ALLEN, Edwin Robinson, Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island, was born in Windham, Conn., November 26, 1840, the son of Edwin and Ruth B. (Noyes) Allen. The earlier members of the Allen family were residents of Windham County, Conn. Amos D. Allen, the grandfather of the subject of this biography, married Sarah Tracy, whose children were seven in number. Their son Edwin, a native of Windham county, deceased January 4, 1891, gave much attention to inventions of a practical character, and won some distinction in that line; he married Ruth B., daughter of Joseph Noyes and Elizabeth Babcock of Westerly, and their children are Edward Tracy of San Francisco, Edwin Robinson of Hopkinton, and Charles Noyes of Willington, Conn. Governor Allen received his earliest instruction at the select and public schools of the town, completing his studies at Eagleswood. N. J. In September 1856 he entered the store of his uncle, the late Charles Noyes, at Hopkinton, as clerk, and continued in that capacity until September 1862, when he entered the army as a private in the Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Infantry. He advanced in the regular line of promotion until his discharge and return in June 1865, as First Lieutenant in command of the company in which he first enlisted. During this period he participated in some of the most eventful engagements of the war, including Fredericksburg, fall of Vicksburg and Jackson, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor. Mechanicsville, Bethesda Church, Hatchers Run, and Petersburg. On receiving his discharge he resumed his duties at the store, which he has owned and managed since 1879.  Mr. Allen was in 1866 elected clerk of the town of Hopkinton, and still holds that office. His conceded ability and integrity place him in confidential relations with his townsmen. His knowledge of town affairs, acquired through years of experience, and his efficiency in all matters coming be-fore probate courts, cause his advice to be frequently sought in the drafting of important documents and in the transfer and settlement of estates.

In  politics he is a Republican.   His political career commenced in 1889, when he represented the town of Hopkinton in the State Senate, and was three times re-elected to that office. He was, in April 1894, elected Lieutenant-Governor, and by virtue of re-election in April 1895, is the present incumbent of that office. Mr. Allen was married, January 1, 1868, to Mary E., daughter of George K. Thayer and Martha E. Babcock; their children are two sons : George E., born August 1, 1869, and Frederick C. Allen, whose birth occurred August 6, 1871.  Biographie Index

ARNOLD, John Nelson, artist and portrait painter, was born in Masonville, now Grosvenor Dale, Thompson, Conn., June 4, 1834, the son of Benjamin and Thirza (Whitford) Arnold. His father's family were of the Warwick, R. I., Arnolds, and he is a descendant in the seventh generation from Roger Williams. His mother's family were from Sterling, Conn. His parents came to Providence in 1836. He received his early education in the public schools, and graduated from the Elm street grammar school, Caleb Farnum master, in 1850.    He was then apprenticed to the jewelry firm of Stone & Weaver to learn engraving.    He studied art by himself, as opportunity offered, and at the expiration of his term of apprenticeship began to teach himself painting. In 1856 he opened a studio in Providence and has followed the profession of portrait painting since.  He never had any instruction in art, but after he had opened a studio, he received many valuable suggestions from James S. Lincoln, who then stood at the head of his profession in the city, and continued to do so until Mr. Lincoln's death; Mr.  Lincoln never took any pupils, but was always kind to young artists, ready to criticize and suggest improvements, and in a certain sense he has always considered him his master. His artistic instinct was developed very early, and at ten years of age he executed a painting of a landscape bridge and water-fall. Among the portraits of prominent men he has painted there are, in the State House: Governor Francis (after Healy), Governors Anthony and Lippitt; at Brown University, President Sears, Judge Pitman, Gen. Varnum and Dr. Alvah Woods; at the City Hall, Mayors Doyle, Clarke and Potter; at the Public Library, Henry L. Kendall and John Wilson Smith; at the Masonic Temple, Past Grand Master N. Van Slyck and E. L. Freeman; at the Odd Fellows Hall, P. G. M. Ham and Anderson ; at the Rhode Island Historical Society, E. R. Young, Governor H. W. King and Hon. Thomas Davis : at Warwick Town Hall, Hon. Enos Lapham, Bishop Clark, Christopher Robinson, Henry Steeres; for the Old Men's Home, Amos Perry, Gov. John W.  Davis and many others.   He was Chairman of the School Committee of Johnston from 1892 to 1895.  In politics he is a Democrat.   He is a member of the Psychical Research Society and of the Royal Society of Good Fellows.   He married, in 1856, Miss Rose Potter of Johnston, who died in 1890; they had two children: Ernest F., who died in 1875, aged seventeen, and Herbert Percy Arnold, who is now master mechanic of one of the Howland Mills in New Bedford.  Biographie Index

