Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ssof 1857. After leaving college he taught a privateschool in Norton, and was a bookkeeper for severalyears for Taylor, Symonds & Co., wholesale dry-goods, of Providence. Under President Lincolnscall for nine-months men he enlisted as a privatein the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,and on going into Camp Joe Hooker, at Middle-boro, was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant. Heserved under Gen. Banks in Louisiana until honor-ably dischar
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ssof 1857. After leaving college he taught a privateschool in Norton, and was a bookkeeper for severalyears for Taylor, Symonds & Co., wholesale dry-goods, of Providence. Under President Lincolnscall for nine-months men he enlisted as a privatein the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers,and on going into Camp Joe Hooker, at Middle-boro, was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant. Heserved under Gen. Banks in Louisiana until honor-ably discharged after about a years service. InDecember 1868, he was elected Secretary andTreasurer of the Firemens Mutual Insurance Com-pany, and of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1880, he was elected President andTreasurer of the two companies, and has held thoseoffices since that time. The business has steadilyincreased from year to year until at the presenttime more than eighty million dollars worth ofproperty is protected by the policies of the twocompanies. He is a Director of the First NationalBank, Providence, and Treasurer of The Rhode. EDWIN BARROWS. Island Bible Society. He has not taken any part inpublic affairs, but in politics he is a married, August 20, 1868, Miss Harriet , daughter of Dr. George B. Armington,of Pittsford, Vt; they have children: EdwinArmington, Mary Tomlinson, Anne Ide and AlbertArmington Barrows. BROWN, Daniel Russell, Governor of RhodeIsland 1892-95, was born in Bolton, Conn., March28, 1848, the son of Arba Harrison and HarrietMarilla (Dart) Brown. His early years were spenton his fathers farm and in attendance at the dis-trict school. He received his final school educationat an academy at Manchester, Conn., and in schoolat Hartford. After graduation he entered the em-ploy of a hardware me/«thant in Rockville, Conn.,and two years later lyecame head salesman of a 6 MEN OF PROGRESS. large hardware establishment in Hart
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