Albert E. Powers, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Albert E. Powers

American academic

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1816

Date of Death: 17-Jun-1910

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Albert Ebenezer Powers (December 5, 1916 – June 17, 1910) was the acting president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1887-88.
He was born in Lansingburgh, New York.
He entered Rensselaer as a student in 1834, but stayed for only four months.
He married Frances Elizabeth Hanford in 1839, but she died in 1850.
In 1841, he joined a business that was started by his father manufacturing oil cloth.
In 1857, he married his second wife, Lucy Clark Allen.
In 1861, he was appointed a trustee of Rensselaer and served as acting president in 1887-1888.