GARVIN, Lucius Fayette Clark, physician and surgeon, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., November 13, 1841, son of James, Jr., and Sarah A. (Gunn) Garvin.   His paternal ancestors were among the early settlers of Vermont.   His maternal ancestors, including the  Gunn, Montague and Dickenson families, were settlers of Massachusetts and of English descent.   He received his early education in the public schools of Enfield and Sunderland, Mass.  He fitted for college in the New Garden School, now Guilford College, near Greenboro, N. C, having previously attended a private school in Greenboro, and entered Amherst College, Mass., at the age of sixteen.   He was graduated in the class of 1862, thirty-one years after the graduation of his father from the same institution.   In the autumn of 1862 he taught a public school in Ware, Mass., having previously taught in Sunderland during a part of his senior year in college.   Immediately upon attaining his majority he enlisted in Company E Fifty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, recruited in Worcester county.    The regiment served in North Carolina, under General Foster.   The march to Goldsboro, the burning of the bridge at that place to cut off the communications from  the south with Lee's army, and the engagements at Kingston, Whitehall and Goldsboro were the chief features of his experience in the army.   After the mustering out of his regiment he taught a select school in Leverett, Mass., where he began the study of medicine. Subsequently, he was a student with   Dr. Sylvanus Clapp of Pawtucket.   He was graduated from the Harvard Medical School, March 13, 1867, having passed a year prior to graduation as Interne at the Boston City Hospital.   In May 1867 he began the practice of medicine in Lonsdale, R. I, where he has continued to reside and actively practice since.  He has always taken an active interest in public affairs. He was a Republican until 1876, supporting Lincoln and Grant for the presidency, but in that year advocated the election of Samuel J. Tilden, and has ever since acted with the Democratic party.  Since 1880 he has been active in the propaganda of what he believes to be much needed reforms in the state. Beginning with 1883 he has been elected ten times to represent the town of Cumberland in the General Assembly, and is a member of the present House of Representatives. During this period he has aided in the enactment of the following eight popular measures, four of which were introduced by himself: The Ten Hour law, the Labor Bureau, the Extension of Suffrage, the Australian Ballot, Weekly Payments, Free Text-Books, Plurality Elections, and Factory Inspection. He regards proportional representation as the most important organic reform, and the single tax as the most important social reform, within the bounds of practical politics. For the past fifteen years he has urgently advocated a complete revision of the state constitution by means of a convention of the people ; but unless that is to be held at an early date, he favors as the next constitutional amendment the granting to registry voters in cities the right to vote for councilmen. He regards his efforts for the extension of the suffrage in Rhode Island from 1880 to 1888 as his greatest life work. He was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the second district in Rhode Island at the election in 1894.  Upon the passage of the Medical Examiner Act in 1884 he was appointed by Governor Bourn. Medical Examiner for the Seventh District, which embraces the town of Cumberland, and in 1890 was reappointed for six years by Governor Davis. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society, of the Providence Medical Association, of the Grand Army of the Republic (Ballou Post, Central Falls) and of the Bell Street Chapel Society of Providence.  He married, December 23, 1869, Miss Lucy W.  Southmayd of Middletown, Conn.; they have three children : Ethel, Norma and Florence Garvin.

GEORGE, Charles Henry, merchant and banker, Providence; was born in Foxboro, Mass., July 14, 1839 the son of Thomas M. and Rebecca S. (Farrington) George. He comes of good old New England stock, his ancestors having emigrated from England in the seventeenth century and settled in what is now the state of Maine, then a province of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He received his early education in the public schools of Foxboro. and at twelve years of age entered a hardware store in Providence, where he remained until he was fifteen. He then attended Bristol County Academy in Taunton, Mass., for a year and a half, after which he returned to his old position where he remained until he was twenty. He then started in the hardware business for himself, and since that time the firm of C. H. George & Company has been among the most prominent in its line in the state. He was elected a Director of the Roger Williams National Bank in 1873 and its President in 1879, and is a Director in several other banking institutions. He was President of the Board of Trade in 1891 and 1892. In 1887 he was appointed by President Cleveland, Postmaster of Providence, and held the office until July 1895, several years after the expiration of his commission.  He is a member of the Congregational Club, and was its President in 1890 and 1892.   He is a member of the Providence Press Club,  the Marine Order, and various social and fraternal associations In politics he is a Democrat.   He married, April 14, 1861, Miss Clarissa Jackson, who died September 4, 1880. He has three children: Edward A., now minister of the Congregational Church of Newport, Vt.; Grace T., wife of Wm. C. Dart, and Margaret Emerson George.

