Transcribed by Lora Radiches

History of Rush County Indiana
1888
Brant & Fuller
Chicago

Homer Powell, a prominent young farmer of Jackson Township, was born near where he now resides August 13, 1857. His parents were J. M. and Mary E. (Porter) Powell, whose biographies appear in this volume. Our subject was reared amidst the hardships of farm life and adopted farming as a life business. In his early life he received a fair education. At the age of twenty-one he began life on his own responsibility, and was married to Fannie Arnett, daughter of William and Susan (Lakin) Arnett, old and respected residents of Posey Township, where Mrs. Powell was born and raised. Politically, he is a Republican. He now owns a fine farm of eighty acres in Section 14, with good improvements and is in comfortable circumstances.