John Wesley Powell

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John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was an U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon.

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He was born in Mount Morris, New York, the son of Joseph Powell and Mary Powell. His father, a poor intinenary preacher, had emigrated to the US from Shrewsbury, England in 1830. His family moved westward to Chillicothe, Ohio, then Walworth County, Wisconsin, then finally settling in Illinois in rural Boone County. He gained an education in at Wheaton College and Oberlin College, acquiring a knowledge of Ancient Greek and Latin but never graduating. Powell had a deep interest in the natural sciences, with a restless nature. As a young man, he undertood a series of adventures through the Mississippi River valley. In 1855 he spent four months walking across Wisconsin. In 1856 he rowed the Mississippi from St. Anthony to the sea, in 1857 he rowed down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to St. Louis, and in 1858 down the Illinois River, then up the Mississippi and the Des Moines River to central Iowa. He was elected to the Illinois Natural History Society in 1859.

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