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Lucius Powers

11 Jan 1872 – 4 Dec 1933

Birth	11 Jan 1872
Death	4 Dec 1933
Cemetery	Sacramento City Cemetery Sacramento , Sacramento County , California , USA
Added by	Little Orange in the Big Apple on 10 Apr 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37657434

Bio

LUCIUS POWERS. The Powers orchard and vineyard, of which Lucius Powers is general manager, holds rank among the most carefully improved and most thoroughly cultivated fruit farms in the Centerville district of Fresno county. The property, which adjoins Centerville on the west, comprises an aggregate of three hundred and seventy acres, subdivided as follows: one hundred and fifty acres in raisin grapes; twenty acres in Emperor grapes ; eleven acres in oranges; ten acres in apples; six acres in figs of the White Adriatic variety; ten acres in Calnjema figs; two acres in peaches; twenty acres in alfalfa, and the balance in hay and grain which furnish feed for the stock carried on the place. Ever since the stirring days of 1849 the Powers family has been identified with California history. The founder of the family on the coast was Aaron H. Powers, a native of New Hampshire, but from early childhood a resident of Boston, Mass., having accompanied his parents to that city. At the time of the discovery of gold in California he took passage on a sailing vessel and after a long voyage by way of the Horn landed at the Golden Gate, whence he proceeded to the mines of the north. Eventually he became engaged in business in Sacramento, where he continued for twenty years. Upon retiring from commercial life in 1887 he purchased two hundred and fifty acres west of Centerville in Fresno county and soon afterward planted one hundred acres of the tract in fruits of various kinds, also laid out a large vineyard. Of recent years he has given the management of the place into the hands of his son, Lucius, but still maintains a close supervision of the property and by wise counsel and keen judgment is proving a helpful factor in the highest development of the land. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Emma Louisa Sweasey, was born in London, England, and died in California. Of six sons and three daughters comprising the family of Aaron H. Powers the gentleman whose name introduces this article was next to the youngest. As a boy he received common-school advantages in his home town of Sacramento, where he was born January 11, 1872. After having taken a course in a business college in San Francisco he started out for himself, and ever since has been associated with the fruit ranch in Fresno county, where still he makes his home. An incident of his youth indicates his progressive, enterprising disposition. In 1889, when seventeen years of age, he established the Kings River News, a four-page sheet, which was 6x8 inches in size, and was published every other week. The people of the community around Centerville, which had no publication of its own, appreciated his efforts to give them the news of current interest, and their support encouraged him to increase the paper to eight pages, but after he had published it for two years other matters required his attention and he discontinued the little publication. By his marriage to Miss Abbie Viau, who was born at Colusa, this state, Mr. Powers has three children, Lucius, Jr., Mary Louisa and Martha Kate. In political belief a Republican, he has been active in local affairs of the party, and for some years has served as a member of the county central committee. Fraternally he is associated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the kindred organization of Rebekahs at Centerville. Both he and his father, who continues to make the ranch his home, take an intelligent interest in matters for the benefit of the county and especially give encouragement to movements for the development of the fruit in terests of this locality, believing that the land can be made more profitable by following horticulture and viticulture than by continuing in general farming or stock-raising.

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Mary Louisa Powers Arehart 1903–1956

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