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the whole of Louisiana. IIere, as on the front in Virginia, hc manifested his characteristic ability, energy, cfficiency, and devotion to his country. Ilis success in the army will appear the more honorable when we remember that the Cavalry was the most complicated arm of the service, and of it was required the most constant, severe, and perilous duties. While serving in Louisiana he was often on courts- martial at Thibodeauxville, Camp Parapet, and New Orleans. He was mustered out of the service with his regiment November 29, 1865. Rhode Island had no truer soldier and officer in the war. After the close of the war, he opened a law office in New Orleans, Louisiana, and re- mained in that city one year, but not enjoying the scmi- loyal atmosphere, returned at the close of 1866 to Provi- dence, Rhode Island, where he resumed the practice of his profession with his wonted industry and conscientious- ness. His rank as a lawyer and a citizen, and the appre- ciation of his character and services by the State of Rhode Island, were indicated in April, 1867, by his election to the office of Attorney-General of the State, which he now holds, and the effectiveness and faithfulness with which he has filled this high position, are shown by the fact that he has been re-elected to the office for fourteen successive years. He married, September 23, 1849, Sarah E. C., daughter of Henry Palmer, of Norwich, Connecticut. She died in Providence, Rhode Island, September 29, 1854, leaving a daughter, Clara E. Sayles, who, November 26, 1877, married Thomas S. Gladding, now of New York.
AVIS, LUCIUS D., journalist, son of Norman and Lavina Davis, was born in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, January 21, 1825. During his infancy his parents removed to New Lisbon, Otsego County, in the same State, where he spent most of his early years. At the age of fifteen, desiring better educational advantages than the district school which he was privileged to attend afforded, he left home and went to Peattsburgh, Steuben County, New York, where some of his relatives resided, and entered as a student in Franklin Academy, working morning and evening to pay his board, which through the kindness of his friends he was not obliged to pay in full. From this academy he went to Lima, New York, and entered Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, for the purpose of fitting himself for college. While here he paid his expenses by overwork, mostly in teaching penmanship among his fellow-students; for though since he became an editor his manuscript has often bcen a puzzle to compos- itors on account of its illegibility, he was considered an expert in those days. About this time Mr. Davis united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and decided to pre- pare for the work of the ministry. He made arrangements to enter Dickinson College, but was persuaded by his friends to abandon this purpose and connect himself with the Con- ference. This conclusion being reached, he spent a few
months in Gilbertsville Academy, and in the summer of 1846, when twenty-one years of age, was received into Oneida Conference, then holding its session at Auburn, New York. In March of that ycar he married Mary A. Bennet, whose father, Elnathan Bennct, then in the prime of life, and residing in the suburbs of Buffalo, was one of the early settlers of that town, and had marked its growth from a village of not more than five houses to a city with a population of nearly one hundred thousand. While a member of the Oneida Conference, Mr. Davis oc- cupied several of its most prominent pulpits, spending the allotted term of a Methodist minister at Hartwick, New Hartford, Madison, Manlius, Cortland, and at two churches in the city of Utica. During these years of his ministry in Central New York he wrote frequently for the press, and was the author of several books, some of which were pub- lished without the author's name. His Life in the Itine- rancy and Life in the Laity were widely circulated, and though works of fiction in the ordinary sense of the term, exerted a marked influence on ministers and churches, and in effecting reforms where most needed. He published, also, Creeds of the Churches, The Child in Heaven, His- tory of Methodism in Cortland, and other sketches and pamphlets that were well received. At the close of his pastorate in Utica, the physicians advised a change to the seaboard, on account of the health of his family, and in 1859 he was transferred to the Providence Conference, and stationed at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. Thence he was placed in charge of the parish in Warren, Rhode Island, from which he went to the charge of the First Church in Newport. At the close of his three years' pas- torate here, he asked to have his connection with the Conference severed, having spent twenty years in the min- istry, and served ten churches. Deciding to remain in Newport, Mr. Davis, in connection with Rev. M. J. Talbot, D.D., purchased the Newport Daily News, and engaged in editorial work. About this time he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Wesleyan University. After two years Dr. Talbot retired from the firm, and resumed pastoral work, and Mr. T. T. Pitman succeeded him in the business, which has since been carried on under the firm-name of Davis & Pitman. The Daily News at that time had but a limited circulation, and had not been a finan- cial success. But the number of subscriptions soon began to increase, and a steady growth has been made in its pros- perity ever since. Under the new management the business has been a success, and its present patrons fully equal one- half the number of families in the city, a much larger pro- portion than is usually found. In addition to the daily, a weekly, the Newport Journal, has been established, which has also met with favor, especially in the country towns. Since his permanent settlement in Newport, Mr. Davis has fully identified himself with other interests as well as that of publisher and editor. He organized the Cliff Cottage Association, and built the beautiful summer residences on
