The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nd of the Ameri-can national bank. He is a directorin the Peoples savings bank, Corliss safe and vaultdoor company, the Providence Washington insur-ance company, and the Union mutu
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nd of the Ameri-can national bank. He is a directorin the Peoples savings bank, Corliss safe and vaultdoor company, the Providence Washington insur-ance company, and the Union mutual insurance com-pany. He has been president of the Providencecommercial club, and of the Providence young mensChristian association. Has been a member of theCentral Congregational church for thirty-five years,and has been active in the work of the church, hav-ing been superintendent of the Sabbath-school forseven years, and is now chairman of the buildingcommittee for the erection of a new church has frequently been solicited to accept a nomina-tion for public positions, but has always declined,preferring to devote his energies to the business andreligious enterprises in which he is engaged. has been twice married, his first wife be-ing Anna Davis Barney of Seekonk, Mass., to whomsix children were born; the second wife was Har-riet Zerviah Pope, and by this marriage are 258 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA WETHERELL, Emma Abbott, vocalist, wasborn in Chicago, 111., Dec. 9,1849. Her father a mu-sician in humble circumstances, strolled about withhis daughter from place to place in the West, givingconcerts wherever he could in parlors and had an intense love for music and a wonderfulvoice which she was ambitious to cultivate, and atthe age of eighteen left Chicago for New York, tak-ing her guitar and a very light gripsack, with onlymoney enough to pay her way to Fort Wayne, anddepending upon her talent for further funds to reachher destin
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