Title	Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding Chester Powell
Collection Name	WPA Collection
Collection Number	WPA Bio 2084
Item Description	Powell, Chester - Biographical information for Chester Jefferson Powell; "Chester J. Powell", Sheridan News, Dec. 8, 1937
Date	Undated
Link to Finding Aid	https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
Notes	born: Jan. 18, 1888, near Savannah (Andrew Co., Mo.) - Negro
Notes	1st employer: C. R. Massey, a Sheridan banker
Notes	Powell, Mrs. Sara Ann Hamilton (wife, born: Sep. 25, 1888, at San Antonio, Tex. - married: 1914 - died: Mar. 14, 1947 (age: 58) - buried: Sheridan Municipal Cemetery at Sheridan, Wyo.)
Notes	Sheridan City Hall custodian (1916 - 1937+)
Notes	manages the Sheridan Police Department's finger printing bureau - established by Grand Rogers, Institute of Applied Science student
Notes	also served as police officer ". . . from time to time"
Notes	captured hunted murderer
Notes	died: Dec. 12, 1983 (age: 95), at Sheridan (Sheridan Co., Wyo.)
Notes	buried: Sheridan Municipal Cemetery (Plot: Block 2A, Lot 2 - Memorial ID: 55441287) at Sheridan
Notes	graduate, International Correspondence school, department of commercial law at University of Kansas student - football player
Notes	arrived Sheridan (Sheridan Co., Wyo. - 1910)
Rights	No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Type	Text
