Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . remington p. capwell. January 5, 1872, the son of Edwin C. and Susan(Remington) Capwell. He is a nephew of Dr. Monroe of Woonsocket, with whom he studiedduring his school term in that city. He received 92 MEN OF PROGRESS. his early education in the primary and grammarschools of Phenix and the high school of Woon-socket, graduating from the latter in the class of1891. He entered the Bellevue Hospital MedicalCollege of New York, and gra
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . remington p. capwell. January 5, 1872, the son of Edwin C. and Susan(Remington) Capwell. He is a nephew of Dr. Monroe of Woonsocket, with whom he studiedduring his school term in that city. He received 92 MEN OF PROGRESS. his early education in the primary and grammarschools of Phenix and the high school of Woon-socket, graduating from the latter in the class of1891. He entered the Bellevue Hospital MedicalCollege of New York, and graduated in 1894. established himself in practice in Slatersville,R. I., April I, 1894, at the age of twenty-two, andhas since remained there. He is not married. CARPENTER, Alva, iron manufacturer. Provi-dence, was born in Seekonk, Mass., March 2,1829, son of Jonathan and Leafy (Bourne) Carpen-. ALVA CARPENTER. ter, and a descendant of Albert Carpenter, whocame over from England with the early attended the common schools until fifteenyears old, and then spent two years in a cottonmill. In 1846, at the age of seventeen, he wasapprenticed to learn the moulders trade withThomas J. Hill (now the Providence MachineCompany), and at the expiration of his term ofservice worked three years in a foundry at Matea-wan, N. Y., returning to Rhode Island in 1850 andworking two years in a foundry at Newport. In1852 he entered the employ of the Corliss SteamEngine Company, remaining with them until 1865and in September of that year started in the foundrybusiness in company with Amos D. Smith, under the firm name of Smith & Carpenter, on Dyerstreet. The partnership continued until 1870, whenthey disposed of the business there and removedto Aborn street, Mr. Carpenter buying out interest soon after and continuing the busi-ness alone. In 1880 he took in Henry C. Bowenas
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