Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . he degree of B. P. in 1872. He afterwardsentered the Department of Law in Union Univer-sity, Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated withthe degree of LL. B. in 1875. He was admittedto the bar of the state of New York, May 21, 1875,to the bar of Rhode Island, November 2, 1875, andto the Circuit Court of the United States, March 7,1877. He has since practised his profession inProvidence. In January 1890 he was appointedCommissioner of the Uni
Men of progress; biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations . he degree of B. P. in 1872. He afterwardsentered the Department of Law in Union Univer-sity, Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated withthe degree of LL. B. in 1875. He was admittedto the bar of the state of New York, May 21, 1875,to the bar of Rhode Island, November 2, 1875, andto the Circuit Court of the United States, March 7,1877. He has since practised his profession inProvidence. In January 1890 he was appointedCommissioner of the United States Circuit Courtfor the District of Rhode Island, which office henow holds He has taken an active part in theservice of the Rhode Island militia He was SecondLieutenant and Judge Advocate of the First LightInfantry Regiment from 1879 to 1880; Captain andAdjutant from 1880 to 1884; Major from 1886 24 MEN OF PROGRESS. to 1887; Lieutenant-Colonel from 1887 to 1889;Adjutant of the Veteran Association from 1884 to1887 and Major from 1893 to 1895. He was amember of the Common Council from 1887 to 1890and of the Board of Aldermen from 1890 to S, T, DOUGLAS. In politics he is a RepubHcan He is a member ofthe First Baptist Church, of the Rhode Island His-torical Society, the First Light Infantry VeteranAssociation, and of the Hope, Athletic, ProvidenceBar and Young Mens [Republican clubs. He mar-ried, November 20,1878, Miss Alice Crawford Noyes,who died January 10, 1881 ; they had one child,Samuel Noyes Douglas, now living. On September24, 1884, he married Miss Edith Courtney Harris,who died November 27, 1885. He again married,January i, 1890, Miss Alice Barnes Wilbur. DOUGLAS, William W., Jusnce of the SupremeCourt, was born in Providence, November 26, 1841,son of Rev William and Sarah (Sawyer) father was a native of Scotland and born nearGlasgow. His mother was a native of Salisbury,Mass. He was educated in the public schools inProvidence and at Brown Univer
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