GOFF, Isaac Lewis, President and Director of real estate and investment companies, Providence, was born in Taunton, Mass., August 29, 1852, son of David F. and Clarissa D. (Stacey) Goff. He is of English descent and his ancestors were among the first settlers of New England in the Old Colony.  Four of his ancestors on both the paternal and maternal side were in the military service of the Colonies during the war of the Revolution. He received his early education in the common schools of Rehoboth, Mass., and at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College in Providence.   He entered the real estate office of William D. Peirce in Providence, in 1872, and continued there as clerk until 1876, when he engaged in the real estate business on his own account, which he has since continued.  He was prominent in the organization of the Home Investment Company, one of the most successful real estate and investment companies established in Rhode Island, which began business in 1891, with Governor D. Russell Brown as its first President. He has been the General Manager of the Home Investment Company from its organization to the present time. He is now President of the Isaac L. Goff Company and the People's Trust Company, and is the Treasurer of the Seaconnet Point Land Company and Director in several financial institutions. He has taken an active part in military and political life. He joined the United Train of Artillery in 1880, and was promoted to the offices of Second Lieutenant, Paymaster and Lieutenant-Colonel, which latter position he held until he was appointed by Governor Wetmore in 1885 an aide-de-camp on his personal staff with the rank of Colonel. He organized the Plumed Knights in 1889 and was chosen the first Commander, which office he still holds. In politics he has always been a Republican and has been actively engaged in political work since his majority. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Republican State Committee from 1886 to 1892. In 1888 he was an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention and in 1892 was a delegate to the National Convention at Minneapolis. He was the messenger to carry the vote of the State to Washington at the national election in 1892. He has always declined to be a candidate for public office. He married, in 1875, Miss Ada J. Richards, daughter of William R. Richards, a manufacturing jeweler of Providence; they have four children: William David, Josephine A., Lillian L. and Isaac L. Goff, Jr.

HARRIS, George Albert, physician and surgeon, was born in North Scituate, R. I., May 19, 1855, the son of James Arnold and Elizabeth Wheeler (Potter) Harris. He is descended from Gideon Harris, one of the earliest settlers of the town of Scituate. Gideon was born March 15, 1714. and was the great-grandson of Thomas Harris, who in company with his brother William, Roger Williams, and others, sailed from Bristol, England, in the ship Lyon, William Peirce master, December 1, 1630, landing at Nantasket, Mass., on the 5th of February following; he settled in Providence in 1638 and died there in 1686. Dr. Harris received his early education at Lapham Institute, North Scituate, graduating in the class of 1873. After graduation he taught school for a year, and then passed two years in railroad surveying under Edward Everett, a nephew of the statesman of the same name.

He began the study of medicine in 1876 with his maternal uncle, Dr. Albert Potter of Chepachet, and graduated from the Columbia College Medical School (the College of Physicians and Surgeons), New York, in the class of 1880. He first settled at Greenville, R. I, and remained there nearly a year, when he was called to Chepachet on account of the illness of his preceptor, and has remained there since. He has been a member of the school committee for nine years. He has been Medical Examiner for District No 3 Providence county, since 1884. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the Rhode Island Medico-Legal Society. He has always been greatly interested in musical affairs and has been chorister of the Chepachet Church for the past seven years. He was converted under the ministry of Rev. Richard K. Wickett. He has been treasurer of the church since 1887, and deacon since 1893. He has been active in the Christian Endeavor movement.   In politics he is a Republican. A careful and conscientious practitioner of medicine, he yet believes that the truest " Men of Progress" are those who work most industriously for the spiritual welfare of their fellowmen. He married, June 2, 1879, Miss Ella Louise Smith: they have had one child : Amey Elizabeth, born and died June 6, 1889.

