The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 27

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. San Souci, in addition to his large business in- terests and duties as president of the company, has long taken an active part in city affairs. For twenty- one years he was a member of the school board, resign- ing from that body in 1912. He represented Ward Ten, in Common Council, for two years, and was chairman of the executive committee of the Ward Committee

until press of business caused his resignation. He is a member of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, the Catholic Club of Providence, the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the For- esters of America, Sons of Veterans, charter member, ex-president and treasurer of the Olneyville Business Men's Association, the Knights of Columbus, and the Warwick Club.

Joseph O. San Souci married, in Providence, R. I., June 15, 1880, Sarah G. Lynch, daughter of James and Sarah (Markey) Lynch, her parents both born in Ire- land. Mr. and Mrs. San Souci are the parents of five children : 1. Paul A., born Feby. 3, 1886, a graduate of Classical High School, Providence, and Amherst Col- lege, A. B., class of 1910; at high school and college he ranked high in athletics, was captain and pitcher of the high school baseball team, member of the hockey team in both high school and college, member of the high school football team, and of the college baseball team; he is now engaged in business with J. O. San Souci & Company, in official position. 2. George E., born Nov., 1889; a graduate of high school and a former hockey and baseball player, now enlisted in the United States Navy, serving at Newport. 3. Joseph O., Jr., a graduate of Holy Cross College, A. B., class of 1913, and a mem- ber of Battery C, One Hundred and Third Regiment, Field Artillery, Twenty-Sixth Division, from Rhode Island, serving in France; he was advanced to the rank of corporal, accompanied the Battery to France, saw hard service, and in August, 1918, returned to the United States, having been detailed for training officer at the military camps. 4. Sadie Louise, born Nov., 1897; a graduate of Bay View Seminary and Sacred Heart Academy. 5. Claire Marie, born Aug. 23, 1901 ; now a student at Child's Business College, Providence. The family home is at No. 4 Claremont avenue, Providence.

JAMES ALPHONSE McCANN, M. D., was born in Providence, R. I., September 27, 1881, a son of John and Mary A. (McDermott) McCann, both resi- dents of Providence. There he completed public school courses of study, finishing with graduation from high school with the class of 1900, his courses being marked by good scholarship and punctual attendance. He early decided upon medicine as his profession, and after attending high school passed to Brown University, whence he was graduated Ph. B., class of 1904. This completed his collegiate courses, and the same year he entered the medical department of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., and from that famed insti- tution was graduated M. D., class of 1908. After graduation Dr. McCann returned to Providence, and until 1911 was interne at Providence Lying-In-Hos- pital, then beginning private practice, specializing in obstetrics. He is connected with the staff of Rhode Island Hospital, is assistant physician and secretary to the staff of Providence City Hospital, all in addi- tion to his own private practice. He is a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the various medical societies of the city and State, and in politics an Independent.

Dr. McCann married, October 6, 1913, Rebecca F. Mahoney, of Providence. His home and offices are at No. 142 Francis street, Providence.

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HENRY DARLING HEYDON-In business life president of the Central Real Estate Trust Company of Providence, and in public life superintendent of the Rhode Island State Armory, Henry D. Heydon is rounding ont a life of great usefulness to his State, beginning as postmaster in Crompton, R. I., in 1883, and continuing through both branches of the State Legislature and in many public positions. He is the only son of David (4) and Jemima C. (Johnson) Hey- don, descending through David (3), David (2), and David (1) Hayden, the last named a great-great-grand- son of Lieutenant William Hayden, who came from England to New England in the ship "Mary and John," first appearing at Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. He was one of the early Indian fighters, serving with Captain Mason in the Pequot War, 1637, for which he was granted land in Hartford, Conn. He moved to Wind- sor, Conn., about 1643, and in 1667 was a deputy to the General Court from the town of Kenilworth (Killing- worth), Conn. The line is through his son, Lieutenant Daniel Hayden, who retained the Hayden home in Windsor, was selectman, commissioner and lientenant, serving in King Philip's War. He married Hannah Wilcoxson. Their son, Ebenezer Hayden, inherited a part of the original homestead, resided in Windsor, Conn., the greater part of his life, but removed to Har- winton, Conn., where he died. He married Mindwell Griswold, and they were the parents of David (I) Hayden, of Harwinton, who married Dorothy Allen. The line descends through David (2) Hayden, of Har- winton, Conn., and Angelica, N. Y., and his wife, Jemima (Ellsworth) Heydon; their son, David (3) Heydon, of Greenbush, N. Y., and his son, David (4) Heydon.

