The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 22

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978

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Mr. Aldrich was a well-known figure in the pro- essional and official life of the community, but was qually well-known in its club and social circles. He vas a member of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Providence, of which he was president for several ears. He was very active in the work and interests of the club, and was almost always a speaker on the occasion of public banquets. He was also a mem- ber of the Pomham and Wannamoisett Country Clubs.

Clarence Alvern Aldrich married, January 25, 1887, Adeline M. Kennedy, daughter of Alexander and Bethana (Wood) Kennedy, residents of the town of Sterling, Conn. Mrs. Aldrich survives her husband, nd is a resident of Providence.

Mr. Aldrich died in Providence, February 1, 1918. Nothing could better express the place which he held n the esteem of his fellow-citizens than the following xcerpt from a biography of him written shortly after is death:

For one who never occupied any higher office than e, he held an extraordinary place in the regard of his ellow citizens, and was certainly one of the most pop- lar men in the city at that time without regard to olitics or party. He was a disinterested champion of he people, and without fear or favor worked in their nterests and the absolute sincerity of his purpose ould not fail to impress them. There was a certain irect and fearless element in the way that he went fter any object that absolutely disarmed the suspi- ion as to his motives and caused even his bitterest olitical enemies to pay tributes to his essential hon- sty. Altogether he was a man of whom hls city may e justly proud and whose virtues should long dwell n the civic memory.

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The name of the original progenitor of this large amily in America is unfortunately unknown. A Mr. Kennedy and his wife took passage on a ship from England, bound for the New World, in the latter part f the seventeenth century. During the voyage, a ough and stormy one, and while nearing the shores f New England Mrs. Kennedy gave birth to a son, Hugh.

Hugh Kennedy is supposed to have lived most f his life in Connecticut, where his parents settled, ot far from the village of Voluntown. He was a armer. He married, and had a son Alexander.

Alexander Kennedy, son of Hugh Kennedy, was orn in Connecticut, near Voluntown, about 1725. He lived in Voluntown for some time, and married

Mary Edmunds, of that place. Later he removed to Rhode Island and settled in what is now the town of Foster, where he purchased a tract of land of two or three hundred acres, a small parcel of which was in the State of Connecticut. This became the home of the Kennedys of Rhode Island, where Mr. Kennedy's twelve children were born. The homestead remained in the possession of the family until 1870, when it was sold. The children of Alexander and Mary (Edmunds) Kennedy: Alexander, Joseph, William, Joshua, Samuel, George, Hannah, Deborah, Cath- erine, Rachael, Polly, and Betsy. William went West early in life, and established a branch of the family in that part of the country, of which little is known. Joshua and Samuel lived in the eastern part of Con- necticut, had large families, and their descendants are still living. Hannah and Deborah married into the Montgomery family, of Connecticut, and Rachael died a young woman, unmarried. Catherine married Russell Wood, of Connecticut, whose descendants still live in that State. Polly married Thomas Blanch- ard, of Foster, R. I., leaving descendants in Provi- dence. Betsy married Christopher Place, of Foster, R. I., having seven sons. A granddaughter is living near there now.

Captain George Kennedy, the youngest son of Alexander and Mary (Edmunds) Kennedy, was born at the old homestead in Foster, R. I., in 1789. He worked on his father's farm for some time. He mar- ried Celinda, daughter of Thomas and Rosanna (Tyler) Parker, of Foster. He was greatly inter- ested in the militia, attaining the rank of captain. He died at Foster, July 25, 1868, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. His wife died December 8, -, aged seventy-nine years, two months, twenty-five days. Their children: 1. Alexander, mentioned below. 2. Thomas P., born in Jan., 1818, died a year later. 3. William E., born Dec. 11, 1819, died Feb. 25, 1908. 4. Edgar M. 5. George W., born Jan. 21, 1824, died April 5, 1901. 6. Theodore P., born Sept. 10, 1825, died Sept. 3, 1913. 7. Lorenzo M., born June 27, 1827, died Aug. 13, 1896. 8. Eveline R., died Sept. 27, 1830, aged ten months, four days.