HEMENWAY, Herbert Lewis, late Resident Manager in Providence for Norcross Brothers, contractors and builders of Worcester, Mass., was born March 2, 1864, in North Leverett, Mass., the son of Elihu and Hepsibath Mary (Loring) Hemenway. His ancestry on the father's and mother's side were of good old New England stock, of English descent with some admixture of Dutch and Irish.   He received his early education in the "little red school-house " at North Leverett, the high school at Montague, Mass., and   Powers Institute at Bernardston, Mass.    He graduated from Eastman's National Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1881.   He worked on his father's farm at North Leverett, when not attending school, until 1880.  In 1880 and part of 1881 he was employed in the New Home Sewing Machine Company's factory. After his course in the business college he worked as an apprentice at the carpenter's trade with J. L. Carll, of Greenfield, Mass.   In the winter of 1882-83 ne was bookkeeper for Emit Weissbrod, manufacturer of pocketbooks at Montague, Mass., and in the summer of 1883 was employed as a carpenter by John Huxley, of Northampton, Mass.    In September 1883 he entered the employ of Bartlett Brothers, contractors and builders, of East Whately, Mass., afterwards North Adams, Mass., to complete his mechanical education.   In 1885 he became foreman carpenter for the firm in the construction of the Belchertown Library.   He was superintendent of construction of the Dedham Library in 1887-88, severing his connection in June 1888 to enter the employ of Norcross Brothers, and superintended the construction of the station at Springfield of the Boston & Albany Railroad in 1888-91, and of the Youth's Companion Building, Boston, in 1891-92.  He has been resident manager of the firm in Providence since 1892, and superintended the construction of the Industrial Trust Company's building, the Telephone building, a large building for the Brown & Sharpe Company, and other important works.   On December 14, 1895, he terminated his relations with Norcross Brothers, and intends entering into the building business on his own account at an early date.   He is a member of Constellation Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Dedham,  Mass.: Royal Arch Chapter, Providence; Providence Council, R. & S. M.; St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar; Providence Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, and Palestine Temple, A. O. N. M. S.   He is a member of the Providence Athletic Club.   In politics he is an Independent Republican.   He married, March 28, 1889, Miss Alice Maud Spaulding; they have two children: Carlotta Effie and Loring Spaulding Hemenway.

HILL, Lester Seneca, physician and surgeon, was born in Foster, R. I., December 19, 1843, son of Jirah and Amey Whipple (Ormsbee) Hill. He received his early education in the district schools and his physical training on the paternal farm, where " the trees grew big and the rocks grew bigger." During the civil war he enlisted, September 1861, at the age of seventeen, in Battery E, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, and served in First Division, Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, till December 1863, when he was appointed Second Lieutenant Company F, Fourteenth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, serving with this regiment in the Department of the Gulf until October 1865.   He was at the siege of Yorktown, the battle of Williamsburg, the Seven Days' battles before Richmond, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg.   On the completion of his term of service he resumed his studies and graduated from Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., in 1870.   He entered the Medical College of the University of the City of New York, and graduated in 1872 with the degree of M. D.   He then commenced the practice of medicine in Providence, where he has remained since.   He has been a member of the School Committee of Providence for fifteen years.   He was elected a Member of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly in 1872-73.   He has been Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Rhode Island, and is a member of the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter A. F. & A. M. of Rhode Island.   He was Medical Director of the Department  of Rhode Island G. A. R. for three years.    He is a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of Loyal Legion.  In 1894 he was assistant surgeon-general of Rhode Island Militia, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.  He is a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the Rhode Island Medical Society.   In politics he is a Republican.

