[1] After serving in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II in England, he returned to the Canton, Ohio-area near Minerva in 1946, and began work first as a janitor and later as a security guard for the Timken bearing and steel company.
[1] Due to racial segregation,[2] he was banned from all-white public golf courses and was rejected for a bank loan to try to build his own.
[1] With financing from two African-American doctors and a loan from his brother, Powell bought a 78-acre (320,000 m2) dairy farm in East Canton, Ohio, and with his wife, Marcella, did most of the landscaping by hand.
[5] He also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from his alma mater, and from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
[6] * 2001 - The United States Department of the Interior added Clearview Golf Course to the National Register of Historic Places.