Alexander Kennedy, eldest son of Captain George and Celinda (Parker) Kennedy, was born in Foster, R. I., October 26, 1816. He was a farmer. He served in the Civil War. He died May 2, 1873. He married Bethana Wood, daughter of William and Hepsie (Nickerson) Wood. She died December 11, 1899, aged eighty years. She married Mr. Alexander Kennedy when twenty-two years old. They had eight children: 1. Jerome, of Rhode Island. 2. Eveline, died Jan. 5, 1916. 3. Thomas O., died aged twenty- six years. 4. Jane O., died July 28, 1916. 5. Hepsie M., of Providence, married Gilbert Weaver, of Illinois. 6. Adeline M., married C. A. Aldrich. 7. Emily J., of Providence. 8. George A., of Rhode Island.

MICHAEL F. DOOLEY served as national bank cxaminer for Rhode Island and Connecticut, and as a vice-president of the Union Trust Company for a long term of years. In 1908 he became the chief executive of the National Exchange Bank of Provi-

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dence, an institution founded as a State bank in 1801. He is a son of Timothy and Mary (Birney) Dooley.

Michael F. Dooley was born in New Britain, Conn., December 1, 1853. In 1854 the family moved to Hartford, where he obtained his early education. He entered Fordham University in 1868, whence he was graduated, class of 1872, the next two years being spent at St. Supplice, Paris, France. In 1874 he returned to Hartford, where he served in a law office for a time, and shortly after was elected one of the assessors of the city of Hartford, and was chairman of the board for several years, 1880-87. In the latter year he was appointed a national bank examiner and was assigned to duty in the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island, continuing in that position and terri- tory until 1899. He then resigned his position to accept the vice-presidency of the Union Trust Com- pany of Providence, an office he filled until 1908. Hc was then elected president of the National Exchange Bank of Providence, an old and stable institution. He is still president of this bank. He is a member of the University and Turks Head clubs of Providence, and the Catholic Club of New York City.

Mr. Dooley married, in June, 1888, Ellen M. Mc- Manus, of Hartford, Conn. The family home is No. 170 Angell street, Providence.

CHESTER WILLARD BARROWS-Prior to his elevation to the bench of the Superior Court of Rhode Island, in 1913, Judge Barrows had practised law in Providence, beginning with admission to the bar in 1898. He rapidly grew in public favor and rose to position among the best lawyers of that State. Learned in the law, and skillful in its application to the cause in hand, he was unusually successful in his practice, the rewards of his profession coming in honors and material recompence. He brought to the bench a record of brilliant achievement at the bar, and during his five years' service upon the Superior Bench he has added to that record valuable service as a jurist. He is a son of William G. and Lydia S. (Willard) Barrows, of Woonsocket, and a descendant of John Barrows, who settled in Salem, Massachu- setts, in 1637, and founded a family distinguished in Colonial and State history.

Chester Willard Barrows was born in Woonsocket, R. I., July 4, 1872, and there obtained his preparatory education. He entered Brown University, was grad- uated A. B., class of 1895, then in pursuance of a long- formed plan began the study of law at Harvard Law School. He was awarded his degree, LL. B., at grad- uation, class of 1898, was admitted to the Rhode Island bar the same year, and at once opened office in Providence. He practised privately for a time, devoting himself assiduously to the upbuilding of a clientele. The next year, 1899, he was appointed an instructor in law at Brown University, a post he ably filled for four years, when the demands of practice and the duties of his position as referee in bankruptcy compelled him to resign. He was appointed United States referee in bankruptcy in 1900, and held that office continuously until 1913, when he resigned to

accept the higher post. From 1900 until 1913 he w a member of the law firm, Littlefield & Barrows, t firm ranking with the leaders of the Rhode Island b. He withdrew from all connections with the fi when, on February 7, 1913, he was chosen a justice the Superior Court of Massachusetts.

