Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . L. C. LINCOLN. urer and Manager of that corporation ever Lincoln is a member of Woonsocket Lodge andPalestine Encampment of Odd Fellows, MyrtleLodge Knights of Pythias, Fountain Division Sonsof Temperance, and the Woonsocket Business MensAssociation. In politics he is a Republican. He MEN OF PROGRESS. 193 was married, April 27, 1877, to Miss AnjanetteBailey; they have one child, a daughter, FlorenceC. Lincoln, born May 14, 1878. L


Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . L. C. LINCOLN. urer and Manager of that corporation ever Lincoln is a member of Woonsocket Lodge andPalestine Encampment of Odd Fellows, MyrtleLodge Knights of Pythias, Fountain Division Sonsof Temperance, and the Woonsocket Business MensAssociation. In politics he is a Republican. He MEN OF PROGRESS. 193 was married, April 27, 1877, to Miss AnjanetteBailey; they have one child, a daughter, FlorenceC. Lincoln, born May 14, 1878. LITTLEFIELD, Nathan Whitman, attorney-at-law, Providence, was born in East Bridgewater, Plym-outh County, Mass., May 21, 1846, son of RufusAmes and Abigail Russell (Whitman) parents are living at East Bridgewater and cele-brated their golden wedding June 10, 1895. RufusAmes Littlefield is a lineal descendant of EdmundLittlefield, who came to Boston from England inthe year 1636 and who afterwards settled at Wells,. NATHAN W. LITTLEFIELD. Me., where he erected the first mill in that regionand did much to develop the manufacturing indus-tries of that place. One of the descendants ofEdmund Littlefield was Daniel Littlefield, who veryearly settled in what is now West Bridgewater,Mass., and was the progenitor of the branch of thefamily of which several generations have resided inthat and neighboring towns. Rufus Ames Little-field is related to the Ames family of North Easton,Mass., of which Ex-Gov. Oliver Ames was amember, and also to the Standishes of the Old Col-ony. Abigail Russell (Whitman) Littlefield is alineal descendant of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass., whose son Thomas was one of the first resi-dents of the ancient town of Bridgewater, Mass.,where he settled about the year 1662, and who wasthe progenitor of a family which has given to thenation Dr. Marcus Whitman, the Savior of Oregon;Ezekiel Whitman, for many years Chief Justice ofthe Superior and Supreme


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