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the war was ended, he continued active in military affairs for some time. He was commissioned colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Burnside, and later served as colonel of the Ist Rhode Island Light Infantry Regiment, and lieu- tenant-colonel of the Ist Infantry Battalion, serv- ing as such until his final resignation on November 9, 1883.
Taking up again the pursuits of peace, Colonel Goddard returned to his native city and there en- tered actively into business affairs, being promi- nently identified with the well-known firms of Goddard Brothers and Brown and Ives, both of which were chiefly engaged in cotton manufacture. In many other phases of Rhode Island life, how- ever, Colonel Goddard was equally active, and he was widely known for his public-spirited interests in the advancement of the State's welfare. He was elected to the State Senate as an Independent, although a Republican in politics, and he served as a member of that body during the session of 1907-08. During this period he was a member of the committee on finance, and chairman of the com- mittee on education. Meanwhile his independence and sterling worth had attracted attention and in the campaigns for United States Senator in 1906 and 1907, he was the candidate of the Democratic and Lincoln parties. Although he lost his cam- paign, this defeat was in itself a victory. "The influence of his leadership cannot be overesti- mated," wrote the "Providence Journal." "Thou- sands of voters in the community have learned in the past year from his example the meaning of a true and virile citizenship."
On January 26, 1870, Colonel Goddard mar- ried Rebekah Burnet Groesbeck, daughter of the Hon. William S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Three children were born of their marriage: I. William Groesbeck, born November 21, 1870, died on April 25, 1882. 2. Madeleine Ives, born on June 30, 1874; married Marquis d'Andigne, of Anjou, France, on December 29, 1906. 3. Robert Hale Ives, of this record.
Robert Hale Ives Goddard received his early education in Rhode Island schools, and later en- tered Yale University, from which he was gradu- ated in 1902 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After the completion of his academic training he began his business career at Providence. For many years now he has been one of the financial and industrial leaders of the State. Mr. Goddard is president of the Lonsdale Company, and a director of the following enterprises : the American Mutual Fire Insurance Company; the Boston Manufac-
turers Mutual Fire Insurance Company; the Cotton-Textile Institute; the Enterprise Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; the Manufacturers Mu- tual Fire Insurance Company; the Mechanics Mutual Fire Insurance Company; the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company; the Puritan Life Insurance Company; the Rhode Island Hos- pital Trust Company; and the State Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is a trustee of Butler Hospital and the Providence Institution for Sav- ings, while since March I, 1920, he has been a member of the Board of Commissioners of Provi- dence City Hospital.
At Providence, Mr. Goddard has been a member of the City Council, serving with distinction in that body from 1913 to 1925. He is now a member of the Rhode Island State House Commission, and has long been known for his liberal support of all worthy movements for advance and progress.
On July 15, 1908, at Peace Dale, Rhode Island, Robert Hale Ives Goddard married Margaret Hazard, daughter of Rowland Gibson and Mary Pierrepont (Bushnell) Hazard. There is one son of this marriage: Robert Hale Ives, Jr., born on December 9, 1909. Mr. Goddard worships with his family in the faith of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His residence is at No. 66 Power Street, Providence, while he maintains offices in this city at No. 50 South Main Street.
LOUIS V. JACKVONY-In political activi- ties and fraternal circles of Rhode Island, as well as in the practice of his legal profession, Louis V. Jackvony is exceptionally well known, for his activities and contacts are extensive. He has served as a member of the State Legislature and as second assistant attorney-general of the State, in addition to playing his part on various committees and man- agerial organizations having to do with Republican party affairs. But his outside activities have not prevented him from devoting his best efforts to development of his practice, with the result that he has a large and rapidly growing circle of clients, in spite of his comparative youth and the fact that he has been practicing for little more than a decade.