David (4) Heydon, father of Henry Darling Hey- don, was born in Greenbush, N. Y., March 2, 1822, died in Centerville, R. I., in 1904. At an early age he became a cotton mill worker in New York, coming to Rhode Island in early manhood, and after a short time spent in Phenix, located at Woonsocket, where he was a foreman of spinning in the Burnham mill. Years later he engaged in the retail boot and shoe business in Prov- idence, but later moved to Killingly, Conn., where he was superintendent of a mill until his retirement. He lived in East Killingly, retired, until his death, at the age of eighty-three years. He married, in 1849, Jemima C. Johnson, who died in 1903, and is buried in the Crompton Cemetery.

Henry Darling Heydon was born December 25, 1851, in the town of Coventry, R. I. Woonsocket became the family home in 1860, and in that city and in Mt. Pleas- ant Academy, Providence, he prepared for the business of life. He began as a grocer's clerk in Providence, and later was engaged in business at Olneyville, R. I., and until 1874 was manager of an established business there. In that year he moved to Crompton, R. I., to become manager or receiver of a business which had fallen into the hands of its creditors. About one year later he formed a partnership with Daniel W. Batch- elder, purchased the business he had been managing, and together they conducted it very successfully until 1904. when the business was sold and the firm dissolved. His connection with the Central Real Estate Company of Providence began as a director about 1898, and since

June 3. 1916, he has been its executive head. He was a director of the Second National Bank, United National Bank, and of the Central Trust Company, all of Provi- dence. He was in business in Centerville, R. I., from 1903 until 1908.

From the time Mr. Heydon became a permanent resi- dent of Crompton, R. I., he manifested a deep interest in the welfare of the town, and in every way possible aided in promoting the public good. Crompton is located in the town of Warwick, and as a member and chairman of the school board of the town he served many years, beginning in 1883. The same year he was appointed postmaster at Crompton, and for five years he served the town of Warwick as auditor. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, was again elected in 1888, and was suc- cessively re-elected until 1899. He was a member and for six years chairman of the committee on finance, and when elected State Senator in April, 1900, was ap- pointed a member of the same Senate committee. He also served as chairman on committees on unfinished business and public institutions. He served upon Gov- ernor Taft's staff with the rank of colonel and with the same rank upon the staff of Governor Ladd during his two terms as governor. He was a member of the com- mittee appointed to purchase a permanent camp ground for the State National Guard, and of a committee to procure a site for a new armory in Providence. Since 1913 he has been superintendent of the armory, built upon the site he aided in selecting. It is a matter of interest that in 1885 he introduced the bill under which the Legislature gave authority to build the armory, which, however, was not completed until 1908. He has been a member of and secretary of the board of exam- iners of the Rhode Island State Normal School, is president of the board of trustees of the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf, and holds the same relation to the Home for Aged in Providence. This record of pub- lic service in varied positions covers a period of ahout forty years, and village, town, city and State has ben- efited through his devoted public spirit and service.

Colonel Heydon was made a Mason in Matichester Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons, Coventry, R. I., a lodge of which he is a past master, In Capitu- lar Masonry he is a past high priest of Landmark Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, of Warwick; in Cryptic Masonry a member of Providence Council, and in Templar Masonry a Sir Knight of St. John's Com- mandery of Providence. He is also an Odd Fellow of Manufacturers Lodge, Olneyville, a member of the Economic and Players clubs of Providence, and of Grace Episcopal Church in Providence, but formerly was a vestryman of St. Philip's Church.