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the cliffs; and later, organized the Conanicut Land Com- pany, having previously purchased a large tract of land on Conanicut Island. This is now known as Conanicut Park, a watering-place of growing reputation, which has been from the first under his management. He has also purchased and improved other valuable estates in the city from time to time, and is emphatically a busy man. He has twice been elected to the General Assembly from New- port, and been called to other public positions, most of which he has declined. Though interested in politics, he has had no desire for office, and no time for office-holding. He may properly be called an Independent Republican, as he will not be kept closely within party lines, and is out- spoken in his abhorrence of politicians, who seek merely the loaves and fishes as the chief end of their so-called patriotic action. Since his retirement from the regular work of the ministry he has kept up his interest in the church of his early choice, having served as Sunday-school superintendent, President of the Young Men's Christian Association, and in other positions assigned him. In 1876 he was chosen lay delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Baltimore, which was in session four weeks. The Church sends to this quad- rennial body only one lay delegate to about ten thousand members. During the past few years Mr. Davis has given considerable attention to agriculture and stock-raising, for which he has great enthusiasm. His valuable tract of land near Newport, known as " Conanicut Park Farm," claims all the spare time which his city business will allow. He has just issued a book, entitled Improving the Farm, in which he tells how he has succeeded in making a poor farm into a good one ; and has also been a frequent contributor to agricultural papers. Mr. Davis has had four children, one of whom died in infancy. He has three daughters living, the eldest of whom, Mrs. Pitman, is well known as " Mar- gery Deane," her nom de plume in the newspapers and mag- azines, and as one of the translators of Wonderland, a work published hy the Putnams of New York, which has met with much favor.
m.95 ®LOCUM, COLONEL JOHN S., was born in Richmond, Rhode Island, November 1, 1824, and early in life removed with his family to Bristol, where he ac- quired the rudiments of an education, which he com- pleted at the Fruit Hill and Marlborough Classical Schools, and at a commercial school at Hartford, Connec- ticut. The fondness for military pursuits was developed in him in his youthful days, and when war was declared against Mexico he offered his services to the Government, asking that he might have a commission in the army which was to be raised for the prosecution of the war. When less than twenty-three years of age he was appointed First Lieutenant in one of the ten regiments which were raised in accordance with an Act of Congress passed February
II, 1847. The newly raised regiment joined the army of General Scott, and was in the battles which were fought under that gallant officer, in which the American arms were everywhere victorious. Lieutenant Slocum, as a re- ward of his bravery, obtained the brevet rank of Captain, and for gallant conduct at Chapultepec he secured a com- mission as Captain. The victories of the Americans forced the routed Mexicans to make peace. The regiment with which Captain Slocum had been connected was disbanded, and he returned to Rhode Island, where, as an officer of the army, he was detailed to the recruiting service. Sub- sequently he took command of the Mechanic Rifles. He was one of the Examining Board at West Point in 1860, and made the report of the visitors. When the Civil War commenced a Major's commission was tendered to him by the Governor of the State, which he at once accepted, and took his appointed place in the First Rhode Island Regi- ment, and with it, on the 20th of April, the day after the attack by the Baltimore mob on the Massachusetts Sixth, he was on his way to Washington to protect the threatened capital of the country. When President Lincoln made his first call for troops to serve three years or during the war, a second regiment was raised in Rhode Island, of which Major Slocum was made the Colonel. In the equipment of this regiment the deepest interest was taken by the community. The firm of A. & W. Sprague presented it with a thousand india-rubber blankets, and the citizens of Lonsdale were profuse in their gifts to the hospital depart- ment. Through Colonel Jabez C. Knight the ladies of Providence presented to it an elegant stand of colors. Impressive services were performed in Exchange Place, in Providence, on the eve of the departure of the regiment for Washington. Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island, addressed the soldiers in a speech of earnest, stirring words, and besought for them the blessing and protection of Almighty God. On reaching the place of their destination they encamped in Gales's woods, in the vicinity of Camp Sprague. On the 15th of July, Colonel Slocum broke camp and proceeded to Fairfax Court-house. At the Battle of Bull Run, Sun- day, July 21, the Second Rhode Island Regiment opened the fight, the Colonel bravely leading his troops through the woods to the open ground. General Evans met the advance of the attacking regiment, which under the lead- ership of Colonel Slocum charged bravely upon the foe. In one of the charges he received a shot by which he was mortally wounded. Colonel Burnside in his official report makes this honorable mention of his deceased friend and fellow-officer : " The death of Colonel Slocum is a loss, not alone to his own State, which mourns the death of a most gallant and meritorious officer, who would have done credit to the service, while his prominent abilities as a sol- dier would have raised him high in the public estimation. He had served with me as Major of the First Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteers, and when he was transferred
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to a more responsible position, I was glad that his services had been thus secured for the benefit of his country."
