The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . ployed at his tradeHe financed his own law course through Harvard, antwhen awarded his LL. B., class of 1876, he returned t(Providence, and there has won high standing as lawyerpublic official, and citizen. His start in life was noconspicuous, both parents dying at the end of the voyage to the United States, from Ireland, the orphane(infant being cared for by a Boston Benevolent Societyconnected with the Roman Catholic Cathedral. But thihandicap was overcome, and he grew to manhood filletwith a laudable ambition to rise in t
The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . ployed at his tradeHe financed his own law course through Harvard, antwhen awarded his LL. B., class of 1876, he returned t(Providence, and there has won high standing as lawyerpublic official, and citizen. His start in life was noconspicuous, both parents dying at the end of the voyage to the United States, from Ireland, the orphane(infant being cared for by a Boston Benevolent Societyconnected with the Roman Catholic Cathedral. But thihandicap was overcome, and he grew to manhood filletwith a laudable ambition to rise in the world. Everything he did was toward that end, and he laid the gooifoundation of a common English education upon whiclto buiW his future. He was fortunate in his associations and to Professor Charles Eliot Nortons (oHarvard University) kindly interest Mr. McCarthtraces the desire and aspirations toward a higher, berteplane of life. But no circumstance nor associatio:could furnish the motive power whch drove the k,onward, that came from within, and to his own fore. ^ca^ ^^W, ^j^^^u^ BIOGRAPHICAL 87 f character, courage and initiative he owes the posi-on he now holds at the bar, and in the regard of hisillowmen. Patrick Joseph McCarthy, youngest of the seven sonsf Patrick and Alice (Cullen) McCarthy, was born inounty Shgo, Ireland, in 1848, and when an infant?as brought to the United States by his parents. Erele ship landed in Boston, and while yet in quarantinet Deer Island, in the harbor, both parents died, and theoung child was taken in care by strange but lovingearts. Until eight years of age he was in the care ofle Society which took him, then from that age untilDurteen years he attended a day school in the winter;ason in Somerville, Mass., and for a few years at-;nded night school at old Cambridge, the latter schoolaving been established by Professor Norton, and asso-iates, one of whom was Charles William Eliott. of[arvard University. To this school in Cambridge
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