Colonel Heydon married, March 16, 1880, Charlotte A. Booth, daughter of Wright and Jane G. (Bradley) Booth, of Crompton, R. I., her father born in 1826, died in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Heydon are the parents of two sons: I. Howard Raymond, born in Warwick, R. I., January 22, 1883, a graduate of the English and Classical High School, Providence, and of Brown University, A. B., class of 1005; studied music in Germany, and is a composer of music for string instruments; he began business life with the National Rubber Company of Bristol, R. I., going thence to St. Louis, Mo., as sales

Stury . Haydon

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manager for the Worth, Heimer & Swarts Shoe Com- any, now secretary of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, located at Newark; he is also chief of he publicity department of the Red Cross work relative o the maintenance and teaching of trades to invalided ind disabled soldiers; he married Elsa Swarts, daugh- er of Charles Swarts, of St. Louis. 2. Wright David, born in Warwick, R. I., March 3, 1890; was educated n Crompton schools, Hope High School, Providence, nd Worcester Academy, Worcester, Mass., class of 907. Brown University, A. B., 1911; for a short time le was with the Industrial Trust Company, then for ne year with G. L. and H. I. Gross, later for two years vas with the American Surety Company of New York, n the Providence office, and is now manager for the Fidelity Insurance Company.

ARTHUR HUDSON HARRINGTON, M. D .- Before beginning his long connection with the State in- titutions of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Dr. Harrington spent two years in private practice in Prov- dence. After years spent in institutional service in Massachusetts and New York he came to Rhode Island 1 1907, and has since been superintendent of the Hos- ital for Mental Diseases, located at Howard, R. I., ne of the philanthropic institutions maintained there y the State. For thirty-five years Dr. Harrington has een prominent in State hospital work, and he is one f the acknowledged authorities on mental diseases, is study and research, combined with his wide exper- ence, completing a perfect equipment to cope with the isordered mind or body, Dr. Harrington has sacri- ced a successful career as a private practitioner in rder to devote himself to his specialty in these various istitutions. Had he devoted himself to private practice is success financially would have been remarkable, for rofessionally he is an exception and has a remarkable ersonality.

He is a grandson of Dr. Loammi Harrington, born in 780, died in 1840, a physician and a surgeon in the merican army during the War of 1812. After the war e practised his profession in Paxton, Mass. Dr. Lo- mmi Harrington was the father of Loammi (2) Har- ngton, a merchant of Worcester, Mass., who married usan F. Waite, of an ancient New England family, a escendant also of the Lakin family of New England. Arthur Hudson Harrington, son of Loammi (2) and usan F. (Waite) Harrington, was born in Worcester, [ass., July 25, 1856. He completed the courses of iblic school study with graduation from Worcester igh School in 1875, and from high school he passed Brown University, whence he graduated with the egree of A. B., with the class of 1879. Deciding upon e profession of medicine he entered Jefferson Medical ollege, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and there was varded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1882. rom 1882 until 1884 Dr. Harrington practiced medicine Providence, R. I., after which he accepted appoint- ent as assistant superintendent at the State Hospital, anvers, Mass., there remaining ten years, gaining luable experience in the management of such an in- itution and in the demands which were made upon ¡ medical staff. In 1894 he was appointed medical

director of the State Hospital at Bridgewater, Mass., remaining in that relation for four years, then return- ing to the State Hospital at Danvers as superintendent. He continued in the superintendency at the latter hos- pital for five years, 1898-1003, after which he accepted appointment as superintendent of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York City, and there spent four years, closing his connection with that institution in 1907, and beginning his connection with the Rhode Island Hospital for Mental Diseases at Howard. This post he has held continuously from that year until the present (1918). There he has the welfare and care of about fifteen hundred patients, devolving upon him, and it is the highest eulogy which can be pronounced upon his management to simply note the fact that he has continued in office year after year as the most fitting man for the position.

Nor is Dr. Harrington's valuable service confined to the State of Rhode Island alone. He has contributed to the medical journals, and through them has reached a world-wide audience, the topics of his articles mental and nervious diseases, hospital construction, equipment and management. To the work of a facile pen he has added that of an eloquent public speaker, and on these same subjects he had delivered many addresses before public audiences gathered to discuss them from the view point of the best authority. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Medico-Psy- chological Society, New England Society of Psychiatry, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rhode Island Medical Society, and Rhode Island Medico- Legal Society. His college fraternity is Delta Kappa Epsilon ; his club the University of Providence; his church the Protestant Episcopal.