Born in Providence on January 25, 1892, Mr. Jackvony is the son of Antonio Jackvony, a na- tive of Capriata, Italy, who has been a contractor and builder in Providence since his coming to the New World. His wife was born in Scapoli, Italy, and was, before her marriage, Carmela Grieco. Their son attended the public schools of Provi-
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dence and, following his graduation from the Technical High School, enrolled at Boston Uni- versity where he was graduated from the School of Law, class of 1916, with a Bachelor of Laws de- gree. The following year he passed his bar exami- nations and was admitted to practice in Rhode Island. He opened his office at 625 Hospital Trust Building, from which he has since worked. In professional organization work Mr. Jackvony is active. He is a member of the Rhode Island State Bar Association and the American Law Institute, serving the latter organization as a member of the advisory board for the State of Rhode Island.
As a member of the Republican executive com- mittee for the city of Providence, Mr. Jackvony has had much to do with management of party affairs in the city for some time. He is chairman, also, of the Third Ward Republican Committee. Winning the nomination as representative to the State Legislature in 1920, he led his party to vic- tory and represented his constituency ably in the sessions of 1920 and 1922. He has also received the appointment as second assistant attorney general for the State of Rhode Island. During the World War Mr. Jackvony served in the Officers' Training School at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he was attached to the 21st Company, 4th Battalion. He was also a member of the legal advisory board and furthered the cause of the Liberty Loans by acting as a "four-minute" speaker in their behalf. In consequence of the good work he did, he has been made an honorary member of Joseph Bruce Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, a place seldom accorded to anyone who has not seen overseas serv- ice. Mr. Jackvony is fraternally affiliated with Providence Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Palestine Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and the Sons of Italy. He belongs to the parish of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church.
On February 7, 1921, Mr. Jackvony married Clotilde Zambarano, who was born in Providence. The three children born to this union are Louis V., Jr., Jacqueline J., and Alma A.
HARRY PARSONS CROSS-Toward the business and civic development of Providence, Rhode Island, as toward the conduct of his private affairs and his law practice, Harry Parsons Cross, of the firm of Greenough, Lyman & Cross, has always maintained an attitude of conscientiousness and efficiency. As a result, he is highly regarded as
a lawyer and citizen. His influence on behalf of progress has been commensurate with his generous contribution of time and energy to public affairs.
Harry Parsons Cross was born in Wakefield, Rhode Island, son of Elisha Watson and Frances Cooper (Wright) Cross. The father was a mer- chant and in the Civil War defended the Union as an officer in the Northern Army. The family name derives from what was formerly usually a place name, indicating where a cross was erected or the intersection of two highways. Several persons bear- ing the name came to New England from England as early as 1615. Among the ancestors of Mr. Cross was the founder of the Hazard family, one of whom settled Newport. The boy enjoyed ex- cellent educational advantages, for he was of cul- tured and intellectual stock. He graduated from South Kingstown High School in 1891, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1892, and attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1896. His law studies were pursued at the Har- vard Law School, which bestowed on him in 1900 the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admission to practice before the Rhode Island courts, in 1901, permitted Mr. Cross to begin his legal practice in Providence, where he has since continued, and his growing professional activity was made possi- ble by his admission to the United States Supreme Court in 1909. His private practice has been large and his connection with one of the most important law firms in New England, Greenough, Lyman and Cross, has brought him into corporate and finan- cial business of an intricate but significant kind. Mr. Cross represents the Lonsdale Company, the Preferred Accident Insurance Company, is a di- rector of the Industrial Trust Company, of the Providence Journal Company, the Rhode Island Tool Company, the Builders Iron Foundry and the Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company.
These activities have by no means prevented his participation in public affairs. Mr. Cross was sec- ond assistant attorney-general of Rhode Island from 1907 to 1912, and first assistant in 1912, re- signing from the post that same year. He was delegate-at-large from Rhode Island to the Re- publican National Convention in 1916, and a mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the Metropoli- tan Park Commission, from which he resigned in 1918. He was chairman of the commission to study the question of changing the representation in the State Senate in 1925-26, and also of the commission to draft and report an act to carry into effect Article XIX of Amendments to the Constitution
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of the State, and to reapportion the Representative Districts of the State. In non-political matters, Mr. Cross has also served the public. He was president of the Lincoln School until his resigna- tion in 1925, after which he became a trustee, and he has been president of the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children since 1923. He is a trustee and member of the executive committee of the Homeopathic Hospital of Provi- dence, and treasurer of the Providence Music League, as well as director of the Providence Music Association. He served overseas with the Young Men's Christian Association during the World War.
