Thompson, Ellen Powell, 1840-1911

LC control no.	no2014079975
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Thompson, Ellen Powell, 1840-1911 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Thompson, Nell, 1840-1911 Powell, Nell, 1840-1911 Powell, Ellen Louella, 1840-1911 Thompson, Ellen Louella, 1840-1911 Powell, Nellie, 1840-1911 Thompson, Nellie, 1840-1911
Located	Wheaton (Ill.) Normal (Ill.) Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1840
Death date	19110312
Place of birth	Jackson (Ohio)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity	Botany
Affiliation	Wheaton College (Ill.)
Found in	Utah historical quarterly, spring 1994: page 104 (Ellen Powell Thompson; 1840-1909) page 105 (sister of John Wesley Powell; married to Professor Almon Harris Thompson, Powell's geographer and first assistant to Powell on the second expedition to the Colorado River in 1871-72; Ellen accompanied the expedition; she went by Nell) page 111 (Nell had a strong interest in botany and collected plants during the expedition) page 126 (Nell attended Wheaton College in the 1850's and studied botany) page 131 (after the Colorado River expeditions the Thompsons made their permanent residence in Washington, D.C.); Ellen was actively involved in the woman's suffrage movent in the 1890s; her plant collection is in the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University) Wikipedia, website viewed June 10, 2014 (Almon Harris Thompson married Ellen Louella (Nellie) Powell, 1840-1909, the sister of John Wesley Powell on July 8, 1862; in 1870 they were living in Normal, Illinois where he was teaching school) Wikitree, website viewed June 10, 2014 (Ellen Louella Thompson, formerly Powell; born 1840 in Jackson, Ohio; died 12 Mar 1911 in Washington DC; married Almon H. Thompson, August 7, 1862 in Wheaton, Illinois) Tombstone of Ellen Louella Powell, website viewed June 10, 2014 (Ellen Powell Thompson, 1840-1911; sister of John Wesley Powell and wife of Almon Harris Thompson)
Associated language	eng