BALLOU, Barton Allan, manufacturing jeweler, Providence, was born in Cumberland, R. I., October 25, 1835, son of Barton and Deborah Catherine (Rathbone) Ballou. He is descended in the sixth generation from Maturin Ballou, one of the early settlers of Providence and a contemporary of Roger Williams. His father, Barton Ballou, graduated from Brown University in the class of 1813 ; he was the son of Levi Ballou, Esq., of Cumberland, who was a prominent citizen of his town and state. His maternal grandparents were Abraham Borden Rathbone and Waity Thomas of Wickford, R. I.  His early education was obtained in the public schools of his native town. His father died before he had completed his ninth year, leaving the widow and children to depend upon their own resources.  At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to learn the jewelers' trade in Providence. During the long depression in the jewelry business which followed the panic of 1857, he became for a few years a resident of New Hampshire.   He enlisted in the army, and was largely influential in organizing a military company that formed a part of the Sixteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers. He was elected Lieutenant, and served with his regiment under the command of General Banks in the Department of the Gulf.   He began his career as a manufacturing jeweler early in 1878, and in a few months formed with his brother-in-law, the late John J. Fry, the firm since known as B. A. Ballou & Co., which acquired and has maintained a high reputation in the business.   He is an official member of the National Free Religious Association and an active member of the Free Religious Society of Providence, always on the executive committee and at one time its president.   He is a member and supporter of the Union for Christian work, a Director of the Manufacturing Jewelers' Board of Trade, a member of the Manufacturing Jewelers' Association, the Advance Club, and other organizations based on the idea of the common good.   In politics he is a Republican, but not sufficiently partisan to engage in active political work.   He married. May 7, 1858, Miss Delia A. Wesley, who died without children. He was again married, November 28,1867, to Miss Mary Rathbone Kelley; they have three children : Frederick Allan, Charles Rathbone and Alice May Ballou.  Biographie Index

BALLOU, Hon. Latimer Whipple, LL. D., Woonsocket, was born in Cumberland, R.I, March 1, 1812 son of Levi and Hepzibah (Metcalf) Ballou. He is a member of the numerous and long distinguished family of Ballou's that are descended from Maturin Ballou, who was one of the earliest emigrants to America from England, and who in 1745 was a co-proprietor of the Providence Plantations in the Colony of Rhode Island. Latimer W. Ballou attended the district schools, and at the age of sixteen was given by his father the option of a collegiate education or a mechanical trade. He chose the latter and became apprentice to a printing firm in Cambridge, Mass., near Harvard University, in which his maternal uncle, Eliab Metcalf, was a partner. After serving his apprenticeship, his next two years were spent as assistant foreman in the University printing office, Cambridge, following which he united in partnership with two others and started the Cambridge Press with which he remained seven years. At this time impaired health admonished him to leave the printing business, and in 1842 he entered into mercantile partnership with his brother-in-law, William O. Bisbee, at Woonsocket, R. I. Here a few years' experience convinced him that merchandise was not his element, and in 1850 he became Cashier of the Woonsocket Falls Bank, and Treasurer of the Woonsocket Institution for Savings, where he proved to be the right man in the right place, having retained these responsible positions ever since, and to the great prosperity of both institutions.   In politics, as in finance, his life has been a useful and successful one. Belonging to the progressive wing of the old Whig party, he naturally advanced into the Republican ranks, and was a prudent counselor, eloquent speaker and popular leader. He was a Presidential Elector in 1860, Delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1872, and Representative in Congress three successive terms, from 1875 to 1881. All these offices he filled with honor to himself, satisfaction to his constituents and benefit to his country. He was a model Congressman, not only as a legislator, but as an exemplary moralist, being an active Vice-President of the Congressional Temperance Society, and in other ways an earnest worker and a shining example.  In all matters relating to the education of youth, moral and philanthropic reforms, and the common charities of the general community, Latimer W.  Ballou is a practical devotee to human welfare.  In religion he is a Universalist, and an emphatic worker and up builder of his denomination and all its internal institutions. He has been a model Sunday School teacher, first in Cambridge, and later in Woonsocket where he has led the school of the Universalist Society as Superintendent with great success for over fifty years. In the colleges, academies, conventions, conferences and various organizations of the denomination, he has held and adorned many dignified offices, to the pleasure and profit of all concerned. Mr. Ballou was married, October 20, 1836, to Miss Sarah A. Hunnewell of Cambridge, Mass. They had four children: Mary Frances, born August 3, 1837 ; Sarah Jane, born March 20, 1839; Marie Louise, born August 15, 1846, and Henry Latimer Ballou, born October 14, 1841, now Assistant Treasurer of the Woonsocket Institution for Savings, and Treasurer and Trustee of several societies, estates and institutions.  Biographie Index

