Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ber 6, 1851, son of Rev. Ebenand Mary (Hunnewell) Francis. The Francisfamily is of old New England stock, RichardFrancis having settled in Cambridge, Mass., in theearly part of the seventeenth century, and diedthere on March 24, The family were promi-nent in Medford, Beverly and Cambridge, andserved with distinction in the Revolutionary received his early education in the commonschools and adopted banking as a business. In1870
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ber 6, 1851, son of Rev. Ebenand Mary (Hunnewell) Francis. The Francisfamily is of old New England stock, RichardFrancis having settled in Cambridge, Mass., in theearly part of the seventeenth century, and diedthere on March 24, The family were promi-nent in Medford, Beverly and Cambridge, andserved with distinction in the Revolutionary received his early education in the commonschools and adopted banking as a business. In1870 he became a clerk in the Woonsocket NationalBank. He is now assistant cashier and member ofthe board of investment of the Woonsocket Insti-tution for Savings. He has held numerous officesof trust and honor. He was Colonel on the per-sonal staff of Gov. A. H. Littlefield. in 1880-81-82. He has been an assessor of taxes for Woon-socket since 1885, was a member of the CourtHouse Commission in Woonsocket in 1891, andwas elected Senator in the General Assembly fromWoonsocket in 1894-95. He is a thirty-seconddegree Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the. E. CHARLES FRANCIS. Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the Sons ofthe American Revolution, and an associate memberof Smith Post, G. A. R In politics he is a Repub-lican. He married, October 20, 1886, Miss GertrudeA. Nourse ; they have no children. MEN OF PROGRESS. 33 GOFF, Isaac Lewis, President and Director ofreal estate and investment companies, Providence,was born in Taunton, Mass., August 29, 1852, sonof David F. and Clarissa D. (Stacey) Goff. He isof English descent and his ancestors were amongthe first settlers of New England in the Old of his ancestors on both the paternal and ma-ternal side were in the military service of theColonies during the war of the Revolution. He re-ceived his early education in the common schoolsof Rehoboth, Mass., and at Bryant & StrattonsCommercial College in Providence. He entered
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