Albert E. Powers

Albert E. Powers

Albert E. Powers was the ninth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born on December 5, 1816 in Lansingburgh, New York. He entered Rensselaer as a student in 1834, but stayed for only four months. He married Frances Elizabeth Hanford in 1839, but she died in 1850. In 1841, he joined a business that was started by his father manufacturing oil cloth. In 1857, he married his second wife, Lucy Clark Allen. In 1861, he was appointed a trustee of Rensselaer and served as acting president in 1887-1888.

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* [http://www.lib.rpi.edu/dept/library/html/Archives/history/presidents/powers,ae.html Presidents of RPI: Albert E. Powers]


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