Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . Naval and Mili-tary Club of London. In politics he was stronglyRepublican in principles, but independent in hisfollowing of party candidates. He was married,November 19, 1877, to Miss Clara Dennison,daughter of Samuel Foster, a prominent manu-facturer of Providence, now living at the age ofninety-two years ; they had four children : Crawford,Ella Clarke, Sarah Senter and Churchill SenterAllen. ANTHONY, James, Sheriff of Newport County,was b


Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . Naval and Mili-tary Club of London. In politics he was stronglyRepublican in principles, but independent in hisfollowing of party candidates. He was married,November 19, 1877, to Miss Clara Dennison,daughter of Samuel Foster, a prominent manu-facturer of Providence, now living at the age ofninety-two years ; they had four children : Crawford,Ella Clarke, Sarah Senter and Churchill SenterAllen. ANTHONY, James, Sheriff of Newport County,was born in Middletown, R. I., November 6, 1840,son of George and Margaret (Hathaway) was educated in the public schools, and wastrained to the avocation of farming, which he hassuccessfully followed. He has served in public lifeas a member of the School Committee and TownCouncil of Middletown. as Representative to theGeneral Assembly, and as Sheriff of Newport County, which office he now holds. In politics heis a Republican. Mr. Anthony is a member ofCoronet Council, No. 63, Royal Arcanum, and ofAquidneck Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Mid-. -^ JAMES ANTHONY. dletown. He was married, February 24, 1869, toMiss Charlotte S. Coggeshall; they have two chil-dren : Arthur R. and Alfred C. Anthony. ATVVOOD, Henry Clinton, Providence, wasborn in the village of Williamsville, Killingly, Conn.,February 12, 1856, son of William A. and CarolineA. (Hargraves) Atwood. His education was ac-quired in the Williamsville grammar and Danielson,Conn., high schools, the Friends School and Uni-versity Grammar School of Providence, and atBrown LTniversity, from which he graduated in1878. Following graduation he had charge of theWilliams\ille Manufacturing Companys store until1881, when he assumed the position of Superin-tendent of the companys mills. In 1886 he wasmade Agent and Superintendent, and in 1890 be-came Treasurer, Agent and Superintendent, inwhich capacity he has served until the p


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