Dr. Harrington married. September 7, 1906, May L. George, daughter of James Newell George. By a former marriage Dr. Harrington has a son, Dr. Clifton Ward Harrington, now a practicing physician and surgeon of Everett, Massachusetts, and a daughter, Ethel, the wife of Jean Pierre de Botassi, of Athens, Greece; she is a professional soprano singer of international reputation.

EDWARD LAWRENCE LEAHY-Although a member of the Rhode Island bar since 1908, Mr. Leahy is one of the young members of that bar numbering in years, but a veteran in practice, for he began practice at the age of twenty-two years in 1908-ten years hav- ing elapsed since he pleaded his first cause. He is a son of John L. and Ann (Murphy) Leahy, his father yet a prosperous farmer of Bristol, R. I.

Edward Lawrence Leahy was born in Bristol, R. I., February 9, 1886. He attended the public schools of Bristol, completing the course with graduation from high school, class of 1904. He spent the next year in academic course study at Brown University, going thence to Georgetown University Law School, Washing- ton, D. C., there continuing until awarded his LL.B. with the class of 1908. With his newly-acquired dignity he returned to Rhode Island, was admitted to the bar in October of the same year, located in Providence, and is now well established, practising in all State and Fed- eral courts of the district, his offices at No. 704 Gros- venor building, having been associated since admission

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to the bar with the firm of Fitzgerald & Higgins. He is a member of the Rhode Island State Bar Association, and thoroughly respected by his brethren of the pro- fession. Mr. Leahy is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church of Bristol, is ex-State advocate and past grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, an ex-president of the Bristol Improvement Association, and in politics a Democrat. In 1910 he was elected judge of probate for Bristol, and has been reelected annually ever since. He is a former member of the General Assembly and of the Bristol School Committee. All his interests except his law practice are centered in Bristol, and there he is best known and most highly esteemed. He has been fond of athletics since boyhood days, making the freshman baseball team at Brown, "Varsity" basketball team and Varsity rowing crew at Georgetown. He retains his love and interest in these sports and in all other health- ful recreations.

Mr. Leahy married, February 15. 1913, Fern Dixon, of Bristol, daughter of former State Senator and Mrs. Ezra Dixon. They are the parents of a daughter, Vir- ginia, born August 29, 1915, and a son, Edward Law- rence, Jr., born March 24, 1918.

JOSIAH S. PACKARD-Although the J. S. Pack- ard Dredging Company is a New Jersey corporation, its principal place of business is Providence, R. I., their operations extending from New York harbor to the coast of Maine. The business was founded in 1878 by Josiah S. Packard, who conducted the business with his brother until 1899 as a private enterprise. During that period he did a great deal of harbor work of a con- structive nature, but then he organized the J. S. Pack- ard Dredging Company, incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $50,000. He located at Providence shortly afterward and continued active in the business until his death. With his passing, his son, Ambrose Packard, who had literally grown up in the business, succeeded him, and is now president of the J. S. Packard Dredging Com- pany, and president of the Packard Hydraulic Dredg- ing Company, the latter a subsidiary company. The officers of the parent company are: Ambrose Packard, president ; C. C. Wheeler, vice-president ; and Kirke W. Packard, secretary-treasurer; these constituting the board of directors.

When the company began business, ten employees, one dredge, and three scows comprised the plant and working force. They now employ one hundred men, own three powerful tugs, five modern dredges of large capacity, and twenty scows. They are constantly en- gaged in harbor dredging and improvement somewhere along the Atlantic coast from New York north. In their particular field they are in the highest rank, and the only company of importance in Providence engaged in this business.

The Packard family is an ancient one in New Eng- land, and in the Revolution many of the name are found on the side of the Colonies. On the Woodruff side descent is traced from French and English ancestors dating to earliest days of the seventeenth century. The family is a numerous one in New England, particularly

in Eastern Massachusetts, and wherever Packards a found they are men and women of energy and ente prise.

Samuel Packard and his wife with one child car from Wymondham, Southeastern England, in the sh "Diligent," and settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1638. is believed that the name was originally Picard. the early Colonial records the name is written Pack and Pickard, but by the family has generally been wr ten Packard. Samuel Packard lived at Hingham a fe years, then moved to Weymouth, thence to the Wel Parish in Old Bridgewater, where he made permane, settlement and founded his homestead, and in the wor of the family poet :

Ere long he sought a settlement and home in O Bridgewater,

And there he found beside a home a husband for } daughter; He must have been a man of worth, though not a mi of wealth,

He left his children all no doubt good counsel am good health;

His office, held in church and state, he doubtless us them well,

A breach of faith or trust reposed no record lives tell: He died a Christian, full of years, and burial was wi care.