ANDOLPH, REV. WARREN, D.D., Pastor of the Cen- tral Baptist Church, Newport, was born in Piscata- way, Middlesex County, New Jersey, March 30, 1826. His parents were Lewis S. and Hannah (Gil- man) Randolph. He is a lineal descendant of Edward Randolph, who came from England in the early history of the Plymouth Colony, and was afterward Collector and Surveyor of Customs, and also Secretary and Registrar for all the Colonies of New England. Lewis S. Randolph, father of the subject of this sketch, was a man of much in- telligence, often honored with offices of public trust, and served for several terms as a member of the Legislature of New Jersey. He died suddenly, at Chicago, in 1856, leav- ing one daughter and five sons, the three youngest of whom served in the Union Army during the late war. Charles, the second son, has been for several years and is now sec- retary of the Chicago Board of Trade, and was one of the original members of the National Board of Trade, of which for three years he was secretary. Warren, the eldest son, received his academic education at the Perth Amboy Sem- inary, in New Jersey, under the instruction of Messrs. S. S. and G. Woodbridge, after which he graduated at Brown University in 1851, in one of the last classes taught by the late Dr. Francis Wayland. In the summer of the same year Mr. Randolph was ordained a Baptist minister, at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and subsequently became pastor of Baptist churches in Providence, Boston, and Philadelphia, until 1870, when partial failure of health compelled him to suspend active labor. He then went abroad and spent nearly a year in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, re- turning to this country in the autumn of 1871, and soon after became Sunday-school Secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, located in Philadelphia. In discharging the duties of this office Mr. Randolph travelled from New England to Kansas, and from Minnesota to Florida. In the five and a half years thus engaged he went frequently through the South and West. Under his di- rection chiefly the Second National Baptist Sunday-school Convention was held in Cincinnati, in 1872. He also in- duced the American Baptist Publication Society to undertake Sunday-school mission work among the Freedmen, person- ally selecting the first missionaries, and going with them to give counsel and assistance in their work. In 1877 he re- turned to the pastorate, settling then in Indianapolis, Indiana. Preferring New England to the West he returned to Rhode Island, in 1879, and was chosen pastor of the Central Baptist Church of Newport. In 1859 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Madison University, at Hamilton, New York; and in 1864 the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbian College (now Columbian Uni- versity), in Washington, District of Columbia. In 1872 he
was elected a member of the First International Bible Lesson Committee, and was chosen its secretary. At the end of seven years this committee's term expired by limita- tion. A second committee was then chosen for the ensuing seven years, of which he was made a member, and is also its secretary. Its members select the Bible lessons chiefly used by the Sunday-schools of this country, and by many in other parts of the world, the entire number using them being estimated at eight millions. In1 1851 Mr. Randolph married Malvina Dunn, daughter of Alexander Dunn, Esq., of Middlesex County, New Jersey. They have one son and one daughter, Fletcher Randolph and Belle M. Ran- dolph, the former being a member of the extensive printing and publishing house of Baker & Randolph, Indianapolis, Indiana.
