Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ticket in1892 and Chairman of the Rhode Island delegation in the Republican National Convention at Minne-apolis in 1892. In 1894 he was favorably mentionedas a candidate for United States Senator, but with-drew his name in a letter recommending Peabody Wetmore. He is a member of theAmerican Bar Association, Rhode Island HistoricalSociety, Sons of the American Revolution and mostof the leading social clubs of Providence as well as
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . ticket in1892 and Chairman of the Rhode Island delegation in the Republican National Convention at Minne-apolis in 1892. In 1894 he was favorably mentionedas a candidate for United States Senator, but with-drew his name in a letter recommending Peabody Wetmore. He is a member of theAmerican Bar Association, Rhode Island HistoricalSociety, Sons of the American Revolution and mostof the leading social clubs of Providence as well asof others in New York and Washington. He wasmarried, October 19, 1880, to Miss Ella Jenckes,daughter of Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, the distin-guished advocate of civil service reform, lawyer andstatesman. They have had four children : WilliamGreene, Thomas Jenckes (deceased), EleanorJenckes and Edith Goddard Roelker. SACK, August Albert, one of the leading man-ufacturers of Rhode Island, is a native of Germany,where he was born August 16, 1843. After acquir-ing a liberal education and gaining a thoroughknowledge of all the details of woolen manufactur-. A. ALBERT SACK. ing in his native country, he came to America in1867. He was first employed as designer by theHarris Woolen Company of Woonsocket, R. I., andlater served in a similar capacity in the EverettMills at Lawrence, Mass., and the Bates Mills at I30 MEN OF PROGRESS. Lewiston, Me. This was followed by a brief servicein the commission house of Leland, Allen & Bates,Boston, where he had full supervision of all thewoolen mills operated by this firm. In 1873 hecame to Providence as superintendent of theworsted mill of Owen & Clark. In 1879 he pur-chased the business of Mr. Owen, incorporated asthe Geneva Worsted Mill. After successfully man-aging it until May 1884 he sold his interest in thisenterprise. He then organized the LymansvilleCompany and under his personal direction built theLymansville Mills, which are acknowledged t
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