The 1888 Crystal Palace recordings

The Descendants of François Fauvel GOURAUD

Third Generation

9. Powers St George GOURAUD (George Edward , François Fauvel ) was born in 1881. He died on 17 Sep 1954.

Named after the American post and preacher, the Rev. Horatio Nelson Powers, D.D., of Piermont, on the Hudson, Gouraud's agent and brother-in-law
Source: http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=D9426&

POWERS, Horatio Nelson, author, born in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, 30 April, 1826. He was graduated at Union college in 1850, afterward attended the General theological seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church, New York city, and was ordained a deacon in Trinity church, New York. He was assistant at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, till April, 1857; rector of St. Luke's church, Davenport, Iowa, in 1857-'62; of St. John's church, Chicago, in 1868-'74; of Christ church, Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1875-'84; and became rector of Christ church, Piermont, New York, in 1886. He was president of Griswold college in 1864-'7, and president of the Foundlings' home, Chicago, in 1872-'4. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1867. Dr. Powers has published " Through the Year " (Boston, 1875) ; " Poems, Early and Late " (Chicago, 1876) : and "Ten Years of Song" (Boston, 1887); and is one of the authors of " Homes and Haunts of our Elder Poets" (New York, 1881). --His brother, Edward, civil engineer, born in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, 1 September, 1830, was educated in the public schools. He served as a civilian clerk in the quartermaster's department during the civil war, afterward taught for a time, and then became a civil engineer. In 1872 and 1874 he an-successfully petitioned congress that an experiment might be performed with the powder and cannon of the United States to determine the influence of explosions on rainfall, with a view to the prevention of droughts. He has published "War and the Weather, or the Artificial Production of Rain" (Chicago, 1871).
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Powers married Irma Schlesinger HUNT.

They had the following children:

11 M i Jackson GOURAUD was born on 7 Sep 1918 in New York, NY, USA. He died on 17 Aug 2002 in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado.

Jackson married (1) Sheila M. MCCOWAN on 31 Jan 1942. Sheila died in Oct 1994.

Jackson married (2) Betty Upham BUFFUM in 1996.

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