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: Michael Henry Powers; According to the 1900 US Census record, he was born in Ohio. He became a farmer in Kirwin, Kansas. He married Mary Hoover and they had several children. According to his daughter Mary (Powers) Plaisted, he was a “proud Irishman” who never attended church in their town in Kansas because the town lacked a Catholic church. He is buried in Kansas.

: Michael Krondl; Michael Krondl is a food writer, culinary historian, cooking teacher and artist.

: Michael Meszaros; Michael began making portrait medals at the age of 13 under the influence of his father Andor, also a professional sculptor. He continued to make portrait medals while at school and at university while studying architecture, he began making expressive medals. After finishing his architecture course he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study medallic sculpture at La Scuola Dell’Arte della Medaglia (School of the Art of the Medal) in the Mint of Rome in 1969. He has lived as a full time sculptor since his return from Rome in early 1970, producing hundreds of medals (portraits, commissions and exhibition medals), 38 major public and private commissioned sculptures, reliefs, portrait heads, and a large body of exhibition sculpture. Michael has won a number of prizes in Australian and international competitions and has works in many local and international collections, including the British Museum. He has a number of major works in the US, Belgium, Japan and Papua New Guinea. Source: Artist's website

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