The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nician. For some years he was superintendentof the Slater cotton mills in Providence (serving atthe same time as major-general of the Rhode Islandmilitia), and then for a considera
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nician. For some years he was superintendentof the Slater cotton mills in Providence (serving atthe same time as major-general of the Rhode Islandmilitia), and then for a considerable period was_ en-gaged in the construction of cotton mills in variousparts of the country. In 1849 he returned to RhodeIsland and built the Atlantic delaine mill at Olney-ville. From 1851 until 1857, as a whig, he repre-sented Rhode in the U. S. senate. Afterleaving the senate he gave his chief attention toperfecting a rifle-cannon and a projectile, uponwhich he had been engaged for many years, anddied from injuries received wliile prosecuting his ex-periments. Though his early educational opportuni-ties had been limited, he was a man of varied accom-plishments and a frequent contributor to magazinesand periodicals, among which was a series of paperson the culture and manufacture of cotton in thesouth. In 1838 Brown university gave him the de-gree of He died at Sag Harbor, N. Y., , 55^^^—^ OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 325
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