Direct descendant is highlighted in red 

FATHER

Andrew J. Powers

MOTHER

Louisa F. Countess

Biography on Andrew Jackson Powers, Jr
by Susan Brooke
May 2013

Andrew Jackson Powers, Jr. was probably working as a butcher in his father's meat store from an early age.  In the 1860 census, he was 11 and listed as "butcher."  However by the time he was sixteen he was working for the railroads.  In the 1865 Louisville City Directory he was listed as "pipeman, steam fire engine # 3."   Two years later, in 1867, he was "pipe director on Atwood engine No. 1"  and no longer living in his father's home.  His mother, Louisa Countess, had died the year before and his father remarried to Caroline Childers in February of 1869. 

Andrew Jr. continued to live independently from his father and is listed as "excavator" in the 1877 Louisville City Directory and "engineer" in the 1879 directory.  Then he disappeared from the Louisville directories.

The oral history is that he went West to look for gold.  He was supposedly successful.  His sister Blanche used to send him a copy of the local newspaper and he would send a copy of the Colorado paper, and that was their way of saying they were both okay.

He may have searched for gold or silver for awhile, but by 1890 he was living in Leadville, Colorado working for the Colorado Midland Railway.  The 1890 directory for Leadville lists him as "supt. water service."  The 1895 directory lists him as "foreman water service, for the Colorado Midland Railway.*  The last record we have of him is the 1900 census in which he was living in a boarding house in El Paso, Colorado listed as a "Water Service Boss."