Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . PHILO E. THAYER, Island Universalist Club, the Pawtucket BusinessMens Association, and the Garfield Club of thelast named city. In politics he is a was married, March 7, 1866, to Miss GeorgiannaF. Arnold; they have two children : Annie L. andHattie M. Thayer. TARBOX, Otho, Superintendent of Schools atWest Greenwich, was born in West Greenwich, R. I.,April 5, 1863, the son of David 2d and Sally M.(Cleaveland) Tarbox. He receive
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . PHILO E. THAYER, Island Universalist Club, the Pawtucket BusinessMens Association, and the Garfield Club of thelast named city. In politics he is a was married, March 7, 1866, to Miss GeorgiannaF. Arnold; they have two children : Annie L. andHattie M. Thayer. TARBOX, Otho, Superintendent of Schools atWest Greenwich, was born in West Greenwich, R. I.,April 5, 1863, the son of David 2d and Sally M.(Cleaveland) Tarbox. He received his early edu-cation in the public schools of West Greenwich andattended East Greenwich Academy the fall andwinter terms of 1883-84. He has followed thevocation of farming, and has been honored with a number of public offices at the hands of his fellow-townsmen. He was elected, May 28, 1894, a mem-ber of the Town Council and of the School Com-mittee. On April 3, 1895, he was elected a Senator. OTHO TARBOX, in the General Assembly, and May 27, 1895, he waselected Assessor of Taxes and re-elected to theCouncil. He has been Superintendent of Schoolssince June 1894. He was initiated into ExeterLodge of Odd Fellows, Exeter, R. I., in 1887, andadmitted to the Grand Lodge in 1891. In politicshe is a Republican. He is unmarried. TIEPKE, Henry Edwin, Mayor of the city ofPawtucket, was born March 21, 1857, in that partof Pawtucket which then was in Massachusetts butnow is included in Rhode Island territory, son ofHenry Gustave and Tabitha S. (Leach) father was German and his mother was educated in the public schools, and beingleft an orphan at an early age, secured his first em-ployment at the Bunnell Print Works, Pawtucket,as factory boy. Shortly after he engaged with thehardware firm of George Mumford & Company,Pawtucket, and upon their retirement from business,connected himself with Sargent & Co., New York,the largest wholesale hardware house in Amer
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