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Power family of Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Eugene Barnum Power (1905-1993) — also known as Eugene B. Power — of Barton Hills, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Mich., June 4, 1905. Democrat. Member of University of Michigan board of regents; elected 1955, 1963. Episcopalian. Member, Rotary. Founder of University Microfilms in 1938; merged with Xerox Corporation 1962. Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich., December 6, 1993 (age 88 years, 185 days). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.

		Relatives: Son of Glenn Warren Power and Annette (Barnum) Power; married, June 17, 1929, to Sadye L. Harwick; father of Philip H. Power (who married Sarah Goddard).
		Epitaph: "An entrepreneur and inventor, he founded University Microfilms, Inc. A public servant, he was a Regent of the University of Michigan. A Philanthropist, he founded the Power Foundation. Honored by a knighthood, he lives in the memory of his family as 'An Edition of One.'"
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial
		Image source: Michigan Manual 1957-58

Sarah Goddard Power (1935-1987) — also known as Sarah Goddard — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., June 19, 1935. Democrat. Member of University of Michigan board of regents, 1975-87; died in office 1987; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, 1976. Female. Protestant. Died by suicide, from jumping to her death from the eighth floor of Burton Tower, on the University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich., March 24, 1987 (age 51 years, 278 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.

		Relatives: Daughter of Wendell Converse Goddard and Katherine Shearer Russel Goddard; married 1971 to Philip H. Power (son of Eugene Barnum Power).
		Political family: Power family of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Philip H. Power — also known as Phil Power — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. Democrat. Newspaper publisher; candidate for U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1978; member of University of Michigan board of regents, 1987-98; appointed 1987; defeated, 1998. Still living as of 1998.

Relatives: Son of Eugene Barnum Power; married 1971 to Sarah Goddard.

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