A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
A son of Eugene Power and Celestia Serviss, he married Florence Annette Barnum daughter of Frank Humphrey Barnum and Edna Gates.
From the Traverse City Record Eagle, April 13, 1954: Glenn W. Power, one of Traverse City's most outstanding citizens and the man responsible in great degree for this community's development over the past half century, died Monday night in University hospital at Ann Arbor. He was 77 years old.
Mr. Power, who had been ill the past several weeks, had entered University hospital last Wednesday for treatment. No man In Traverse City's history during the past 60 years had played a more important role than had Mr. Power in contributing to the growth of the community and in active support of a multitude of projects and programs carried on locally. Mr. Power was born in Farmington, Mich., on December 24, 1876, and came to this region with his parents when a young man, the family settling on a farm near Elk Rapids, where Mr. Power began the growing of cherries. He taught, school for several years in schools In the Elk Rapids and Williamsburg areas and at Mackinaw City, leaving the teaching profession to enter the life insurance business over 50 years ago. He later became owner and operator of a general Insurance agency, the Hastings-Santo Insurance Agency of this city. He was united in marriage to Annette Barnum, member of a prominent local pioneer family. Mrs. Power preceded him in death on May 12, 1941.
Surviving are two sons, Dr. Frank Power of this city and Eugene Power of Ann Arbor.
From the Traverse City Record Eagle, April 14, 1954: Funeral services for Glenn W. Power, pioneer local insurance man and outstanding civic leader in the community, will be hold from First Congregational church Thursday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock, Dr. Towne, pastor of First Congregational church, will officiate, and burial will be made in the family lot in Oakwood cemetery.
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