BARNARD, Charles Alonzo, homeopathic physician, was born in Milledgeville, Ga., August 16, 1843, son of William H. and Nancy C. (Perry) Barnard.   He is descended from Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England.   His family is connected with the Paine and Aldrich families, of English descent, both of which have coats of arms.  He received his early education in the public schools of Providence, and graduated from the scientific department of the high school in 1864.   He received his early business training with the extensive firm of Mead, Lacy &: Co., New York, with whom he was shipping clerk from 1864 to 1868; at the close of the war the firm ranked second or third in the country as wholesale grocers and government contractors.  During the civil war he was First Lieutenant in Company D First Regiment Rhode Island Militia, in 1863.   In June 1868 he went West on account of his health, and settled in Kansas.   Owing to two visitations of grasshoppers, drought and floods, followed by the financial panic of 1873, the loss of his wife after an illness of five days, and the destruction of his house by fire, he abandoned Kansas and returned to the East.   He determined to adopt medicine as his profession, and graduated from the Medical School of the University of New York, March 20, 1879.   In 1879 he settled in Centerdale, R. I., where he has secured a large practice.   He is Visiting Physician of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Hospital and a member of the Board of Trustees.  He was elected President of the Board of Health of the town of Johnston in 1892, and is Medical Examiner for the Fourth District of Providence County. comprising the towns of North Providence and Smithfield.  He was President of the Medico-Legal Society for two years, from July 1891 to Julv 1893.  He was President of the Rhode Island Homeopathic Society for three years, from January 1890 to January 1893, the longest term ever held by any individual.   He is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, and of the New York Medico-Legal Society.   He is a charter member of Narragansett  Lodge, A. O. U. W., and was its first medical examiner.   Dr. Barnard has engaged, as a recreation, in breeding blooded horses, and he has some of the most highly bred horses in the country. He has taken no part in politics and has always refused public office.   He joined the church at the age of twenty-one and has always been an ardent member of some church; he has selected the church located where he has lived, seeking to help the people of his own community, and caring more for the substance than the form of his own religion.   He has been trustee and treasurer of the Free Baptist Church of Johnston, and member of the Executive Board of the Rhode Island Free Baptist Association, and was twice elected President of the Rhode Island Free Baptist Social Union.   He married, November 29, 1866, Matilda P., widow of Rev. Robert Roberts of Brooklyn, who died September 13, 1875 ; they had children: William H. and Ethelwyn N.   September 6, 1881, he married Miss Elizabeth T. Luther, daughter of Henry G. Luther of Providence; they had children: Luther, Edith, Mary Brownell and Clinton Barnard; she died December 31, 1889.    On June 9, 1892, he was again married, to Adelaide R. Mowry, daughter of the late John A Mowry of Smithfield, R. I.  Biographie Index

