Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . where he remaineduntil he was fifteen. He then attended BristolCounty Academy in Taunton, Mass., for a year anda half, after which he returned to his old positionwhere he remained until he was twenty. He thenstarted in the hardware business for himself, andsince that time the firm of C. H. George & Com-pany has been among the most prominent in itsline in the state. He was elected a Director ofthe Roger Williams National Bank in 1873 and its
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . where he remaineduntil he was fifteen. He then attended BristolCounty Academy in Taunton, Mass., for a year anda half, after which he returned to his old positionwhere he remained until he was twenty. He thenstarted in the hardware business for himself, andsince that time the firm of C. H. George & Com-pany has been among the most prominent in itsline in the state. He was elected a Director ofthe Roger Williams National Bank in 1873 and itsPresident in 1879, and is a Director in severalother banking institutions. He was President ofthe Board of Trade in 1891 and 1892. In 1887 hewas appointed by President Cleveland, Postmasterof Providence, and held the office until July 1895,several years after the expiration of his commission. 34 MEN OF PROGRESS. He is a member of the Congregational Club, andwas its President in 1890 and 1892. He is a mem-ber of the Providence Press Club, the MarineOrder, and various social and fraternal associationsIn poHtics he is a Democrat. He married, April. CHAS. H. GEORGE. 14, 1861, Miss Clarissa Jackson, who died Septem-ber 4, 1880. He has three children: Edward A.,now minister of the Congregational Church of New-port, Vt.; Grace T., wife of Wm. C. Dart, andMargaret Emerson George. GARVIN, Lucius Fayeite Clark, physician andsurgeon, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., November13, 1841, son of James, Jr., and Sarah A. (Gunn)Garvin. His paternal ancestors were among theearly settlers of Vermont. His maternal ancestors,including the Gunn, Montague and Dickensonfamilies, were settlers of Massachusetts and of Eng-lish descent. He received his early education inthe public schools of Enfield and Sunderland, fitted for college in the New Garden School,now Guilford College, near Greenboro, N. C, havingpreviously attended a private school in Greenboro,and entered Amherst College, Mass., at the a
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