His college fraternity was the Psi Upsilon. He belongs to the Rhode Island Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar, city of New York. His clubs are: the Agawam Hunt, Hope, the Squantum Association, the Jacobs Hill Hunt, and the Providence Art, of Providence ; the Elihu, of New Haven; the Yale and Knickerbocker, of New York; the Somerset, of Boston; the Newport Fishing and Clambake, of Newport. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars. His religious adherence is that of the Episcopal Church.
The children of Mr. Cross are: Lorania Car- rington (Cross) Welsh; Harry King Cross; Fran- ces King Cross; Hope Gammell Cross; Virginia Cross; and Eliza A. H. Cross.
EVERETT J. HORTON-Reputed to be the largest flour merchandising concern in the State of Rhode Island is the E. J. Horton Company, of Providence, and to the enterprise and industry of its proprietor, Everett J. Horton, who founded the company in 1910, is due its present prosperity. Born, reared, and educated in Providence, Mr. Horton regards the interests of the town as of equal importance to his own and he has a host of friends who have known him throughout his life and esteem him not only for his business ability but also for the sterling fundamental worth of his character. Actively interested in all manner of civic affairs, he has served in official capacities with the Republican party, to which he gives his politi- cal allegiance, and to the public-at-large as a mem- ber of the Board of Fire Commissioners, member of the Board of Public Safety, and of other city service bodies.
Mr. Horton was born March 10, 1880, in Provi-
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dence, the son of Jarvis S. Horton, native of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and a wholesale and re- tail grocery merchant throughout his life. He is a direct descendant of Lieutenant James Horton, who fought with the Colonial Army in the war of the Revolution. His wife, now deceased, was before her marriage Ida F. Battey of Providence. Their son attended the public grade schools and the Classical High School of Providence, and secured his higher education at Brown University, where he distinguished himself scholastically and was chosen captain of the debating team during his senior year. He also had the honor of being named one of the commencement speakers at the gradua- tion exercises of his class in 1902. Mr. Horton's first position, after his school work had been com- pleted, was with Arbuckle Brothers Company where he remained one and one-half years before becoming associated with N. L. Berry and Com- pany, flour merchants, in 1904. But his desire was to have a business of his own and, in 1910, he resigned to organize the E. J. Horton & Company of which he has since been sole proprietor. He has constantly enlarged the scope of his operations until now the concern is representing flour mills in New York State, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Min- nesota and Montana, and is among the largest con- cerns of its kind in Rhode Island. The offices are located at No. 1117 Turks Head Building.
Mr. Horton is prominent in fraternal affairs. He is a Past Master and now is serving as treas- urer of Mt. Vernon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a member of Providence Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Providence Council, Royal and Select Masters; St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, all the Scottish Rite bodies, and Palestine Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. From his Brown University days he belongs to Delta Upsilon Fraternity and Cammarian Club. Mr. Horton is a member of the Providence Rotary Club, the Providence Chamber of Commerce, and the Turks Head Club. For some time he has served as a director of the Provi- dence Young Men's Christian Association and in the same capacity for the Providence Chapter, American Red Cross. It is, however, in the field of politics that Mr. Horton spends the larger share of his extra time, perhaps, for he is intensely inter- ested in it. For five years he was a member of the Republican City Committee and as a result of his various public activities received the appoint- ment to membership on the board of fire commis- sioners, a post he held for the eleven years from
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1917 to 1928, four years of the time serving as chairman of the board. He has also served on the Providence Board of Contracts and the Board of Public Safety. Mr. Horton is a member of the corporation of the People's Savings Bank. He is a member and earnest supporter of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church. He was elected as a delegate to the Quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1920 and 1924, heading the delegation of the New England South- ern Conference. He is treasurer of the local church, having served as such from 1910 to the present time.