BARNEY, Walter Hammond, attorney-at-law.  Providence, was born in Providence, September 20, 1855 the son of Josiah K. and Susan H. (Hammond) Barney. He is descended on both sides from old Massachusetts families, the Barneys, Pecks, Hammonds and Browns, who were distinguished in the Revolutionary and Colonial services. He is also connected on both sides with Commodore Oliver H. Perry. He received his early education in the public schools of Providence and Pawtucket, R. I., and Silver City, Nevada, and attended Mowry & Goff's Classical School in Providence from 1868 to 1872, graduating with the valedictory. He graduated from Brown University in the class of 1876 with the degree of A. B., receiving that of A. M. in 1879; he was the valedictorian of his class. He studied law in the office of Colwell & Colt (Hon.  Francis Colwell, now City Solicitor, and Hon.  Le Baron B. Colt, now Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals), and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in February 1879. He practiced by himself from 1879 to 1883, and then was associated with his old instructor, Hon. Francis Colwell, until 1893, since which time he has been by himself. His principal practice is in equity and corporation law. He has taken an active interest in public affairs. He was a member of the General Assembly in 1889-90; has been a member of the School Committee from 1889 to the present time, and its President since 1890 : and was a member of the Common Council in 1891-92-93 and '95. He is a member of the Providence Athletic Association, the Elmwood and Pomham clubs, the Providence Whist Club and the Narragansett Whist Club, of which latter he is the President. He was one of the organizers of the American Whist League, and was its Secretary from its origin, in 1891, to the present year, when he was elected Vice-President.  He has been President of the New England Whist Association since its organization. In politics he is a Republican He married, June 1882, Miss Sarah Lydia, daughter of Ezra I. Walker; they have one child : Walter H., Jr.  Biographie Index

BARROWS, Edwin, President of Insurance Companies, was born in Norton, Mass., January 24, 1834, son of Albert and Harriet (Ide) Barrows.  He received his early education in the common schools and at Peirce Academy, Middleboro, Mass.  He entered Yale College and graduated in the class of 1857. After leaving college he taught a private school in Norton, and was a bookkeeper for several years for Taylor, Symonds & Co., wholesale dry-goods, of Providence. Under President Lincoln's call for nine-months he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and on going into Camp Joe Hooker, at Middleboro, was appointed Quartermaster-Sergeant. He served under Gen. Banks in Louisiana until honorably discharged after about a year's service. In December 1868, he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Firemen's Mutual Insurance Company, and of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1880, he was elected President and Treasurer of the two companies, and has held those offices since that time. The business has steadily increased from year to year until at the present time more than eighty million dollars' worth of property is protected by the policies of the two companies. He is a Director of the First National Bank, Providence, and Treasurer of The Rhode Island Bible Society. He has not taken any part in public affairs, but in politics he is a Republican.  He married, August 20, 1868, Miss Harriet E.  Armington, daughter of Dr. George B. Armington, of Pittsford, Vt; they have children: Edwin Armington, Mary Tomlinson, Anne Ide and Albert Armington Barrows.  Biographie Index

BARSTOW, Amos Chafee, iron founder, Providence, was born in Providence, November 2, 1848, the son of Amos Chafee and Emeline Mumford (Eames) Barstow. He is a descendant of William Barstow, who came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Massachusetts in 1636. His grandfather, Nathaniel Barstow, came from Hanover to Providence early in life, and his father, Hon. Amos C.  Barstow, was born in Providence in 1813, and was for many years identified with the growth of his native city, having been one of the early Mayors of Providence, and prominent in temperance, in politics and in religious work. Mr. Barstow received his early education in the public grammar schools, and in Ladd & Mowry's, afterwards Mowry & Goff's English and Classical High School. He lacked about a year of completing preparation for college, when on account of illness a college course was abandoned, and after two years1 training in office work he made a voyage to California, before the completion of the first through railroad, spending a few months in travel, after which his business life was begun in earnest. He began his business career in February 1866, with the Barstow Stove Company, iron founders. This business had been started by his father in 1836 and was incorporated in 1859. He was elected Treasurer in 1869, and has since continued in that office, having been manager of the business the greater part of the time.  He was elected President in February 1895, succeeding his father in this office a few months after the latter's death, which occurred in September 1894. He served as a Director in the Commercial National Bank of Providence for twelve years, commencing January 6, 1879, representing a family interest on his wife's side. (Mrs. Barstow's grand-father, Nathan Mason, had been for many years a Director in this bank.) He has been a Director of the City National Bank of Providence since January 9, 1877, and in the Slater Cotton Company of Pawtucket since 1889. He was Vice-President of the Providence & Springfield Railroad several years and arranged the sale of that property to the New York & New England Railroad in 1890, and has been connected with other railroad corporations. In 1873 and 1874 he was a Colonel on Governor Howard's personal staff. He was elected a Representative to the General Assembly on the Republican ticket in 1888, and shared in the general defeat of that ticket the two succeeding years. On retuning from a journey in France, Italy, Austria and Germany, he married, June 27, 1876, Miss Grace Mason Palmer, daughter of the late John Barstow Palmer, a well-known and successful manufacturing jeweler of Providence, whose mother was a Barstow from a Connecticut family, but the relationship is too remote to trace ; they have had four children : Amos Chafee, Jr., who died in June 1879, aged two years, Mary Mason, John Palmer and Grace Emeline Barstow.  Biographie Index

