Alvah Leigh Powell
Alvah Leigh Powell was an American inventor and creator of the Powell Lever Motor.
Alvah Leigh Powell was born to Madison S. Powell and Sarah Ann Cummings in Vicksburg, MS. He first married Ada B. Cook in 1882 in Lake Village, AR and they had six children Ernest Allen , Virginia , Evans Alvah , Sarah Anne , Lillian Ada , and Helen J. . Powell and his family moved frequently across the midSouthern US, with all the children except two being born in different locations in different states. Some sources indicate that Powell was a minister during these years, accounting for the frequent moves, however they are secondary sources and no primary source has been cited. Powell divorced Ada in 1903 and remarried to Bertha M. Flowers in 1905. There were no children from the second marriage.
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