Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . prenticeship andcontinuing the trade with him for twenty years. In1869 he commenced business for himself as a pro-fessional undertaker and still continues in that pro-fession. Mr. Simmons was a member of the firedepartment of the town of Bristol for twenty-oneyears, holding the office of foreman of the KingPhilip hand-engine in 1869, and has served two 134 MEN OF PROGRESS. years as assistant engineer on the board of engineersof the departme
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . prenticeship andcontinuing the trade with him for twenty years. In1869 he commenced business for himself as a pro-fessional undertaker and still continues in that pro-fession. Mr. Simmons was a member of the firedepartment of the town of Bristol for twenty-oneyears, holding the office of foreman of the KingPhilip hand-engine in 1869, and has served two 134 MEN OF PROGRESS. years as assistant engineer on the board of engineersof the department. He served in the war of theRebelHon as Sergeant of Company E, Twelfth RhodeIsland Volunteers, and was wounded at Fredericks-burg, December 13, 1862. He is also a veteran ofBristol Train of Artillery. He is a member of Lodge of Masons since 1864, and of UnitedBrothers Lodge of Odd Fellows from 1870; a mem-ber and Past Chief Patriarch of Wampanoag En-campment ; Past Ensign and Lieutenant of CantonMiller, Patriarchs Militant; and a member of Burn-side Lodge Knights of Pythias and Babbitt PostGrand Army of the Republic. In politics he is a. GEO. W. SIMMONS. Republican, and has been a Representative to theGeneral Assembly since May 1891. He was mar-ried, October 4, 1855, to Miss Elizabeth R. Allen;they have three children : Amy E., Emma E. andMary R. Simmons. SLATER, Alpheus Brayton, General Managerand Director of the Providence Gas Company, wasborn in Warwick, R. I., November 26, 1832, son ofBrayton and Patience (Millard) Slater. His familyis that of the well-known and respected Slaters ofKillingly, Conn., and his maternal grandfather wasCharles Millard of Warwick. He received hispreparatory education in the public schools of Newburyport, Mass., and East Killingly, Conn.,and afterwards attended Srnithville Seminary atNorth Scituate and the Conference Seminary at EastGreenwich. In September 1853, when not quitetwenty-one, he entered the service of the Provi-dence Gas C
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