BARSTOW, George Eames, manufacturer, was born in Providence, November 1849, son of Amos Chafee and Emeline Mumford (Eames) Barstow.  The Barstow family came from the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and settled in Hanover, Mass., in 1636. His father, Amos C. Barstow, was one of the most prominent men in the city, in business, religious and public affairs, an ex-Mayor, and the holder of many important positions of trust. He received his education in the public schools and in Mowry & Goff's Classical School. He began his business career at seventeen years of age, acquiring a thorough knowledge of textile manufacturing, and receiving a complete training in business affairs.  Besides his successful business career, he has taken an active part in municipal, state and church affairs, and in public education. He was fourteen years a member of the School Committee, and for one year its President. He was for four years a member of the Common Council, and was elected a Representative in the General Assembly in 1894-95, and 1895-96. He took an active part in the formation of the Fourth Ward Republican Club, and for the past four years has been its President.   He is a member of the Rhode Island Historical Society Sons of the American Revolution, the Philadelphia Society for University Extension, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Hartford Theological Seminary. He married, October 19, 1871, Miss Drew Symonds; they have nine children : Caroline Hartwell, George Eames, Jr., Herbert Symonds, Helen Louise, Harold Carleton, Marguerite, Paris, Putnam and Donald Barstow.  Biographie Index

BOWEN, William Henry, M. D., Providence, was born in Scituate, R. I., April 18, 1840, son of Lyman and Phebe Ann (Burgess) Bowen. His father, born in the same town July 16, 1815, still survives; his mother, who was born in Johnston, R. I., May S, 1822, died August 29, 1856. The Bowen ancestors in America were of English origin and dated back to 1640, when Richard and Griffith Bowen came to this country from Glamorganshire, Wales, and settled, the former in Rehoboth, and the latter in Weymouth, Mass.   From these progenitors the Bowen families now living in Rhode Island are probably descended.   William Henry is a direct descendant of Richard Bowen. who lived and died in Rehoboth.   He was born and reared on a farm in the western part of the town of Scituate, the eldest of eight children, three of whom were girls.   At an early age he was put to work on the farm, and sent to school only winters.   Despite these disadvantages he early developed a taste for books and study, and when not more than twelve years old he had decided to become a doctor.   But the family was large and money was scarce, and not much help could be expected from his father; so at the age of fourteen he went to work for a neighboring farmer, in order to earn money for his education.   As soon as he had saved enough for the purpose, he entered Smithville Seminary, walking daily to and from the school, a distance of four miles.   In this way, by working out, and after a time by teaching school, he was able in five years, through hard work, rigid economy and close application, to prepare for college, and also to take extra courses in chemistry and the French language.   Three of the five years were spent at East Greenwich Academy.   At the age of nineteen he entered the office of Dr. Charles H. Fisher, in North Scituate, and commenced the study of medicine.  After the necessary preliminary study he entered Dartmouth College, graduating from that institution as Doctor of Medicine, October 30, 1863, at that time being but twenty-three years of age.   He immediately commenced practice in the village of Clayville, and after remaining there four years removed to Rockland in the town of Scituate, where he lived for twenty-one years.   After practicing in the country twenty-five years, he removed in November 1888 to the city of Providence, where he is now actively engaged in an extensive medical practice.   Dr. Bowen is a member of the Providence Medical Association and the Rhode Island Medical Society.   He is a Mason and a member of St. John's Commandery Knights Templar, and has been Master of Hamilton Lodge and High Priest of Scituate Royal Arch Chapter.   In politics he has always been an Independent; but notwithstanding his independence, he was elected to the School Committee of the town of Scituate for ten successive years, and was nine years Superintendent of Schools.   Dr. Bowen is quiet and reserved in manner, but decided and fearless when assailed, and always prompt, active, straightforward and self-reliant.    He labors hard to keep abreast with the best scientific thought and the improvement of the times, and whatever measure of success in life he may have achieved has been due to his own exertion, perseverance and hard work.  He was married, February 22, 1865, to Miss Phebe Smith Aldrich, daughter of Arthur Fenner Aldrich, who for many years was a leading citizen of Scituate ; two daughters and five sons were born to this union, four of whom are living : Cora Aldrich, Harry Lyman, William Henry and Frank Aldrich Bowen.  Biographie Index

