“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


MOSES POWERS,  farmer, Postmaster and Assessor; Sec. 35; born in 
Augusta Township, Oneida Co., N.Y., July, 1812; passed his early life 
on a farm.  Married Miss Olive Currie, March, 1836, in Augusta, Oneida 
Co.; she was a native of New York State. They had five children – 
Oscar, Eugene, Hortense, Ellen and Mary.  Their mother died in March, 
1868.  Mr. Powers, in spring of 1844, on Sec. 28, purchased eighty 
acres, and, the following fall, purchased eighty acres more.  In 1850, 
sold some of his property and went to California, on a gold-hunting 
expedition.  In 1853, returned home to Oakland Township, Wis., and, in 
1863, he started for Pike’s Peak, Colo., and returned in 1865; purchased 
seventy-seven acres, which now forms his homestead, and makes a 
specialty of tobacco, beans, strawberries and hops.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel