Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-08
DR.C.C.POWELL DEAD
Well Known Physician Passes to
His Final Rest.
DEATH OCCURRED SUNDAY MORNING
ottumWa, and South ottumwa in Par
3 ticuIar, Mourns Departure of Prom
inent Citizen-Did Many Kind Acts
for Suffering Mankind.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Surrounded by the members of his
family, DR.. C. C. Powell, the veteran
physician of South Ottumwa, passed
to rest at 2 O'Clock Sunday morning.
The end was peaceful 1t came after
a week of intense suffering of blood
poisoning. Some time before the last
breath was drawn, the patient seemed
to be at perfect ease, all suffering
passing away. With rest and ease
from pain, came death, the final sleep
which knows no waking. An entire
community mourns, with the members
of the bereaved family, the departure
from this life, of one of the city's
prominent citizens and a benefactor
to suffering mankind.
DR.. G. C. Powell was born at the old
ancestral home near Harrington,
Kent county, Delaware, May 2S,
1910, and spent his boyhood days on
the farm. He was educated at Cum
berland Valley Institute, Mechanics
burg, Pa, and at Dickinson Semin-
airy, at Williamsport, in the same
state. His medical education was OBJ
tanned at the College of Medicine at
Baltimore, Maryland, and at the AL
bany Medical College, Albany, N. Y,
from which last named institution he
graduated in the class of 1864.
He entered upon the practice of
his profession at Harrington, Della
war, and on October 10, 1864 mraredi
Miss Kate Fountain, of Denton, Mary
land. He and his wife resided at
Harrington, until January, 1876,when
they removed to Exeter, Scott coun-
ty Illinois, and lived in that county
until September, 1888, removing
then to Ottunwa, where they have re-
sided since that time.
DIR. Powe11's survivors are his wife,
Mrs Kate Powell, and three children,
James f., of Ottumwa; Alberta, now
Mrs. H. G. Head, of Willard, Neb.;
and William Hall, also of Ottumwa.
DR.. Powell has given his life for the
people of Ottumwa and the love of his
profession. For 3S years he has min
istered to the sick and afflicted of this
community, principally on the South
Side of the river, with no thought OF
whether or not he would ever be paid
for his services. At any time, day or
night, he was ready and willing to go
when called, and this in the face Of
the fact that in the majority of cases
he knew that the people to whom he
was going were not able to pay for his
services. But he loved his profession
he loved humanity. He believed
that physicians duty is to minister
to the sick and helpless, regardless OF
money consideration, and his con-
science has prompted him to do this
life work for his suffering fellowmen,
while it really kept him a poor man.
Pathetic, too, is the fact that he had
been persuaded to and had decided to
give up his profession with the first Of
the year and enter the county clerks
Office as deputy, having been appoint
to the position by Mr.. Michael. The
disease which caused his death-blood-
poisoning grew out of a slight scratch
on the hand which he received while
attending what would probably have
been his last case, had he lived.
Not only as physician did DR..
Powell give his life to the people of
Ottumwa, but it may be said truth
fully that he more than any other one
man is entitled to the largest amount
of credit for having been instrumental
in the building up of South Ottumwa.
What other men did with money, DIR.
Powell did with labor and personal
contact, and while other man have in
vested more money in building up the
SSorsth Side, no one has put in more OF
his own time to assist in the many en-
terprises and questions that came up
at the time South Ottumwa was a
struggling little addition to Ottumwa,
which it was when DR.. Powell moved
here. When there was any work of
any kind to be done for the benefit of
the South Side, DR.. Powell could al
ways be counted on to do more than
his share, and that cheerfully and
with no thought of reward. Political
~, too, DR.. Powell was prominent, not
only on the South Side, but in the city.
His advice was always sought and he
could always be counted on to do what
his party called for. He was respect,
ed and loved by men of all parties be.
cause he was fearless and open in pol
itics, the same as in his every act in
life. He had nothing to conceal-nc
axes to grind.
DR.. Powell was loved and respected
by everyone who knew him. He was
an ideal man-one whom was always
ready with cheerful act or word, and
one whom it was pleasure to meet
His death removes from Ottumwa one
of it's hardest workers, but he laid
down with clear conscience and the
bereayed ones he leaves behind have
the satisfaction of knowing that he
was happy to die as he had lived
with the thought of having done al
4 the good he could with all the power
he could command.
DRILLED PosToFFlcE SAFE.