Frederick A. Powers
Frederick Alton, youngest child of Arba and Naomi (Mathews) Powers, was born at the old homestead in West Pittsfield, Somerset county, Maine, June 19, 1855. He received his early school training in the local schools of his native town and was graduated at the Maine Central Institute, Pittsfield, in 1871, and from Bowdoin College, A. B., 1875. He studied law in the office of his brother, Llewellyn, in Houlton, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1876. He was associated with his brothers Llewellyn and Don Arba Horace up to 1891 when he was appointed judge of the supreme judicial court of Maine and he resigned from the bench March 31, 1907. He did not re-engage in the practice of law, but gave his time to the management of his extensive interests in Aroostook county. He married (first) January 7, 1879, Mary, daughter of Sylvanus Hussy, of Houlton, and they had two children : Llewellyn H. and Paul H., both graduates of Bowdoin College. Their mother died May 28, 1901, and Judge Powers married (second) Virginia Hewes, of Danforth, Maine, and by her he had no children.
[Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine; By George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs, 1909 - Submitted by K. Torp]

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