HOLBROOK, Albert, manufacturer, Providence, was born in Providence, February 5, 1813, son of Abel and Sally (Hopkins) Holbrook. He was one of the originators of the firm of A. & C. W.  Holbrook, manufacturers of raw-hide goods, principally at first of loom pickers, but developing into numerous other articles composed of that material.  This business is at the present time managed by his three sons, George A., Albert, Jr., and Charles W. Holbrook 2nd. At its origin, in 1842, the firm name was the same as today, the Charles W. Holbrook associated with him being his brother, about six years his junior. His paternal ancestral line, so far as known, starts from Thomas Holbrook, who emigrated from England in 1635 and settled in Weymouth, Mass., and runs through John, Ichabod, David, Ichabod, Nathaniel, Abel and Albert Holbrook. The ancestral home was soon changed to Braintree, Mass., where Abel was born April 5, 1788. About the year 1812 Abel removed to Providence, where he became acquainted with Sally Hopkins and made her his wife. Sally's ancestral line ran from Thomas Hopkins, son of William and Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins, born in England, April 7, 1616, and continuing through Thomas, Amos, Uriah, Sally and Albert. Four children were born to Abel and Sally: Albert, February 5, 1813; Harriet, June 23, 1814; Charles, July 21, 1816; who died in childhood : and Charles William, January 6, 1819. Mr. Holbrook's early life was very inauspicious, being left fatherless when six years old and motherless before the age of twelve. In his twelfth year, November 1824, he was sent to live with Benjamin Lewis, who had married a relative, with the understanding that he was to serve an apprenticeship with Mr. Lewis, learning the trade as a mason. This arrangement was early, and it might be said prematurely, entered upon, for in the early summer following his twelfth birthday he was found engaged as a bricklayer on a building being erected at the North End in Providence, by William Randall. This was followed up by a continuance in the various branches of the mason trade, which then embraced many features now divided up into separate and special pursuits and vocations.  For about ten months in 1827-8 he labored upon the Providence Arcade, and at the time of this writing (1895) is probably the only living person who was engaged in this department of its construction.  Among other prominent buildings in the construction of which he was engaged was the Newport Steam Factory, in the summer of 1831, followed in the autumn of that year by a short service on the Number One Mill of the Lonsdale Company in Smithfield. In 1833, April 30, at the solicitation of his uncle, Benjamin Holbrook, who was a member of the firm of  J. Cunliff & Co., manufacturers of loom pickers, he entered into their employment and continued in this position until August 1842, when he associated with his brother, as before noted. This connection lasted until June 1868, when Charles retired, and Albert's sons, as hereto-fore stated, joined with their father in the continuance of the business. Advancing age with its infirmities prompted his retirement from the firm after his three sons were established, but his personal interest in its growth and success remains un-abated.   He has also been greatly interested in genealogical and historical matters, and for the past twenty years or more has devoted much time to research and investigation in this line of study, embodying many of the results of his labors in publications of various kinds, through the press and periodicals as well as in pamphlet and book form. His efforts in this line of work have been of great public value and widespread interest, generally taking a broad range, covering a large field, and his services have been ever and freely at the command of any and all inquirers who have approached him with general or specific queries relating to his favorite subjects in which they were interested. That such service has been keenly appreciated is evidenced by the many authors whose acknowledgments appear in their publications, and by the multitude of letters of inquiry he has received from different persons resident in the state and abroad. The class of historical matter, outside the genealogical, to which he has especially devoted himself, is mainly confined to details pertaining to the North End, in Providence. A serial of several numbers, entitled "Ancient North End Landmarks, by an Old Resident," covered a large field and showed up the forgotten origin of many old homesteads, with details of the personal history of some of the people connected with them. In the genealogical field, one of his most interesting works was published in 1881, entitled " One Line of the Hopkins Family," covering the line of Governor Stephen Hopkins and his brother the Commodore, but not the one from which the author descended; although comparatively brief, it embraces nearly every male member belonging to the line that bore the name of Hopkins, and all females born of that line. The line to which the author belongs were more numerous - excessively so: he intended to follow this out, but the task was beyond his strength, with his numerous other cares, although under the title of "Notes on the Hopkins Family" he contributed several articles to the Narragansett Historical Register. At an early period in his life he was very familiar with the famous Commodore's family then living, and was frequently sent to the old homestead on errands, briefly alluded to in the genealogical work referred to. As his grandfather Uriah Hopkins and the Commodore were second cousins, the association between the author's people and the Commodore's descendants continued until most of the latter had passed away. The subject of this sketch was married, January 8, 1838, to Miss Abby Olney Angell, who was born June 23, 1811, and died December 24, 1886; five children were born to them: George Abel, October 14, 1838, graduated at Brown University, class of 1861 ; Frank Pinckney, May 14, 1842, died young: Albert, Jr., October 7, 1845, Charles William, September 10, 1848, and Uriah Hopkins Holbrook, November 10, 1850, graduated at Brown University 1874 and at Harvard Medical School in 1877, entered into practice as a physician in Providence with promising success, but died suddenly May 8, 1884.