BROWN, Daniel Russell, Governor of Rhode Island 1892-95, was born in Bolton, Conn., March 28, 1848, the son of Arba Harrison and Harriet Marilla (Dart) Brown. His early years were spent on his father's farm and in attendance at the district school. He received his final school education at an academy at Manchester, Conn., and in school at Hartford. After graduation he entered the employ of a hardware merchant in Rockville, Conn., and two years later became head salesman of a large hardware establishment in Hartford. In 1870 he removed to Providence where he took charge of the mill-supply store of Cyrus White.  He soon formed a partnership with William Butler & Son, who purchased Mr. White's business and formed the firm of Butler, Brown & Company. In 1877, on the demise of Mr. Butler, Mr. Brown formed the firm of Brown Bros. & Co., consisting of himself, his brother Col. H. Martin Brown, and Charles H. Child, which is now the largest mill-supply establishment in the country.   His business relations include banking and other financial enterprises, and he is Vice-President of the City Savings Bank, President of the Old Colony Co-operative Bank, and holds other offices of business importance and responsibility.   He early took an interest in municipal and state affairs, and was elected to the Common Council of Providence in 1880, serving for four years.    He declined a nomination for Mayor in 1886.   In 1888 he was Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket.   In 1892 he was elected Governor of Rhode Island, receiving a majority of the votes, the first time any candidate had done so since the extension of the franchise.  He was re-nominated in 1893 and held over on account of dispute between the two houses of the General Assembly in regard to the counting of the votes.   In 1894 he again received the nomination of the Republican party and was elected by a plurality of over sixty-five hundred, receiving the largest vote ever cast for a Governor of Rhode Island.   He is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Art, Athletic, Advance, Talma, West Side, Pomham and Providence Press clubs, also of the Board of Trade, Business Men's Association, Rhode Island Historical Society, Sons of American Revolution, Rhode Island Art Institute, President of the Bethany Home, and member of the Norfolk Club, Boston, and many other social and fraternal organizations.   He stands high in the rank of the Masonic order and has served in its most important offices.   He married Miss Isabel Barrows, October 14, 1874; they have three children : Milton Barrows, Isabel Russell and Hope Caroline Brown.  Biographie Index

BROWN, Col. H. Martin, merchant and manufacturer, Providence, was born in Bolton, Conn., April 28, 1850, son of Arba Harrison and Harriet (Dart) Brown. He comes of Revolutionary ancestry and his father was a prosperous farmer in Bolton and afterwards in Manchester, Conn. He received his early education in the public schools of Bolton and at the high school in Rockville, Conn. At the age of sixteen he entered the dry goods house of the Hon. E. Steven Henry of Rockville, Conn., and five years later was admitted as a partner. In December 1887, the firm of Henry & Brown was dissolved by mutual consent. January 1, 1888, he entered into partnership with his brother, ex-Governor D. Russell Brown, and Charles H. Child under the firm name of Brown Brothers & Co., which does a large and prosperous business in mill supplies. Mr. Brown is a Director in the National Ring Traveler Company, the Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Company, of Providence, and the Union Belt Company of Fall River, Mass. He was elected a member of the City Council from the Ninth Ward in 1890.  He was appointed Colonel and Chief of Staff by Governor Brown and served in that capacity from 1892 to 1895. He is a member of the Adolphoi Lodge, A. F. & A. M., St. John's Commandery, Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, also the Hope, Pomham, West Side and Congregational clubs, and the Providence Athletic Association. In politics he is a Republican. He married, February 9, 1875, Miss Annie W., daughter of G. L. North of Rockville, Conn; they have two children: Marion N. and A. Helen Brown.  Biographie Index

