Sumner Chilton Powell
Sumner Chilton Powell 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, but remained a Naval Reserve Officer until 1961. 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 , based on records on Sudbury, Massachusetts from 1638–1660, tracing every settler back to England.