FOODBURY, REV. AUGUSTUS, son of Stephen and Betsy (Ray) Woodbury, was born, December 4, 1825, in Beverly, Massachusetts. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of that place. He prepared for the Sophomore class of Harvard Uni- versity at Phillips's Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hamp- shire, and entered the Divinity School, Harvard University, in 1846, from which he graduated in 1849. He was or- dained pastor of the Unitarian Church in Concord, New Hampshire, August 1, 1849, and resigned that position August 1, 1853. He was installed pastor of Lee Street Church, in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 4, 1853, where he continued until March 29, 1857, having resigned in January to accept the pastorate of the Westminster So- ciety, Providence, into which he was installed April 2, 1857, and which he still holds. Mr. Woodbury received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard University in 1866. He has published : Plain Words to Young Men (Concord, N. H., 1858, two editions); The Campaign of the First Rhode Island Regiment (Providence, 1862) ; Major-General A. E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps (Providence, 1867) ; The Second Rhode Island Regi- ment (Providence, 1875). He has also published sermons : We ought to obey God rather than Man ; Religious Growth; Old Age; Who are Evangelical ? Slavery, Past and Pres- ent ; Self-Culture ; Hearing God's Word; Courage; The Son of God Calleth the Dead to Life; Abraham Lincoln ; The President and Congress; Ten Years at Home; Per- sonal Responsibility; Sermon before the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery of Boston, 1869; The Moral Law of Trusts; Aspects and Prospects of Religious Truth; also orations : Character and Influence of American Civiliza- tion, at Lowell, July 4, 1855; The Preservation of the Re- public, at Providence, July 4, 1862; A Citizen Soldiery the True Defence of the Republic, before the First Light In- fantry Veteran Association, Providence, May 11, 1871 ; The Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, at Providence, September 16, 1871; Before the Ninth Army Corps Association, May 13, 1873; also addresses : Before
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the Rhode Island Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Ma- sons, upon different occasions ; Before the Graduating Class of North Granville Seminary, 1857 ; American Life and Liberal Christianity; The Execution of John Brown ; Dedicatory Address, State Normal School, Providence, Jan- uary 23, 1879; also pamphlets and reports : The Camp and Field; Halleck and Burnside; The Penitentiary System of Rhode Island ; The Causes of Crime ; An Historical Sketch of the Prisons and Fails of Rhode Island, and others. He contributed largely to Bartlett's Rhode Island Officers, and has also contributed to The North American Review, Christian Examiner, Monthly Religious Maga- zine, and New Englander. Mr. Woodbury served three months, from April to August, 1861, as Chaplain of the First Rhode Island Detached Militia. He was a member of the House of Representatives, General Assembly of Rhode Island, 1863-64, and again 1874-75. He was Chairman of the Inspectors of the Rhode Island State Prison, 1866-77, and was one of the Commissioners for building the new State Prison, 1874-79. He was Chap- lain, Department of Rhode Island, Grand Army of the Republic, 1872-74, and Chaplain-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1873-75. He was a director of the Providence Athenaeum for sixteen years from 1859, and has been for ten years vice-president, and for three years treasurer of the Providence Charitable Fuel Society, which offices he still holds. He was married to Rebecca Bryant English, of Beverly, Massachusetts, April 8, 1850. Of the marriage there has been no issue.
OWARD, HON. HENRY, ex. Governor of Rhode Island, was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, April 2, 1826. His father, Jesse Howard, for many years a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, was for a quarter of a century treasurer of the People's Savings Bank in Providence, and one of the most influential public men in the State. Governor Howard was educated mainly at the academies of Fruit Hill, Seekonk, and Smith- ville, but finished his education at the University Grammar School in Providence, where he prepared for college. His health becoming seriously impaired, he was obliged to abandon study and enter upon the more active duties of mercantile life. Recovering his health, he entered the law office of ex-Governor William W. Hoppin, and upon being admitted to the bar, followed the practice of the law in conjunction with Governor Hoppin, and then with the late Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes and Hon. Jerome B. Kimball until he returned to mercantile life, in 1858. Since that time he has been engaged mainly in managing the business of the Harris Manufacturing Company, of which he has been president for many years. He was elected a Repre- sentative to the General Assembly from his adopted town, Coventry, in 1857, and again in 1858, but resigned during that year. He was a delegate to the National Republican
Conventions of 1856 and 1876, and was chosen a Presi- dential Elector in 1872. He was elected Governor of the State in 1873, on the Republican ticket, by a very large majority of the votes cast, re-elected without any opposing nomination the next year, but declined a nomination the ensuing year. He filled the executive chair with marked ability. He was designated by the President of the United States as one of the Assistant Commissioners to the indus- trial Exposition at Paris, in 1878, and made an extended and detailed report to the Government of the exhibit of textiles from all countries. He is one of the directors of the National Bank of North America. Governor Howard is not only an eminent manufacturer, but a man of fine in- tellectual attainments, and has superior talent as a writer and lecturer. He has published numerous letters of travel, and has been a frequent contributor to the columns of the Providence Journal and other newspapers, both of prose articles and poetry. He has also displayed considerable ingennity in the application of physics to manufactures. He was married, September 30, 1851, to Catherine G. Har- ris, of Coventry, Rhode Island, daughter of the late Gov- ernor Elisha Harris. His children are : Jessie H., married to Edward C. Bucklin, treasurer of the Harris Manufac- turing Company ; Elisha H., local agent of the mills of the Harris Manufacturing Company ; and Charles T., a recent graduate of Brown University.
