Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . he grocery, grain and hay busi-ness, which he has successfully continued to thepresent time. He was a member of the NewportCity Council in 1892, representing the second wardas second councilman, but declined a re-election,preferring to give his time to his private joined the Newport Artillery, Rhode IslandMiUtia, July 27, 1875, and was elected First Lieute-nant and Quartermaster April 25, 1882, servingthree years in this capacit
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . he grocery, grain and hay busi-ness, which he has successfully continued to thepresent time. He was a member of the NewportCity Council in 1892, representing the second wardas second councilman, but declined a re-election,preferring to give his time to his private joined the Newport Artillery, Rhode IslandMiUtia, July 27, 1875, and was elected First Lieute-nant and Quartermaster April 25, 1882, servingthree years in this capacity. April 28, 1885, hewas elected Major, and held this position threeyears. He was appointed, May 29, 1888, aide-de-camp on Governor Royal C. Tafts personal staff,with the rank of Colonel. He was elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the Newport Artillery August 30, 1892,and Colonel commanding April 24, 1894, which posi-tion and rank he now holds. The Newport Artil-lery is the oldest active military organization in theUnited States. It was organized during the trou-blous time occasioned by the declaration of warbetween England and Spain in 1739, and received. THOMAS P. BARNEFIELD. of the seventeenth century. His father died whenhe was eight years of age, and in 1854, upon thesubsequent marriage of his mother with MartinSnow of North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., MEN OF PROGRESS. 87 he removed to the latter place and was educated inthe public schools of Massachusetts. In 1862 heenlisted as a private soldier in the Thirty-fifth Regi-ment Massachusetts Volunteers, served with hisregiment in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam,Fredericksburg, Vicksburg and Jackson, and wasmustered out of the service at the close of the warwith the rank of First Lieutenant. He removed toPawtucket in 1865, and entered as a student in thelaw office of Hon. Pardon E. Tillinghast, one of thejudges of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Hewas admitted to the bar October 8, 1870, and hassince practiced his
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