While the law to Judge Barrows is a jealous m .; tress, and he devoted to her services, he has found t! happy medium between service and slavery, and giv! himself up to other interests, public and person Since 1907 he has served Edgewood Free Pub Library as president; is a member of the Americ. Bar Association and interested in the proceedings al its work; Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon are 1 college fraternities, and in the Masonic order he is; master Mason of Harmony Lodge; a companion Providence Chapter; a sir knight of Calvary Cor mandery; and in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Ri; he holds the thirty-second degree. In religion he a Unitarian, in politics a Republican. He is preside of the Economic Club. His preferred recreations a mountain climbing, walking, and occasionally tenn

Judge Barrows married, in Providence, June 20 1899, Mary Etta Crossley, and they are the paren of three children: Doris, Willard C., and Lois Ba rows. The family home is No. 1874 Broad stree Providence.

HON. LUCIUS FAYETTE CLARK GARVIJ M. D .- Twice elected Governor of the State Rhode Island, thirteen times elected to the Gener Assembly as representative, and three times as Sta Senator, such is the record to date of Dr. Luci Fayette Clark Garvin. Although born in the Sta of Tennessee, he is of New England family, h father, a college professor, being in the South ter porarily filling a chair in the East Tennessee Un versity.

Dr. Garvin is a son of James and Sarah Ar (Gunn) Garvin, his father born in Bethel, Vt., in 180 a graduate of Amherst College in 1831, died in Kno: ville, Tenn., June 25, 1846. His wife, Sarah Ar (Gunn) Garvin, born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 181 was the daughter of a physician. She died June 2 1800.

Lucius F. C. Garvin was born in Knoxville, Tenr November 13, 1841, his father, an educator of not being then a professor in East Tennessee Universit: Soon after the death of her husband Mrs. Garvi came from Eastern Tennessee to Sunderland, Mass remaining for a brief time, the journey then takin three weeks to accomplish by wagon, boat and train Later Mrs. Garvin and her son, Lucius F. C., locate in Greensboro, N. C., where he attended privat, school in Greensboro. He completed his colleg preparation at New Gordon, now Guilford College near Greensboro, and in 1858, at the age of sixteen entered Amherst College. He was graduated in 186: a short time prior to attaining his twenty-first yea: and during his last college year taught a winter schoc at Sunderland, Mass. After graduation he taugh a full school term at Ware, Mass. He served i 1862 and 1863 as a private in Company E, Fifty-firs

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Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, com- handed by Colonel A. B. R. Sprague, of Worcester, nd saw service under General Foster, mainly in Castern North Carolina, very near the locality in which he had formerly lived.

After the war Dr. Garvin returned to Massachu- etts, and taught a select school at Leverett, and at he same time privately studied medicine. Early in he year 1864 he came to Pawtucket, as a student of medicine under Dr. Sylvanus Clapp, and from there ntered Harvard Medical College, whence he was raduated M. D. with the class of 1867. During his ist year in medical college he was an interne at Boston City Hospital, ten months in the surgical nd two months in the medical departments. After raduation he at once began practice in Pawtucket, tarting with a debt of $300, which he had borrowed enable him to complete his last year at medical chool. He did not long remain in Pawtucket, but pon moved to Lonsdale, R. I., remaining in his first ocation nine years, until 1876, then moving to his resent location in Lonsdale, which he built. There e has rounded ont more than a half century of medi- al practice, 1867-1918, nearly the entire fifty-one ears having been spent in Lonsdale. He is a mem- er of the Providence and Rhode Island State Medi- al societies, is a physician of skill and devotion, eeply-beloved by a large clientele and highly- steemed.