NIGHT, ROBERT, manufacturer, son of Stephen and Welthan (Brayton) Knight, was born in Old Warwick, Rhode Island, January 8, 1826. His parents had nine children, Sophia Amelia, Benjamin Brayton, Jeremiah, Mary Briggs, Anna, Robert and Elizabeth (twins), Stephen Albert, and Dexter Newton, all of whom are living, except Anna and Elizabeth, the death of the former having occurred June 16, 1878, and that of the latter November 19, 1868. During Robert's childhood the family removed to Cranston, and at eight years of age he commenced work in the Cranston Print Works, where he remained two years, and then became an employé in the cotton mill in Coventry, owned and operated by Elisha Harris, afterward Governor of Rhode Island. He was employed in this mill until his seven- teenth year, part of the time working fourteen hours a day, for one dollar and twenty-five cents a week. Early in 1843 he went to Providence, and for two years thereafter served as clerk in the store of his brother Benjamin. Sub- sequently, through the aid of a friend, he spent eighteen months at the Pawcatuck Academy, at Westerly, Rhode Island. For the next four months he taught a district school in Exeter, Rhode Island. In 1846 he accepted a position as clerk in the factory store of John H. Clark, at Arnold's Bridge (now Pontiac), Warwick. Upon the elec- tion of Mr. Clark to the United States Senate, the cotton mill and bleachery were leased to Zachariah Parker and
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Mr. Knight for five thousand dollars a year, and on the 4th of October, 1850, Parker & Knight purchased the whole property from Mr. Clark for forty thousand dollars. The next year Mr. Knight bought his partner's interest. When he came into possession of the property he gave to the vil- lage its present name of Pontiac. In February, 1852, he sold one-half of his property and business to his brother Benjamin B., at the same time purchasing one-half of the flour and grain business of the latter in Providence, the firm then taking the name of B. B. & R. Knight. They have since rapidly increased in wealth and influence, and now rank among the largest manufacturers in New Eng- land. They personally supervise their immense business interests, having their general headquarters in Providence. Together with their brother Stephen A. Knight, who owns one-quarter of the stock, they organized the Hebron Man- ufacturing Company, which owns and operates the mills at Hebronville and Dodgeville, Massachusetts, and the Grant Mill at Providence. They also own the bleachery and cotton mill at Pontiac, the White Rock Mill at West- erly, Rhode Island, the Fiskeville Mill at Scituate, Rhode Island, and the mill at Readville, Massachusetts, while they own the controlling interest in the Manchaug Mills at Sutton, Massachusetts, and the Clinton Mill at Woon- socket, Rhode Island. The aggregate capacity of these nine mills is 189,400 spindles, and among their products is the celebrated brand of cloth known as the "Fruit of the Loom," of which over thirty million yards are manu- factured annually. Their bleachery at Pontiac has a ca- pacity of finishing twenty tons of cloth per day. In July, 1853, the firm bought the mill property at Hebronville, Massachusetts. This mill was soon afterward struck by lightning and burned. A substantial brick mill was imme- diately erected, which was put in operation July 1, 1854. At first its capacity was 5000 spindles, which has since been increased to 21,000. In the same year they purchased the mill property at Dodgeville, Massachusetts. The original factory was established in 1809, and known as the Attle- boro Manufacturing Company. They have since rebuilt the mill and increased its capacity to 23,000 spindles. In 1858 they enlarged their bleachery at Pontiac, and in 1863 the stone mill built in 1832 was taken down, and in its place was erected a brick mill, with a capacity of 21,000 spindles. In 1866 they also built at Pontiac a large brick. building, the three lower stories being devoted to the fac- tory store, and the upper story containing a spacious hall for religious and social meetings. The Hebron Mill has 21,000 spindles, the Dodgeville Mill 23,000, and the Grant Mill has a capacity of 9000 spindles, the Manchaug Mill, in which they own the controlling interest, 47,000 spindles, the White Rock Mill 27,400, the Clinton Mill 20,000 spin- dles, the mill at Fiskeville 4000, and the mill at Readville 17,000 spindles. A detailed account of the manufacturing interests of Messrs. B. B. & R. Knight was published in a work entitled Representative Manufacturers of New Eng-
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