John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris ... him a leave of absence to marry his first cousin Emma Dean at her family home in Detroit. She returns with him to the war.

John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of Ethnology Among ... Many of those he hired were either close friends or relatives. On the inaugural trip of his survey — a second expedition down the ...

Some have said I wasn’t there. When a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the first known descent through the Grand Canyon in 1869, from the Green River Station in Wyoming ...

Its first director, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), helped shape the field of ethnology and anthropology. Powell’s exploration work and the findings referenced in his Report of the Exploration of the ...