A Democrat in politics, Dr. Garvin soon forged the front as a leader of his party in his town, and nally became a State leader of the Democracy. His rst political office was town moderator, which office e held in Cumberland in 1881. In 1883 he was elected the lower body of the Legislature, and has served nder thirteen reëlections and three times has been lected State Senator. He was the Democratic candidate or Congress from the Second Rhode Island district, in 894, 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1906, defeated each time, ut always polling a large vote in excess of the nor- al Democratic number. He was elected governor of thode Island in November, 1902, reelected in 1903, 904, 1905, each time the standard bearer of the Democracy advocating proportional representation nd the single tax also the Constitutional initiative as means to those ends. He is a member of the relig- us society of Bell Street Chapel, member of Ballou ost, Grand Army of the Republic, of Central alls, his fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Amherst Chapter.

Dr. Garvin married (first), December 23, 1869, ncy Waterman Southmayd, of Middletown, Conn., ho died January 20, 1892. They were the parents of ree daughters: Ethel, Norma, and Florence. He married (second), April 2, 1907, Sarah Emma Tom- nson, of Lonsdale, R. I. They are the par- nts of two sons: Lucins, born February 2, 1908; and umner, August 6, 1909. The family home is at No. 77 Broad street, Lonsdale.

CHARLES EDWARD ANGELL-From the clos- ng of his school years until the present, Mr. Angell as been engaged in machine work or machine build-

ing, his Providence plant being one of the most mod- ernly-equipped and efficiently-managed. He is a son of that Jeremiah O. Angell, who was known all along the New England coast as a boat builder and yachts- man. He was one of the best known of Narragansett Bay characters, having begun in youth the carrying of pleasure parties in sailing craft. He not only sailed, but designed and built his own boats, rarely owning one by purchase if it was to be sailed by him- self. He was a skillful designer and in the yachts he built, both for himself and others, he embodied new ideas that meant speed and stability, his yachts com- ing first over the finish line so frequently that his col- lection of trophies became valuable. The "North Star," a forty-eight foot sloop-rigged yacht, was his most famous craft, and brought her builder consider- able fame. He was a handsome, hearty, whole-souled man, possessed of many virtues, and a friend to every- body.

Charles E. Angell is a great-grandson of Colonel Israel Angell, a brave officer of the Revolution, and a descendant of Thomas Angell, who came to Provi- dence with Roger Williams. The line of descent from Thomas Angell to Charles E. Angell, of Providence, is through the founder's son, John Angell, and his wife, Ruth (Field) Angell; their son, Hope Angell, and his wife, Lydia (Olney) Angell; their son, Oliver Angell, and his wife, Naomi (Smith) Angell; their son, Colonel Israel Angell, of Revolutionary fame, and his second wife, Susannah (Wright) Angell; their son, Luther Angell, and his wife, Patience (Smith) Angell; their son, Jeremiah Olney Angell, the Narragansett Bay boat builder and vessel owner, and his wife, Maria (Burlingame) Angell; their son, Charles Edward Angell, the engine builder of Provi- dence, whose useful career is the inspiration of this review. Jeremiah Olney Angell, born in North Prov- idence, R. I., July 16, 1820, died in Providence, August 29, 1869. He married Maria Burlingame, daughter of State Senator Lyman Burlingame, of Cumberland, R. I., and his wife, Alpha (Cook) Burlingame.

Charles Edward Angell was born in Providence, May 4, 1865, and continued a resident of his native city until May, 1916, when he removed to his new home in East Providence. After completing his courses of public school instruction, he entered the employ of W. O. Talcott, manufacturer of belt hooks. Simeon Budlong soon afterward became a partner, the firm Talcott & Budlong continuing until January 7, 1885, when that firm dissolved and Mr. Angell with Mr. Budlong organized the firm of Simeon Budlong & Company, their principal place of business, No. 3 Washington street. Four years later, on Jannary I, 1889, they moved to the Billings building, No. 21 Eddy street. Until the removal to Eddy street, belt hook manufacture had been the sole business of the firm, but after the removal to the larger quarters, Mr. Angell added the machine shop, a department of especial interest to him, which gradually absorbed almost his entire time and energy. In 1891 he pur- chased the Budlong interest and for nine years con- ducted both departments, then in 1900 sold his belt

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hook department and has since been the machinist and engine builder.

