My Genealogy Hound

L. M. POWELL, A. B., M. D.
L. M. Powell, A. B., M. D., is one of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of Topeka, where he has been engaged in practice for many years. He was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1858, and is one of two children born to Charles Morgan and Margaret Ann (Lewis) Powell. His father, now deceased, was a successful contractor in Iowa until his death in 1860. His mother was again married to Rev. J. W. Clock, in 1863.

Dr. L. M. Powell accompanied his parents to Baldwin City, Kansas, in 1871, and there attended school. He attended Baker University, then known as the “Old Chapel,” and in 1878 was graduated from the High School at Ottawa, Kansas. He took a one year course in the Baptist College, of Ottawa, and then entered the University of Kansas at Lawrence, from which he was graduated in 1885 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He also took the preparatory medical course offered by the University. He was for two years assistant to the professor of chemistry. He then engaged in teaching school for a number of years, serving as principal of the High School at Newton, Kansas, one year, principal of the Quincy School at North Topeka one year, and of Lincoln School at Topeka one year.

In 1888 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated with the class of 1891. Upon leaving that institution he came West to Topeka, Kansas, where he has since practiced his chosen profession with a high degree of success. He fills the chair of clinical obstetrics in the Kansas Medical College, at Topeka. He is a Phi Beta Kappa. For five years he was chemist and microscopist for the State Board of Health. He was president of the Board of Health of Topeka one year, and is secretary of the medical staff of the Jane C. Stormont Hospital. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the Kansas State Medical Society and the Shawnee County Medical Society. He represented the Fourth Ward on the School Board one term while residing in that ward. He has a fine suite of offices in the Central National Bank Building, and commands the most desirable practice in the city.

In 1888, at the close of his school teaching, Dr. Powell was joined in marriage with Clara Bunker, of Marion, Ohio, and they have four children: Grace D., Loretta M., Elizabeth C. and Wendell B. Religiously, they are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Topeka.