BUCKLIN, Edward Carrington, Treasurer of the Harris Manufacturing Company, Woonsocket, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 7, 1850, of Thomas P. and Eliza (Comstock) Bucklin.   He is a great-grandson of Captain Thomas Bucklin, who answered the alarm sounded on the 19th of April 1775, and was one  the "Minute Men" of the war of the Revolution.   He received his education at the Lyon's grammar school, Providence, boarding school in Vermont, and Mowry & Goff's Classical School of Providence.   After graduation he lived for two years on the frontier of Colorado, where he was a member of the Governor's Guard in Denver in 1871.   For one and a half years he was in a commission house in New York, and received a practical training in a cotton mill.   In 1878 he was elected Treasurer of the Arkwright Manufacturing Company, in 1877 Treasurer of the Harris Manufacturing Company, and in 1882 Treasurer of the Interlaken Mills.   He is now Treasurer of the Harris Manufacturing Company and the Interlaken Mills, the latter being a reorganization of the Arkwright Manufacturing Company.   He is Vice-President of the Providence Land and Wharf Company, and a Director of the National Bank of North America, the Providence Mutual Fire Insurance Company and the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Company.    He is a member of the Providence Athletic Association, of the Providence Art Club, and of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association. He married, February 4, 1874, Miss Jessie Howard, daughter of Ex-Governor Henry Howard ; they have had six children : Henry Howard (deceased), Edward Carrington, Jr. (deceased), Harris Howard, Thomas Peck, Janet and Dorothy Bucklin.  Biographie Index

CARPENTER, Phanuel Bishop, physician, was born in Seekonk, Mass., January 8, 1832, son of Job and Eliza (Bishop) Carpenter. He is the descendant of William Carpenter, one of three brothers, who left England on account of the persecution of the Quakers, and settled in Weymouth, Mass., in 1838. His son William settled in Rehoboth, now Seekonk, in 1645, where he was town clerk and delegate to the Plymouth General Court.  His descendants occupied prominent positions in town affairs and took part in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. Dr. Carpenter received his early education in the public schools and took a course in Worcester Academy. He began self-support at an early age, and was four years in the dry-goods business. For six years he conducted a boot and shoe business in Providence and Pawtucket, and for five years was engaged in the manufacture of jewelry.  During his active business life he was pursuing a system of self-education with a view to the adoption of the medical profession, and in 1868 he commenced the regular study of medicine in the office of Dr. George D. Wilcox of Providence where he remained for two years.   He entered Harvard Medical College in 1870 and took a course of study in the Eclectic Medical College of New York, and a course in the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter in 1872. From 1872 to the present time he has been in active practice in Providence.   He has been a member of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Medical Society for twenty-two years.   He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 10,  A. F. & A. M., of Pawtucket, R. I.; Unity Lodge, I. O. O. F.; Mazeppa Encampment, I O. O. F.; and Excelsior Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Providence, R. I.   He has not taken an active part in public life, but in politics he is a Republican.  In his religious views he is broad, liberal, and modern.   "Although his ancestors were Quakers in the strictest sense, and worshipped under the rigid doctrine of that sect, he himself throws aside all creeds and dogmas, believing earnestly in the progress of the human race and of the spirit after death, which, together with the daily practice of the Golden Rule, must ultimately bring man to that perfection in the future world as designed for him by the Creator."   He has had five children: Lita Barney, died in 1866 aged two years, William Huckins, Phanuel Bishop, Jr., Mary  Eliza and Hattie Ella Carpenter.  Biographie Index