In March, 1900, after divorcing the two depart- ments of the business, Mr. Angell bought all the pat- terns, engine parts and records of Armington & Sims and of the Eastern Engine companies of Providence, and created from his own shop and these purchases a new business, which has developed into the valu- able enterprise and plant of which Mr. Angell is the sole owner and manager. In March, 1908, the Billings block burned and necessitated Mr. Angell securing larger quarters, so in May, 1908, he removed to No. 223 Aborn street, his present location. Engines and high-grade machinery is the plant's specialty, and nothing is lacking in perfection of equipment and efficiency of management to produce the finest of machines and engines. Mr. Angell is a business man of strong quality, and has few interests outside his own business which he has built up from the small beginning as a department of Simeon Budlong & Company. He has won high reputation in the line of activity he has pursued from youth, and is one of the real factors in community progress. Mr. Angell is a Democrat in his political faith, but is independent in action. He is a member of the Rhode Island Branch of the Society of the Cincinnati through descent from Colonel Israel Angell, an original member. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of other organizations.

Mr. Angell married, May 18, 1892, in Worcester, Mass., Evelyn E. Munroe, of Worcester.

PRESCOTT TILLINGHAST HILL-In the homestead of Providence, in which he maintains his office and practices his profession, Dr. Hill was born. His father, Dr. Lester Seneca Hill, long lived and prac- ticed his profession, father and son both eminent phy- sicians, but not contemporaries at any time. Dr. Hill descends from the ancient Rhode Island family founded by Jonathan Hill, one of the numerous pioneers of this family in New England prior to 1660. But little is known of Jonathan Hill further than that he lived in Portsmouth, Warwick, and elsewhere in Rhode Is- land, and that he died in 1690, leaving sons: Robert, Jonathan, Henry and others

Dr. Lester Seneca Hill died in Providence, R. I., after a useful and successful career, September 7, 1907. He served four years in the Civil War with both light and heavy Rhode Island batteries, and in after years served his fellowmen as an agent of healing instead of de- struction. His career as a physician was a long and honorable one, and he was held in the highest esteem. He was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and through his patriotic ancestry gained ad- mission to the Sons of the American Revolution and other societies in which war service or Colonial an- cestry is the basis of membership. Dr. Lester Seneca Hill married Elfrida Elnora Remington, of ancient Rhode Island family, she also deceased.

Prescott Tillinghast Hill was born in Providence, R. I., at No. 225 Broad street, now his residence and office, August 10, 1805. He completed graded and high school courses, finishing with graduation, class of 1902, going thence to Brown University, whence he was graduated

A. B., class of 1906. Choosing his father's profession, he entered Harvard Medical School, and in 1911 was awarded his M. D. with the class of that year. The, following two years were almost entirely spent in the General Hospital, Hartford, Conn., as a member of the staff, Dr. Hill specializing and concentrating his study on pulmonary cases. In 1913 he returned to his native, city and to the house of his birth, and there he has since practised his profession, the second Dr. Hill to occupy the same offices and to win a high place in public es- teem. In addition to his private practice he is visiting physician to St. Elizabeth's Home; assistant visiting physician to the medical out-patient department of Providence City Hospital; visiting physician to the pulmonary department of the Providence City Hos- pital; visiting physician to Lakeside Home, and ex- terne in the pulmonary out-patient department of Rhode Island Hospital. He also examines for the Aetna, New England Mutual and the State Mu- tual Life Insurance companies, and has a great deal of special practice in pulmonary diseases. He is a mem- ber of the Rhode Island and Providence Medical asso- ciations; the Providence Medical Literary Association ; Orphans Lodge, No. 36, Free and Accepted Masons; Grace Protestant Episcopal Church; and is a Repub- lican in politics. His fraternity is Beta Theta Pi, of Brown University, his club the Central of Providence

Dr. Hill married, December 27, 1909, Eva Fenner, of Providence, they the parents of a daughter, Marjorie Howland, born November 24, 1910.

