| Code | DS/UK/1431 |
| Dates | 24/03/1834-23/09/1902 |
| Person Name | Powell; John Wesley (24/03/1834-23/09/1902); Major |
| Surname | Powell |
| Forenames | John Wesley |
| Title | Major |
| Activity | Soldier, geologist, explorer; Director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894); Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology; worked at the Smithsonian Institution. |
| History | Major in the US civil war (1861-1865); position of professor of geology and curator of the museum of the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington (1865-); led first exploration of the Grand Canyon (1869) ;meetings at his home were formalized as the Cosmos Club (1874); |
| Source | "John Wesley Powell" in en.Wikipedia URL: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell> [accessed 24/06/2011]. |
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