CARR, George Wheaton, M. D, Providence, was born in Warwick, R. I., January 31, 1834, son of John and Maria (Brayton) Carr.   He is a descendant in the seventh generation of Robert Carr of Portsmouth and Newport, R. I., who was born in England in  1614 and died in Newport in 1681, leaving six children.   Robert and Caleb Carr, brothers, sailed from London in the ship Elizabeth and Ann in 1635, and settled in Newport, R. I. Caleb was subsequently Justice of General Quarter Sessions and the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1695 became Governor of the State of Rhode Island, under the Royal Charter.   Both Robert and Caleb had families, and became large landed proprietors, owners of Gould and Rose islands at Newport, with nearly the whole of Dutch and Conanicut islands, and extensive tracts of land in Narragansett and Coweset, purchased chiefly of the Indians. Robert's son Caleb married Phillis Greene, lived in Jamestown, R. I., and died there in 1690.   The latter's son Robert, born in Jamestown in 1683, married Hannah Hall, and had three children, and died in Warren, R. I.    His son Caleb, of Newport, born there in 1719, married Ruth Miller and had ten children, and died in 1767.   His son Caleb, of Warren, was born there in 1743, and married Lillis Barton of Warren, a cousin of Gen. William Barton, and granddaughter of Governor Samuel Gorton, who though suffering much at the hands of Massachusetts, came off finally triumphant, and in 1651 was Governor of the United Colonies of Providence and Warwick.   Captain Caleb Carr and his son, Captain John (born in Warren in 1771 and died there in 1815, having married Patty Davis and had eight children, were joint owners of the brig Rambler, which sailed from Baltimore in February 1799, under the command of Captain John Carr, was captured by a French privateer sailing under the authority of the French Republic, and was subsequently taken from them by a Spanish man-of-war, carried into the port of Barracoa and sold; the claim arising from this case was allowed by Congress under the provisions of the French Spoliation Act, and amounts to a considerable sum, not yet paid.   John's son John, of Warwick, who was born in Warren in 1795, married in 1824 Maria Brayton, had six children, and died in 1873, was the father of the subject of this sketch.   As indicative of his thoroughly Rhode Island ancestry, and to illustrate the custom of inter-marriage among the older families of the colonies, it may be stated that he is descended from a large number of prominent Rhode Island families, among others those of Brayton, Greene, Almy, Barton, Law, Rhodes, Arnold, Hail, Miller, Watson and Gorton.  George Wheaton Carr prepared for college at the Fruit Hill Classical Institute, at that time a flourishing seminary, and entered Brown University in 1853, graduating in the class of 1857 with the degree of Master of Arts. He was elected and served as Class Poet, and delivered the class poem on class day in Manning Hall. On leaving college he entered upon the study of medicine in the office of Dr. J. W. C. Ely, Providence. He pursued his studies at the National Medical College in Washington and in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1860. Returning to Providence he entered upon the practice of medicine and surgery, became Surgeon to the Providence Cadets and later was appointed Assistant Surgeon General of the State. The civil war broke out the following year and he was called away from private life. With other members of the General Staff of the State he was transferred to the first troops raised in Rhode Island, and commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the First Regiment Rhode Island Detached Militia, commanded by Colonel (afterwards General) A. E. Burnside. He continued with the regiment during its short but active service, serving under General Patterson in Maryland and General Winfield Scott at the battle of Bull Run. After the First Regiment was mustered out he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers, under Colonel (now General) Frank Wheaton, and was subsequently promoted to the post of Surgeon, serving in that capacity and as brigade operating surgeon, and as brigade surgeon in the Fourth and Sixth Army Corps, and in General Couch's Division, in the battles of Yorktown, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Rappahannock, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Hanover Junction, and in other engagements. At the close of the war Dr. Carr resumed the practice of his profession in Providence. He was admitted to the Rhode Island State Medical Society and to the Providence Medical Association in 1860, and from March 1870 to March 1872 was President of the latter organization. He was appointed Physician of the Rhode" Island State Prison in July 1868, and filled that position until the removal of that institution from Providence in 1878.  In 1868 he was appointed United States Examining Surgeon of Pensioners, and served twenty-five years; was Surgeon of the Rhode Island Hospital twenty years, receiving his appointment in 1868 and resigning in 1888; and was six years a member of the Board of Examiners of the Rhode Island Medical Society. He has been closely identified with the State Militia and National Guard, serving as Brigade Surgeon many years ; on the reorganization of the State Militia he was made Medical Director, and served in that capacity thirteen years.  He was the first Surgeon of the Grand Army of the Republic in the state, and for several years was Medical Director of that body.   He is also Consulting Physician of the Butler Hospital for the Insane, Consulting Surgeon of the Rhode Island Hospital and of St. Elizabeth's Home, and a member of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Medicine, and the Association of Military Surgeons of the National Guard. Dr. Carr was married. April 17, 1871, to Miss Imogen Matthewson, a lineal descendant of Dr. John Hoyle, prominent in the early annals of the city of Providence, whose character and benevolence not only made their impress upon the history of his time, but have perpetuated his name to the present day; and who in 1710-20, when the fires of religious controversy raged fiercely throughout the New England Colonies, proved himself, by deed and by gift, the defender and patron of freedom in religious worship. They had one child: George Wheaton Carr, Jr., born November 12, 1879, died March 16, 1881.  Biographie Index

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