Kings County Biographies


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POWELL, FRANK
 
     The people of Lemoore have many times been congratulated on having such a 
genial and efficient postmaster as Frank Powell, who has held the office 
continuously since his first appointment by President Harrison. Mr. Powell is a 
native of Sacramento, Cal., born March 22, 1867, a son of F. M. Powell. He was 
brought up at Brighton, near Sacramento, and came to the vicinity of Lemoore 
with his parents in 1873, when he was about six year old. The elder Powell 
turned his attention to farming and the boy became a student in the Lemoore 
public school and later was graduated from the high school at Tulare. 
 
     The first postal work done by Mr. Powell was in the Tulare postoffice, 
where he was for two years a deputy under Postmaster under M. D. Witt. Usually 
postmasters are appointed chiefly for political reasons, but Mr. Powell was 
called to the postmastership of Lemoore because he was experienced in the work 
that the postoffice demanded and could adapt himself to the situation more 
easily and become an efficient postmaster with greater facility than any other 
man in town. He was first appointed under the Harrison administration and he has 
since been five times reappointed. His management of the office has put it on a 
business plane considerably higher than that usually occupied by postoffices of 
towns of about the population of Lemoore. So far as he has been able he has 
brought the establishment to a system resembling in some ways that which obtains 
in cities of considerable importance.
 
     Eight miles from Lemoore in the midst of the Empire district, is a fine 
ranch owned by Mr. Powell, which he devotes to the cultivation of alfalfa and 
the raising of fine hogs. Politically he is a Republican and socially he is a 
Woodman of the World. As a citizen his public spirit is equal to all demands 
which tend toward municipal welfare. He married in 1898, Miss Belle Adams of 
Kings county, and they have a daughter whom they have named Ella. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913  Pp 385, 386
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn