Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . e commission house of Walkinshaw & Voigh, 78Worth Street, until 1889, thus familiarizing him-self with the commission business. He then becameAgent and Manager of the Lippitt Woolen Company,which position he now holds. He is also a Directorin the Social Manufacturing Company, the TurkeyRed Dyeing Company and the Providence OperaHouse Association, all of Providence. He waselected as a Member of the House in the State Legislature in 1894-95,
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . e commission house of Walkinshaw & Voigh, 78Worth Street, until 1889, thus familiarizing him-self with the commission business. He then becameAgent and Manager of the Lippitt Woolen Company,which position he now holds. He is also a Directorin the Social Manufacturing Company, the TurkeyRed Dyeing Company and the Providence OperaHouse Association, all of Providence. He waselected as a Member of the House in the State Legislature in 1894-95, in which body he is servingthe present year as Chairman of the Committee onCorporation. He is also a member of the Commis-sion appointed by the Legislature to represent theState at the Atlanta Worlds Fair, being appointedon the Governors staff. Mr. Lippitt belongs to theHope and Union clubs, the Press Club, AnawamHunt Club, Providence Athletic Association, RhodeIsland Yacht Club (vice-commodore), What CheerHarbor No. 13 American Association of Mastersand Pilots of Steam Vessels, and the Sons of theAmerican Revolution, all of Providence; also the. R. LINCOLN LIPPITT. New York Yacht Club, the Society for the Preven-tion of Cruelty to Animals, and various other societiesand organizations. In politics he is a was married in 1882 and has one daughter:Mabelle Clifton Lippitt. At present he is unmarried. MARTIN, Joseph Wright, of Warren, Presidentof the Warren Trust Company and the Warren Elec-tric Light Company, was born in Warren, October14, 1852, son of Ezra M. and Cynthia M. (Wright)Martin. His parents came to Warren from Reho-both, Mass. He received his early education in thepublic schools of Warren, and entering the Commer-cial Department of East Greenwich Seminary, EastGreenwich, R. I., at the age of nineteen, graduated I20 MEN OF PROGRESS. therefrom in 1873, ^^^ began at once the activeduties of a commercial life. He is at present as-sociated with his father, Ezr
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