Powell, Stephen, 1933-2007

Stephen Alonzo Powell III was born July 21, 1933 in Summit, New Jersey, the son of Bryan B. and Elizabeth Baker Powell. Graduating in 1955 from Hamilton College, New York, he enlisted in the army. Following his military service, he obtained a Master of Library Science degree from Rutgers University in 1962 and started work at the University of Nevada, Reno as an acquisitions librarian. Moving from Reno to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1969, he joined Library Special Collections at then Nevada Southern University, later the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 1972, he created the first published bibliography of the department’s growing gaming collection. Before leaving the university in 1980, Powell donated his great-aunt's photograph album to the archive. Returning to the east coast, he eventually settling in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and began a long career in book-selling, specializing in modern literary first editions. Stephen A. Powell died on Septermber 18, 2007.

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Hamilton College, "Hamilton Magazine," Spring, 2008, accessed October 10, 2019, https://www.hamilton.edu/magazine/spring08/necrology/1950s#powell