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Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ? read before the AmericanSocial Science Association at Saratoga in 1876 andpublished in the Sanitarian. As chairman of thecommittee of school hygiene of the Rhode IslandMedical Association, in 1875, he made a full reportwith a series of resolutions, which were copied intoseveral sanitary journals and commented on. Heread a paper on Interior or Open Spaces in LargeCities, before the American Public Health Associa-tion. He is also the author
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ? read before the AmericanSocial Science Association at Saratoga in 1876 andpublished in the Sanitarian. As chairman of thecommittee of school hygiene of the Rhode IslandMedical Association, in 1875, he made a full reportwith a series of resolutions, which were copied intoseveral sanitary journals and commented on. Heread a paper on Interior or Open Spaces in LargeCities, before the American Public Health Associa-tion. He is also the author of several pamphletspublished annually for ten years by the Public ParkAssociation, the last of which. No. 10, was influ-ential in securing the loan for a new State Houseand fixing its location. He is also the author of the Cyclopaedia of Domestic Medicine and Hygiene,Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1890. He married,in September 1867, Miss Annie Potter Bates, daugh-ter of James W. Bates of South Kingston, and hasone son : Claude Potter, born November 8, 1870. NUGENT, Charles Franklin, banker, Provi-dence, was born in Lynn, Mass., November 15, 1869,. CHAS. F. NUGENT. son of Thomas and Eliza (Newhall) Nugent. Hereceived his education in the grammar schools ofLynn and in the high school of Manchester, NewHampshire. After completing his school educationhe entered the employ of the Amoskeag Mills in 54 MEN OF PROGRESS. Manchester and thoroughly learned the processof the manufacture of cotton cloth. He was ap-pointed superintendent of the cotton mills inMoosup, Conn., in 1888, and resigned on accountof ill-health in 1889. He came to Providence thesame year and engaged in the merchant-tailoringbusiness, which was successfully conducted underthe firm name of C. F. Nugent & Company. In1893 the business of C. F, Nugent & Company wasincorporated in a concern of which he was electedPresident. He resigned and severed his interestwith the firm in 1894. He then engaged in thebanking business, wh
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