HORTON, Horace Francis, real estate dealer, Providence, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., January 2, 1838, son of Ellis and Mary Eliza (Craw) Horton. He received his early education in the public schools and at Schofield's Commercial College, Providence. He first engaged in the grocery business in co-partnership with Major E. S. Horton, from 1859 to 1861, and from 1864 to 1872 with Henry J. Anthony. From 1872 to the present time he has been engaged in the real estate, mortgage and insurance business, giving special attention to the development of land in the vicinity of Providence. He has taken an active part in the religious work of the Baptist society, and has been for twenty-three years Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Jefferson Street Church. He was President of the Rhode Island Baptist Sunday School Convention in 1878 and 1879, and was President of the Rhode Island Baptist Social Union in 1893. He is a director in the executive board of the Rhode Island Baptist State Convention. He married, January 15, 1862, Miss Susan M. Anthony; they have six children : Henry F., Annie M., Clarence H., Fred E., Marion L. and Laura E. Horton.

HOWARD, Hiram, manufacturer of silverware, was born in West Woodstock, Windham county, Conn., November 26, 1834, son of Warner and Mary (Taft) Howard. He is descended from good old New England stock, and is connected with the Taft, Olney, Knowlton and Ellis families of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, at the academies at Ashford and South Woodstock in the same county, and at Dr. Cook's private school for boys in Webster, Mass. At the age of eighteen he left school and settled in Providence, where he commenced his business career. In 1857 he went to New York, where he engaged in the wholesale jewelry business until the breaking out of the war in 1861. September 18, 1861, he enlisted in the Second Regiment of Artillery, New York Volunteers, serving at first as Second Lieutenant, and afterward as First Lieutenant and Adjutant.  He remained in the army until July 1864, nearly three years, when he returned to New York, and again engaged in the jewelry business. In 1881 he returned to Providence and embarked in the manufacture of jewelry, which he conducted successfully for several years, and then engaged in the manufacture of sterling silverware. At the present time he is president of the Howard Sterling Silverware Company, Providence, his son Stephen C.  being associated with him in the management. He has taken an active interest in public affairs and in the social and economic questions of the day.  In May 1877 the New York Free Trade Club was formed and he became a member in July of the same year, retaining his membership until it was merged into the Reform Club of New York, of which he is consequently one of the oldest members. In 1890-91 he was elected a Representative to the General Assembly from Providence on the Democratic ticket, and in 1889 was the candidate of his party for the Mayoralty. He was appointed and served as a member of the Rhode Island Commission to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. In politics he has always been a staunch Democrat, as were his father and grandfather before him. He is a member of the Advance Club, the Providence Athletic Association, the Providence Press Club, the Reform Club of New York, and other societies and organizations.

JACKSON, Charles Akerman, artist and portrait painter, Providence, was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., August 13, 1857, son of Charles E. and Caroline E. (Akerman) Jackson. His paternal ancestors were William and Sarah Jackson of Portsmouth, N. H., and on the maternal side Charles and Lucy E. Akerman of Providence. He received his early education in the public schools of Boston (Jamaica Plain). He entered the wholesale dry goods trade at the age of sixteen, as stock boy, and at twenty was a traveling salesman, traveling and visiting the largest cities in the West and South. He traveled extensively as road salesman, until he decided to adopt the art of portrait painting as a profession.  He always had this predilection for art, and at the age of ten painted a portrait of his mother; but his parents did not favor the profession for a livelihood. Having strong musical tastes, they allowed him tuition on the church organ under W. J. D.  Leavitt of Boston. At one time he thought he would make this his profession; but he was passionately fond of portraits, and during his spare time kept up his practice of painting and drawing.  Many spare moments during his travels he spent in visiting studios, and in observing artists of reputation at their work; also in private study with artists, among whom he greatly values the teaching of his friend, John N. Arnold. He also studied numerous text books, among which he considers those of Rubens and Bouvier the most valuable.  With many misgivings, he commenced to devote a portion of his time to portrait painting; and soon after, in 1891, he began devoting his entire time to the painting of portraits, and has met with un-questionable success. His style is refined and chaste, and his portraits of women and children excel in that subtle delicacy of flesh tones so charming to the eye and so alluring to the senses.  His portraits of men are carefully finished and truthfully painted, and show a positive avoidance of the " impressionist " school.     Confining himself solely to portraiture, and having inborn that natural gift, so rare, of obtaining a likeness, it is but natural that the demand for his portraits should be large and that demand constantly increasing. Among his more prominent portraits are those of S. N.  Lougee, ex- President of the West Side Club: Mayor Frank F. Olney, for the City Hall; City Messenger Edward S. Rhodes, for the City Hall; John Whipple Potter Jenks, for Brown University: Stephen W. Griffin, Town Clerk of Coventry, for Town Hall: Col. W. W. Brown, for the .Infantry Veteran Association ; Prof. Thomas Metcalf for State Normal University, III.: Albert Metcalf, Treasurer Dennison Tag Company, Boston, and Dr. A J. Gordon of Boston.   He is a member of Suffolk Council Royal Arcanum of Boston, and also a member of the West Side Club of Providence.

