Sumner Chilton Powell (October 2, 1924 in Northampton, Massachusetts – July 8, 1993 in Colora, Maryland)Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. was an American historian and history teacher at the Choate School, a college-prep boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
He attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1946, and from 1947 to 1952 was an active US Naval Officer attaining the rank of Lieutenant (jg), but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961.United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library. He earned a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1956.
In 1957 he published From Mythical to Medieval Man. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for History for Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town (1963),"History". In the mid-1960 he taught at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25. based on records on Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638 to 1660, tracing every settler back to England.
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