In 1905 Mr. Horton married Mabel Iris Clark, native of Quebec, Canada. To this union were born four children, two of whom survive: I. Iris Clark, a graduate of Skidmore College in the class of 1928, and now employed as stylist for various jewelry manufacturers in Providence and Attle- boro. 2. Philip Clark, who is a student at Prince- ton University, class of 1933.
REV. EDWARD A. HIGNEY-A long and successful term of service has been that of Rev. Edward A. Higney, pastor of St. Joseph's Church of Newport, Rhode Island, who took charge there January 18, 1912, and is still ably leading the people of that parish (1930).
St. Joseph's parish is, in reality, the oldest in Newport, though its existence has not been con- tinuous. On August 20, 1837, Rt. Rev. Bishop Fenwick of Boston dedicated the first Catholic Church erected in Newport. It was a frame build- ing, sixty-five by forty, with a gallery at the end, located on Barney Street, on the first land ever owned by Catholics in the State of Rhode Island, and was placed under the patronage of St. Joseph. Ten years later the building was pronounced un- safe and plans were made for a new church on Spring Street. The new church was placed under the patronage of St. Mary, and the old building, being no longer needed, was sold August 5, 1863, with the provision that it be removed from the premises. After the completion of St. Mary's Church the Newport mission was known as St. Mary's parish and was no longer called St. Joseph's. However, when conditions in the north- ern part of the town warranted a second parish in Newport, the new parish of St. Joseph was formed January 15, 1885, and Rev. James Coyle, of the Cathedral at Providence, later Monsignor Coyle, was placed in charge. On Sunday, January
22, 1885, the first mass was celebrated in the old Unitarian Church on Mill Street, the building which, during the World War, was known as "The Community House," and which in 1922 was pur- chased by the Knights of Columbus Home Cor- poration. In March, 1885, the Zion Episcopal Church on Touro Street was purchased by Rev. James Coyle, pastor, and Dr. Horatio R. Storer and Michael F. Shea, trustees, for the sum of $15,025. When necessary repairs and alterations had been made the church and adjoining chapel were dedicated on Sunday, September 6, 1886, by Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Hendricken, bishop of Provi- dence. By the second year of its existence as a separate parish St. Joseph's was not only clear of debt but was ready to enlarge its material pos- sessions. On January 13, 1887, the Young estate on Touro Street, adjoining the church property, was purchased for the sum of $28,500. The fol- lowing May work was started on the new rectory, which was finished and occupied by October 13, 1887. Previous to that date Father Coyle had lived in the tenement over Easterbrook's market on Broadway, opposite the City Hall. One of the first cares of Father Coyle was to provide a par- ish school for the children of St. Joseph's. The two purchases, Zion Episcopal Church and the Young Estate, had burdened the parish heavily with debt, and the establishment of the school represented a problem. Father Coyle decided to use the build- ing on the Young Estate, a relic of Revolutionary days, well-built, but not spacious enough to ac- commodate all the children. Four Sisters of St. Joseph came to assist him in September, 1889, and from that time to the present the schools have remained in their charge. This first parish school opened in what is the present high school building, Father Coyle called St. Joseph's Acad- emy. A tuition fee of ten dollars a year was charged, but Father Coyle aimed to have, as soon as possible, a much larger school, better equipped and free. Less than two years later, Mr. George Babcock Hazard, a non-Catholic gentleman of Newport, who was wealthy and a great friend of Father Coyle's, by a most extraordinary gift, made possible the building of the new school, which was called the Hazard Memorial School. The cor- ner-stone was laid by Bishop Harkins August 6, 1890, and the school was dedicated August 2, 1891. The building is of pressed brick with Amherst stone trimming and is three stories high, the main building covering a space seventy-eight by sixty- five feet, with wings thirty by twenty-two feet at either end. Large, airy classrooms, modernly
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equipped throughout and finished in hardwood, are provided with gas and electric lights. At first the third floor was used as a hall, accommodating about one thousand persons, but before 1922 the enrollment had so increased that it was necessary to use part of the hall space for class rooms. The school was opened in September, 1891 and the pupils took possession September 8, with appro- priate ceremonies. The old house on the Young Estate was then remodelled as a convent for the use of the Sisters and a room on the second floor converted into a chapel. The faculty was in- creased to ten Sisters and one lay teacher. On September 18, 1896, Father Coyle was appointed pastor of St. Mary's Church, Taunton, Massachu- setts, after a long and successful pastorate of twelve years at St. Joseph's. A church, grammar school, high school, a prosperous Sunday school, church societies, a rectory, a convent all were the fruits of his labors.
