Background
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1759 from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1759 from the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).
University of Pennsylvania.
He served as mayor from 1775–1776 and 1789–1790, the office having lain vacant in the interim. "Samuel Powell, Pioneer ancestor of the Philadelphia family of that name, was born in stokes parish, Street Gregory, Somersetshire, England 11 Missouri 2, 1673, Of a somersetshire family originally from Wales, and Claimed descent from the prince of Powis, through Einion Efell, Lord of Cynlaeth, who flourished in the twelfth century.
Their coat-of-arms bore "Party per fesse argent and or, a lion rampant gules", crest, "A star of eight points above a cloud,-all proper."
Samuel Powel"s house, at 244 South 3rd Street, is a house museum run by the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.
A Georgian city house built by Charles Stedman in 1765, Powel expanded and embellished it around 1770, with carved woodwork and ornate plaster ceilings. At the close of Washington"s presidency, Mistress
Powel bought some of the furniture from the President"s House in Philadelphia. The house museum owns a set of china that was a gift from Martha Washington.
The rear parlor was removed from the house in 1921, and is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Artist
The ballroom was removed from the house in 1925, and is now at the Philadelphia Museum of Artist Both rooms have been replicated at the house museum.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1790 to 1793. Powel was an early member of the American Philosophical Society and a trustee of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania).