Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . MEN OF PROGRESS. at Appomattox. In 1865 he entered the Departmentof Medicine of the University of New York, and in1866 the Long Island College Hospital. He com-menced the practice of medicine in Andover, Ash-. his early business training with the extensive firm ofMead, Lacy & Co., New York, with whom he wasshipping clerk from 1864 to 1868; at the close ofthe war the firm ranked second or third in the countryas wholesale grocers and governme
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . MEN OF PROGRESS. at Appomattox. In 1865 he entered the Departmentof Medicine of the University of New York, and in1866 the Long Island College Hospital. He com-menced the practice of medicine in Andover, Ash-. his early business training with the extensive firm ofMead, Lacy & Co., New York, with whom he wasshipping clerk from 1864 to 1868; at the close ofthe war the firm ranked second or third in the countryas wholesale grocers and government the civil war he was First Lieutenant in Com-pany D First Regiment Rhode Island Militia, in1863. In June 1868 he went West on account of hishealth, and settled in Kansas. Owing to two visita-tions of grasshoppers, drought and floods, followedby the financial panic of 1873, the loss of his wifeafter an illness of five days, and the destruction ofhis house by fire, he abandoned Kansas and returnedto the East. He determined to adopt medicineas his profession, and graduated from the MedicalSchool of the University of New York, March 20,1879. I^ ^879 ^^ settled in Centerdale, R. I.,where he has secured a large piactice. He is Visit-ing Physician of the Rhode Island HomoeopathicHospital and a member of the Board of was elec
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