ.
POWELL & Co.