Thomas Powers was born in New Jersey in 1779, moved to Butler County, Ohio, and finally landed in Franklin County in 1815, a year before statehood.
It is worth noting that the population of Indiana Territory increased greatly during the years before 1816. The reason: Simple, the federal government wanted people living in places that wanted to become states.
Powers and his wife Virginia lived in Brookville Township before venturing into Fairfield Township, which was still actually part of Bath Township. Section 33 is deemed the Powers homestead, essentially in the Saltwell area west of the East Fork-Whitewater.
The biography (as credited at the end) says this: “The rest of their lives was happily spent here, the husband dying August 6, 1822, and September 15, 1875, more than half a century later, the widow passed to the other shore, when in her ninety-third year.”
So much for that.
The Powers family also runs into that of the Cory clan (see related item on Clement). Mary Cory, who married Clement Cory, was the daughter of John Johnston, the son of Jane Powers and Alexander Johnston. Jane was one of Thomas Powers's children. Got it?
Mary Prudence Johnston Cory was revered as having “many qualities which greatly endear her to all of her acquaintances and associates. Mrs. Cory's time is entirely given to her business interests and the welfare and happiness of her children.”
One of the Cory children was Adelia Irwin, who was married to Maynard Irwin, the publisher of the Brookville Democrat. (See related item).
Another Cory child is Maud C. Smolley, M.D.
Maud (alternate spelling, Maude) was the wife of Dr. John G. Smolley, who graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington and received his medical education at the Miami Medical College before setting up a practice in Connersville.
The biography, which was originally about Thomas Powers but has warped off to Maud Smolley, said that “after her marriage, Mrs. Smolley concluded to qualify herself for a professional career also, and for some time pursued her studies under the preceptorship of her husband.”
Maud later entered the Cincinnati Medical College, studied there for 3 years and continued to study there as the Women's Medical College was organized. Evidently the growing number of women the medical field (mostly nurses) had necessitated that.
Maud was the first graduate of the new Women's College and received an honorary degree.
Honorary.
After the good doctor passed on in 1896 (he died of typhoid fever, transmitting it to his wife, who survived it), Maud married a druggist’s son in Connersville in 1901 and became somewhat of a socialite there.
The groom, A. C. Andrews, was described in the wedding announcement as having “great promise in the literary world,” which explains what happened next to Maud Smolley. Maud never actually practiced medicine. Instead. She was “devoting much of her time to literary pursuits, and now holds the honorable office of secretary of the Western Association of Writers.”
A.C. Andrews’ mother had founded the association.
In 1925, Andrews divorced Maud on grounds of desertion. Maud came back to Fairfield after that and lived with her mother. He went on to aspiring heights and died at age 61 in 1939.
Maud Smolley Andrews died in 1952 and is buried in St. Michael Cemetery in Brookville.
MARIE LOUISE NEWLAND ANDREWS, CHARLTON'S MOTHER
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS (LEW WALLACE WAS A SUPPORTER)
– Lewis Publishing Company.
Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin
counties, Indiana (Volume 2) . Kindle Edition.
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