The History of the Township and Village of Mazomanie, 
BY WILLIAM KITTLE, MADISON, WIS. 
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO. 1900.

HENRY POWELL was born in Worcester, Eng., in 1834. He came 
with his father to a farm a mile and a half west of the 
present village of Mazomanie in 1845. His mother died in 
1868 and his father, William Powell, in 1880. Henry Powell 
enlisted in the artillery service in 1864. He served on 
the town board for several years after 1869, and from 1884 
to 1900 has served continuously as member of the Dane 
County Board of Supervisors, and for eight years has been 
chairman of that board. In 1887 he was elected member of 
the state legislature. He married Miss Emma Hays and they 
have four children: Mary, in Mazomanie; Laura, now Mrs. 
Morrill, and Mrs. Holcomb, near Verdon, S. D., and Mrs. 
Roberts, in Gladstone, Mich.

Submitted by Randi McCartney