Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . eliaC. Spooner; they have no children. Roger Mowry, Edward Inman, John Steere, JohnWhipple, Thomas Harris, Thomas Angell, ThomasArnold, William Wickenden, Richard Scott, JosephJenckes and Banfield Capron. He received hisearly education in the public schools of Providenceand of Sheboygan, Wis., and was fitted for collegein the University Grammar School of entered Brown University in the class of 1857,but was compelled to leave
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . eliaC. Spooner; they have no children. Roger Mowry, Edward Inman, John Steere, JohnWhipple, Thomas Harris, Thomas Angell, ThomasArnold, William Wickenden, Richard Scott, JosephJenckes and Banfield Capron. He received hisearly education in the public schools of Providenceand of Sheboygan, Wis., and was fitted for collegein the University Grammar School of entered Brown University in the class of 1857,but was compelled to leave in the junior year onaccount of ill-health. He was out of college fouryears, during which time he was clerk in a largecommercial house in Buffalo, N. Y., for a part ofthe time, and also taught school in Erie county, N. Y.,and in Rhode Island. He again entered BrownUniversity and graduated in the class of adopted the law as a profession he enteredthe office of the Hon. Samuel Currey of Providenceand studied there until his admission to the RhodeIsland bar. May 14, 1865, supporting himself byteaching school winters. In 1864-65 he was Prin-. E. C. MOWRY. MOWRY, Elisha Capron, attorney-at-law. Provi-dence, was born in what is now North SmithfieldR. I., December 26, 1836, son of Harris Jenckesand Fanny Capron (Scott) Mowry. His ancestorswere English on both sides, and he is descendedfrom the following, who came to Rhode Island withRoger Williams, or were contemporaries with him : cipal of the High School of East Douglass, the civil war he enlisted and served forthree months in the Tenth Rhode Island May 1865 he has practiced law continuouslyin Providence, from January 1879 to January1884 in company with Richard B. Comstock, underthe firm name of Mowry & Comstock, and for thelast three years in company with Livingston Scott, 124 MEN OF PROGRESS. under the firm name of Mowry & Scott. He wasadmitted to the United States Circuit Court bar in1866 an
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