JACKSON, Frank Hussey, attorney-at-law, Providence, was born at Nobleboro, Lincoln county. Me., July 11, 1843, son of Joseph Jr., and Arletta G.  (Flagg) Jackson.   He is the eldest of nine children.  His father was the son of Joseph Jackson, and he was the son of Captain Jackson, a Revolutionary soldier, whose father came from the north of Ireland.   His mother was the daughter of John Flagg, and he was the son of Rev. Samuel Flagg of Boston, Mass., a Revolutionary soldier, who was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and continued with the army until the British surrendered at Yorktown. His parents removed to Jefferson, Me., when he was about a year old, and lived on a small farm. His father was a farmer and ship carpenter.   He attended the common schools and high school at Jefferson.   After he was twelve years old he worked on the farm and attended school until 1861, when he worked for a neighboring farmer for six dollars a month during the summer season, attending school the next winter.   In the summer of 1862 he worked on a farm for nine dollars a month, and in the winter of 1862 and 1863 taught school for fifteen dollars a month.   In the fall of 1863 he entered Lincoln Academy. Newcastle, Me., receiving his education at that institution, and supporting himself by teaching school.   In 1856 he entered the law office of Henry Farrington, Esq., Waldoboro, Me., and on the eighth day of May, 1867, entered the law office of Hon. Lorenzo Clay, at Gardiner, Me.; was admitted to the Kennebec bar, November 1867. He taught school the following winter and summer of 1868, was nominated for Clerk of Courts for Lincoln county on the Democratic ticket and received the largest vote of any of the candidates on the same ticket, only lacking thirty-four votes of an election in a total vote of over five thousand. In September 1869 he opened a law office at Hallowell, Me., and was City Solicitor of Hallowell from 1870 to 1878. He supported himself all the time he was at Lincoln Academy and a law student by teaching school, and received no aid from any one. January 1, 1879, he came to Providence and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar. He entered into partnership with Colonel Daniel R Ballou and the co-partnership continued until July 1895, having during his practice at Hallowell and in Providence enjoyed a large and lucrative business.  In 1880 he was admitted to the bar of the United States. In 1870 he was the junior counsel for the defendant in the celebrated case of State vs. Hoswcll, who was indicted and tried at Augusta, Me., for the murder of John Laflin. The State was represented by Hon. Thomas It. Reed, then Attorney-General of Maine, and the Hon. Wm. P. Whitehouse, County Attorney, now Justice of the Supreme Court of Maine. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. In Providence he has been engaged in several important damage cases and has enjoyed a large practice. He never was a candidate for any office in Rhode Island: he has been offered nominations by his party, but always declined them. He joined Olive Branch Lodge, I. O. O. F., in 1882 at Providence and is now a member of the order. He is a member of the Providence Athletic Association and the Rhode Island Business Men's Association. In politics he was always a Democrat, and took an active part in the election of 1884-1888, the Congressional election of 1890 and the election of 1892. He married, January 27, 1875, Miss Ella A. Owen, of Waltham, Mass.  they have two children: Frank H., Jr., and Walter N. Jackson.