PATRICK JOSEPH MCCARTHY-"A true friend, a warm-hearted, clear-headed, helpful man, and a loyal, patriotic American." So spoke a citizen of Providence of Patrick J. McCarthy, ex-mayor of tha city, an executive, who, fearless in the discharge of his duty and in his disregard of party, won universal com- mendation for his administration of civic affairs during his two terms as mayor of Providence. As a lawyer he has been successful, enjoying the esteem of the court and the bar. His Providence residence began ir 1863, and thirteen years later he graduated from the machine shop to the practice of law, having gained hi! first knowledge of the law from self study of Black. stone and Kent, while yet being employed at his trade He financed his own law course through Harvard, and when awarded his LL. B., class of 1876, he returned to Providence, and there has won high standing as lawyer public official, and citizen. His start in life was no conspicuous, both parents dying at the end of the voy age to the United States, from Ireland, the orphaned infant being cared for by a Boston Benevolent Society connected with the Roman Catholic Cathedral. But thi handicap was overcome, and he grew to manhood filler with a laudable ambition to rise in the world. Every thing he did was toward that end, and he laid the good foundation of a common English education upon which to build his future. He was fortunate in his associa tions and to Professor Charles Eliot Norton's (o Harvard University) kindly interest Mr. McCarth traces the desire and aspirations toward a higher, bette plane of life. But no circumstance nor associatio could furnish the motive power whch drove the la onward, that came from within, and to his own forc

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character, courage and initiative he owes the posi- on he now holds at the bar, and in the regard of his llowmen.

Patrick Joseph Mccarthy, youngest of the seven sons f Patrick and Alice (Cullen) McCarthy, was born in ounty Sligo, Ireland, in 1848, and when an infant as brought to the United States by his parents. Ere le ship landed in Boston, and while yet in quarantine t Deer Island, in the harbor, both parents died, and the oung child was taken in care by strange but loving earts. Until eight years of age he was in the care of e Society which took him, then from that age until ourteen years he attended a day school in the winter cason in Somerville, Mass., and for a few years at- ended night school at old Cambridge, the latter school aving been established by Professor Norton, and asso- ates, one of whom was Charles William Eliott. of Harvard University. To this school in Cambridge work- ig boys of Somerville, were admitted, and the boy ladly availed himself of the opportunities it offered im, both in tuition and association. At the age of wenty he moved to Providence, R. I., where he resided with his eldest brother John, while learning a trade. fter accumulating a small capital, he became ambitious go into business on his own account, and as a pre- minary he made occasional investments in real estate. fe was so uniformly successful that he decided to ake real estate operating his life work. To fit himself etter for that business, he decided to acquire some nowledge of real estate law, and began the study of tandard authorities, Blackstone, Kent and Washburn. is he progressed in his study the ambition to become lawyer seized him, and all thought of real estate was ost. After reaching a certain point of study, and hav- ng accumulated the necessary funds he entered Harvard aw School, and was graduated LL. B., class of 1876. Vith his newly acquired degree Mr. McCarthy returned Providence, was admitted to the Rhode Island har, egan practice at once, and was established in public avor in a very short time. He has since been admitted all Federal courts of the district, and to the United States Supreme Court, his practice now extending to 11 of these courts. Professionally he ranks high, and e is a powerful advocate of any cause to which he llies himself. He has no taste for criminal law practice. Ie is a member of the local and State bar associations, attorney for the Clear Title Land Company, In- orporated, transacting his legal business from offices Jos. 505 and 506 Westminster street.

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The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 22

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn Publication date: 1920 Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society Number of Pages: 978

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978