Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . rris Manufac-turing Company, and late President of the Atming-ton & Sims Engine Company, the Providence Tele-phone Company and the Pintsch Gas Howard is a lucid and forceful writerupon public questions and topics of the time, andcontributions from his ready pen have graced andenlivened the pages of various newspapers and peri-odicals, where they have invariably commandedthoughtful and widespread attention. He was forsome ye
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . rris Manufac-turing Company, and late President of the Atming-ton & Sims Engine Company, the Providence Tele-phone Company and the Pintsch Gas Howard is a lucid and forceful writerupon public questions and topics of the time, andcontributions from his ready pen have graced andenlivened the pages of various newspapers and peri-odicals, where they have invariably commandedthoughtful and widespread attention. He was forsome years a member of the Franklin Lyceum andat one time its President. In 1873 he received thehonorary degree of A. M. from Brown was married, September 30, 1851, to Miss Cath-arine Greene Harris, daughter of Elisha Harris, aformer Governor of Rhode Island; they have threechildren: Jessie H., wife of Edward C. Bucklin,Elisha H. and Charles T. Howard. JORDAN, Jules, musical director and composer,was born in Willimantic, Conn., November 10,1850, son of Lyman and Susan (Beckwith) is of early colonial ancestry, his progenitors on. MEN OF PROGRESS. the maternal side having been the first settlers ofNew London, Conn.; his fathers people were allRhode Islanders, and their old homestead is locatedat Greene, R. I. The subject of this sketch attendedthe public school in AVillimantic until sixteen yearsold. Always interested in music, and naturally pos-sessed of musical talents of a high order, he hadbut small opportunity for cultivation until he re-moved to Providence in 1870, where his fine tenorvoice secured him a position in the choir of GraceChurch and made him known in musical was thus enabled to commence study in earnest,and has since devoted himself exclusively to thepractice of the art which his tastes and special abili-ties led him to adopt as a life profession. He
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