Rev. Louis J. Deady was the next pastor. He had built a beautiful new church at St. Louis' parish at Fall River, Massachusetts, and upon coming to St. Joseph's in Newport he promptly decided that a larger church was needed and be- gan collecting for a "building fund." On January 31, 1898, the Kimber Estate, located on the corner of Broadway and Mann Avenue, was purchased. On September 21, 1901, adjoining land located on Mann Avenue, and the house upon it, were pur- chased. Plans for the new church were drawn by Mr. Creighton Withers, and on October 28, 1904, the contract was awarded for the foundation and basement. These were nearly finished when Father Deady was transferred to Sacred Heart Church in Pawtucket. Meantime, the construction of St. Anthony's Church in the eastern end of the town had been begun in 1901. Father James Mahan, who succeeded Father Deady, continued the work of building the new church, but he changed the plans and specifications, providing for a brick building instead of a granite structure. The corner-stone was laid August 27, 1911. Father Mahan lived to see the cross raised on the church, but died Jan- uary 13, 1912, and was succeeded by the present pastor, Rev. Edward A. Higney, who took charge January 18, 1912.
Rev. Edward A. Higney was ordained at St. John's Lateran Basilica in Rome, Italy, May 27, 1893. After his ordination he returned to this country and was appointed assistant in the Church of the Sacred Heart in East Providence, where he worked with Father Harty for nine years. He then served at St. Patrick's, Providence, for four
and a half years, at the end of which time he was made a pastor and assigned to St. James' Church at Arctic, Rhode Island, where he rendered able service for five and a half years. On January 18, 1912, he came to his present charge as pastor of St. Joseph's Church of Newport, Rhode Island. His first task awaited him in the completion of the unfinished church, which task he accomplished in less than a year, the dedication taking place September 8, 1912, when Rt. Rev. Bishop Harkins presided and the sermon was preached by the Very Rev. Edmund T. Shanahan of the Catholic Uni- versity of America, Washington, District of Columbia.
The new church is truly beautiful. Roman- esque in style, with granite foundation and super- structure of brick with terra cotta trimming its lines and its proportions attract and satisfy the artistic eye. Inside, it is large and spacious, its unique but comfortable pews providing seating for about 1,100 persons. The three altars of Carrara marble are of the finest workmanship, the two side altars harmonizing with the main altar, one dedi- cated to St. Joseph and the other to Mary, Mother of Jesus. The floor of the sanctuary and the altar steps are of marble and the sanctuary lamp and altar rail are of bronze. The pulpit is of carved wood, and on the opposite pillar is a crucifix of carved wood, both wonderful specimens of the wood-carver's art. On the walls are the fourteen stations of the cross, all in mosaic. Stained glass windows from Munich, Bavaria, represent scenes from the life of Christ and the saints and mellow the light which comes into the church. The chapel is completely finished and furnished, the altar, sanctuary rail, statues of the Sacred Heart, the Blessed Virgin and St. Anthony, and the wooden crosses for the stations of the cross were taken from the old church. Thus the chapel links the present with the past.
Soon after the completion of the new church Father Higney had the old church building re- modelled into the best hall in Newport. In 1918 Father Higney celebrated the twenty-fifth anniver- sary of his ordination by a campaign to wipe out the debt which encumbered the parish. The drive began on August 2 and at the end of the allotted time the teams had collected the desired $75,000 and $12,330 more. So the debt was wiped out. At the present time (1930) the parish numbers about 5,000 souls. There is a Sunday school with an enrollment of 400 pupils. The grammar school takes care of five hundred pupils, and there are one hundred and thirty pupils in the high school.
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