JONES, Augustine, Principal of the Friends' School, Providence, was born October 16, 1835, in China, Me , the son of Richard M and Eunice (Jones) Jones. His father's and mother's families, both Jones, were united some generations previous.  The family, which is of Welch origin, settled in Hanover, Mass., where his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, a Quaker, was residing in 1730. His father's mother was Susannah Dudley, descended directly from Thomas Dudley, the second Governor of Massachusetts, who fought as a captain under Henry IV of France. He received his early education at the district schools, at the Friends' School in Providence, and at Yarmouth Academy, Me. He entered Bowdoin College and graduated in the class of 1860, the largest the college ever had. Among his classmates were Hon. Thomas B. Reed, Hon.  W. W. Thomas, United States Minister to Sweden, Judge Joseph W. Symonds of Portland, Me., and Gen. John M. Brown. As a boy he worked on the farm until the age of sixteen, and supported himself during his educational course by teaching district schools and academies. He entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1867. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar the same year, and began practice in the office of Gov. John A. Andrew, with whom he had previously been a student for a year and a half. He continued in practice there for twelve years, until 1879, when he came to Providence to become Principal of the Friends' School.

He was administrator of the estate of Governor Andrew, and, with his associate Albert B. Otis, took into the office Hon. John F. Andrew, the eldest son of the governor, recently deceased, who remained there three years and a half, and with Mr. Otis retained the office after 1879. He had great fondness for the law and good success in it, but was induced to give himself for the remainder of his life to the instruction of the rising generation. In 1874 he was named by John G. Whittier, at the request of Rev.  James Freeman Clark, to deliver an essay at the Church of the Disciples, on the Society of Friends, it being the eighth in the series by different denominations upon the " Universal Church."   This essay was published, and vigorously attacked by certain orthodox Friends, but Whittier said, "There was nothing to be added to it or taken from it as a statement of Quaker doctrine." He read a paper on Nicholas Upsall before the New England Historical-Genealogical Society, which was printed in the Register for January 1880, and published in pamphlet form. Whittier wrote of this, " Thou hast done an essential service to truth and justice." He was a Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature from Lynn, Mass, in 1878, but the next year was beaten by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and the green-back craze in an exciting election after receiving more votes than in his previous election. In 1890 he was sent by the Friends Society and the American Peace Society as a delegate to the London Peace  Congress.     Regarding his work in the Friends' School, the following is an extract from the Phoenix Park, published by the students of the Friends' School in 1889 : "The school goes on, old students yielding their places to the new and ever carrying with them the remembrance of the kindly influence and true examples of the good old school.  But a history of the school would not be complete without some mention of its Principal, to whose influence and energetic efforts its success in latter years has been due.   Augustine Jones, LL. B., was formerly a law student of the late John A. Andrew, the War Governor of Massachusetts.   In answer to the need of the school he became its Principal in 1879, leaving a flourishing law practice in order to do so    He devoted himself with all his powers to the advancement of the school, and the improvements of the last few years have been in a large part due to his earnest endeavors and personal assistance.   His views of education are broad and liberal and his every thought is given to the advancement and progress of the institution. Beloved as he is by all who have felt his influence, and honored by his pupils, I can only echo the wish of one of the alumni who has said: -

            The old fifth century bad its saint,

            Augustine, pure and wise;

            May troops of students nurtured here

            His namesake canonize.

By   personal influence he has brought over one  hundred  thousand dollars in funds to the institution.   He has published several pamphlets on moral, religious and other topics, among them one on "Parks and Tree-Lined Avenues;" one on " Peace and Arbitration,"  which has been published in several editions, reaching more than one hundred and ten thousand copies, and largely distributed at home and abroad; one on " Moses Brown," the founder of many institutions in Rhode Island, read in 1892 before the Rhode Island Historical Society and published  by its direction; and one the same year on Robert Burns, before the Advance Club, which drew the following letter from Mr. Whittier : -

Newburyport, 3rd mo. 7, 1892.

My Dear Friend:

I thank thee for sending thy eloquent and just address on Burns. Read it with greatsatisfaction. There is nothing illiberal or bigoted in it. Burns was not a Quaker; be had faults; but he did a noble work for Scotland and humanity.

He sweetened an atmosphere bitter with Calvinism. Again thanking thee, I am Thy old friend,

John G. Whittier,

He is a member of the Society of Friends, of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Bowdoin Chapter, New England Historical-Genealogical Society, President of the Advance Club and the Public Park Association of Providence. He has been a Republican from the start to the present time, having cast his first vote for Fremont. He married, October 10, 1867, Miss Caroline Alice Osborne; they have two children : Caroline R. and William A. Jones.

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