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Kent County, Rhode Island Biographies

Men of Progress of Rhode Island and Providence Part 3
Source:  Boston New England Magazine 1896

CAMPBELL, John H., Editor and Publisher of the Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner, Phenix, was born in the village of Phenix, May 27, 1849, son of Neil and Catherine (Hart) Campbell. He is of Scotch ancestry, his parents having come to this country from Scotland in 1849, the year of his birth. He received his early education in the public schools of Providence, after which he learned the printer/s trade and has since mainly followed that vocation. He established himself in business in Phenix, where for some time he has been publisher and editor of the Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner, a newspaper devoted to the interests of one of the most thriving sections of the state. Mr. Campbell has been President of the Rhode Island Press Association, and has represented his native town (Warwick) three terms in the General Assembly.  In politics he is a Republican. He was married, June 24, 1874, to Miss Marie Louise Angus; they have two children: Neil A., born April 13, 1876, and Duncan Campbell, born July 3, 1881.

HANAFORD, James Boardman, M. D., Apponaug, was born in New Hampton, N. H., February 21, 1849, son of Joseph Norris and Betsey Nichols (Prescott) Hanaford. He is descended on the maternal side from Capt. John Prescott, who fell at Bunker Hill. His early education was obtained in the public schools and at the New London Literary and Scientific Institution, New London, N. H., now Colby Academy. He studied medicine with the late Prof.  L. B. How of Dartmouth College, graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York in 1871, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Apponaug, where he has since resided.  Dr. Hanaford has been very active in his professional life, and has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is known as one of the leading physicians of the county, has been Town Physician of Warwick for many years, and still holds that position. In April 1888 he was elected a Representative to the General Assembly of the state, and has been re-elected each successive year since, serving as a member of the Judiciary Committee of that body. He is a member of King Solomon Masonic Lodge of East Greenwich, also of the Providence Athletic Association, the Warwick Club and various other organizations. In politics Mr. Hanaford is a Republican. He was married, in 1872, to Anna Louise Reynolds; they have no children.

LANGMAID, George Batchelder, M. D., East Greenwich, was born in North Danville, Vt., September 5, 1848, son of Willard K. and Emily (Batchelder)  Langmaid.   He received   his early education in the common schools, and at Barton (Vermont) Academy, from which he graduated at the age of twenty.   Immediately following graduation he commenced the study of medicine with Dr.  Stokes of St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he remained for six months, and then went on a tour west as far as Colorado.   Upon his return he resumed his study of medicine, under the preceptor ship of the late Dr. Calvin Woodward of his native town, with whom he continued for a year, when the Doctor came to Boston and arranged for his pupil to enter the Boston University School of Medicine.   Here he took a three-years course, and graduated with the class of   1877.   Locating in  Melrose, Mass., he practiced his profession in that town for nine years, removing in April 1886 to East Greenwich, where he took an entirely new field, and has continued in active practice to the present time.   For the last three years he has been Surgeon of the Kentish Guards of East Greenwich.   Dr. Langmaid is a member of the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society.   In politics he is a Republican.

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