Few annals live to tell the tale of when, or how, where.

Josiah S. Packard through both his father and } mother was descended from eight members of the Ma flower company, including John Alden and Priscil

Josiah S. and Margaret E. (Woodruff) Packard we the parents of three sons: Ambrose, Josiah Woodru and Kirke White Packard; and daughters: Elizabe married C. C. Wheeler; Mary Secord; Rhoda Grac Sara DeVeaux Packard.

Ambrose Packard, son of Josiah S. and Margaret (Woodruff) Packard, was born in Niagara Fal N. Y., March 2, 1870. He was brought to Providend R. I., in youth, and there was educated in the pub; schools, finishing with graduation from high school 1888. He then spent three years at the Massachuse Institute of Technology, leaving the Institute in 1891 ; enter business life as his father's associate in his dred ing and harbor construction work, and soon becar a partner in the J. S. Packard Dredging Compal, Upon the death of Josiah S. Packard in 1911, Ambre Packard succeeded him as president of the compar He is also president of the Packard Hydraulic Drec ing Company. He is a man of strong character a great energy, his business, one calling for quick decisio clear vision and great courage. That he has been successful is a tribute to the father who founded 1 business, and to the sons who have developed and € tended it to its present proportions. He married He Imbrie, daughter of William Morris and Helen (C. rie) Imbrie, both of Scotch ancestry.

HARRY BROADMAN, M. D., was born Aug I, 1882, a son of Atwood and Laura Broadman, nati. of Russia, who came to America in 1895, and loca in Philadelphia. He attended the public schools Philadelphia, then financed his own way through p paratory school, his ambition urging him onward to professional education. He finally decided upon

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medical profession, and by hard work he earned the money which secured him admission to Jefferson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, one of the famed medical col- leges of the United States. He there literally worked his way through, paying his own bills from his earn- ings, and in 1910 was graduated with the degree M. D. Dr. Broadman then spent two years in hospital prac- tice, serving as a member of the medical staffs of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Jewish Maternity Hospital, both of Philadelphia; and the Home for Invalids at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He then located in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is well established in private practice, with an office at No. 140 Orms street.

Dr. Broadman is highly regarded by his professional brethren with whom he is affiliated in the American Medical Association, Rhode Island Medical Society, and the Providence Medical Society. In social frater- iity he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. He is ndependent in political action, striving to express hrough his ballot his high sense of citizenship and his conception of the duties pertaining thereto. He is un- narried.

ROBERT LINTON is rounding out a long life of usefulness as a paper manufacturer, a line of work with which he has been associated for about forty ears. Linton Brothers, a firm of which he was one of the original members, were the first makers of a coated paper stock to stand printing and waterproofing ests, and the firm soon became well-known makers of i perfectly surfaced paper made especially for fine hair ine effects required by modern printers in both litho- graph and half-tone printing. Mr. Linton's knowledge of the manufacture of cardboard, glazed and litho- graphed papers, is complete, and his long experience in his line of manufacture enabled him to acquire a sys- em that few paper manufacturers in the country pos- essed.

Robert Linton, son of Hugh and Agnes ( Mitchell) ,inton, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1843, and when a lad was brought to the United States by his parents, who settled in Pawtucket, R. I. He was edu- :ated in the public schools of Pawtucket, and when his chool days were over he began his long connection vith cardboard manufacture. He continued in this business as an employee until 1870, becoming an expert n the different processes. In the latter year, in associa- ion with his brothers, Hugh and James, and a fourth partner, Edward Jollie, he organized the firm, Linton Brothers, beginning paper coating at a plant on Front treet. They were the first coaters of paper stock to tand the hard test that printing and waterproofing im- posed. The company continued a successful business intil Robert and Hugh Linton withdrew to start a simi- ar business for themselves. His life has been a normal, [utiet one, his business and his home being the two great interests that have fully filled his life. He is a Republican in politics, and an attendant of the services f Park Place Congregational Church.

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The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 27

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