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Phineas Powers and kin shaping Ohio silk lore and family tales
A lengthy reminiscence traces Phineas Powers of LaGrange and his sister Lydia Sibley through silk experiments in the 1830s, then farming, migration to Ashland and Cleveland, and later ventures with Phineas Powers Jr. The article links their lineage to Elyria and Sun City relatives, weaving in local lore like Aunt Lydia and her wild goose story, plus ties to the Sibley and Gott families and a note on Lemuel Powers, cousin of Abigail Fillmore.
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Phineas Powers
LaGrange
Phineas
Elizabeth
Josephine Wilcox
Hubbard Wilcox
Elyria
Robert Wilcox
Sun City
Ariz
Julius Wilcox
Harvey C
Grace (Freeman) Wilcox
Wilcox
Lydia Sibley
Hubbard A. Wilcox
Elizabeth Powers
Powers
England
Massachusetts
Walter Powers
Salem
Mass
Nashabah
Rochester
Worcester
N.Y
Lydia
Diagonal Road
Ashland
Sibley
Belinda Whitney
Laonia
Harvey
Susan
Sibleys
Olive Gott
Adolphus Gott
Peter
Silk House
Cleveland
Lorain Road
Phineas Powers LA
P.powers & Son
Lawn St
Lydia Powers Sibley
Lydia Powers
Lemuel Powers
Abigail ‘Powers Fillmore
Millard Fillmore
Zachary Taylor
United States
Fillmore
White House