KENDRICK, John Edmund, of Providence, United States Marshal for Rhode Island, and prominent as a manufacturer, was born in Providence, June 17, 1854, the son of John and Lurana D.  (Cook) Kendrick. His ancestry on both sides were among the earliest settlers in Massachusetts j on his mother's side he is connected with the family of Gen Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill, and on his father's he is descended from Oliver Kendrick, who served in the Revolutionary army. He received his early education in the public schools and in Mowry & Goff's Classical School of Providence. He matriculated at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in the class of 1876. After graduation he was for three years in the wholesale drug business, and since 1877 he has been connected with the Kendrick Loom Harness Company and the American Supply Company, of which he is now the Vice-President. He has .taken a warm interest in educational affairs, and since 1887 has been a member of the School Committee of Providence, serving on many sub-committees.   He has been a member of the Common Council since 1890, and is now, 1896, its President, and served as a Representative in the General Assembly in 1891-92. He was appointed by President Harrison United States Marshal for Rhode Island in 1892, which office he now holds. He was one of the active organizers and for many years President of the Young Men's Republican Club of Providence, is President of the Mowry & Goff Alumni Association, Vice-President of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Brown University Alumni Association, and is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Masonic Order to the thirty-second degree, and various social clubs. In politics he is a Republican. He married, October 24, 1877, Miss Phoebe Elizabeth Champlin of Westerly, R. I., who died in 1892. In 1894 he married Miss Helena Boyce of Fairfax, Vt., and they have one son, John Boyce Kendrick.

KENNEY, William Francis, M. D., Providence, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 19, 1854, son of Francis W.  and  Margaret  M. (Daley) Kenney.   His father came to this country from Dublin, Ireland, in 1834. and was engaged in the copper, sheet-iron and tin trade, carrying on business in Hartford, Conn., for forty-five years. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Hartford, after which he attended Georgetown University, Georgetown. D. C, and graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in 1877, with honors, being first toastmaster of his class.   He acted as substitute house surgeon in the Bellevue and Charity hospitals in 1876-77, and after graduation located (April 1, 1877) in Providence, where he has since continued in active practice of his profession. In 1879 he was appointed Surgeon of the Fifth Battalion of Infantry, Rhode Island Militia, serving in that capacity three years. He was elected a member of the Common Council from the Third Ward in 1885-86, and was again elected to that body in 1895-96. He is a Democrat in politics. Dr. Kenney belongs both professionally and socially to various fraternal and social organizations. He has been Surgeon of Court Canonicus, Ancient Order of Foresters, 1889-93; Medical Examiner of Court Roger Williams, A. O. O. F. of America, 1893-95 : Supreme Surgeon General of Supreme Conclave K S. F. of the World, 1893-95; is Medical Examiner St.  George Lodge, No. 14, Knights of Pythias, and of Endowment Rank, Section 81, Knights of Pythias; Past Commander Knights of the Mystic Chain; also a member of the Select Castle of the last-named order, Westminster Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Wolf Tone Literary Association. He is also a fellow of the Georgetown Alumni Association, a fellow of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and member of the Rhode Island Medical Society. Dr.  Kenney was married, July 17, 1876, to Miss Elizabeth M. A. Murray: they have eight children : Maud A. E, Blanche M., William F., Stephen C, Francis J., Margaret M., David A. and Elizabeth Kenney.

LANGSTAFF, Alfred M., bandmaster, was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, January 30, 1866, son of George and Jane (Wiskar) Langstaff. His ancestors on both sides for generations have been county squires in England, possessing considerable property, and being greatly respected. He came to the United States at an early age, and received his education in the public schools. Having strong musical tendencies he took up the study of music at the age of sixteen, receiving instruction from some of the best masters in this country on several instruments and in the theory of music and composition.  He was quick to learn and was soon admitted to an orchestra, and since that time he has been constantly advancing and perfecting himself in the theory and practice of music. Mr. Langstaff is the author of many notable compositions for church, band and orchestra. He at present holds the position of Bandmaster to the National Band of Providence, to which he was elected by unanimous vote on the death of the former leader, Thomas W. Hedly.  This is a long established and well-known band, and since the advent of Mr. Langstaff has taken a high rank among the military bands of the country.  He was one of the founders of the musical society of the Wandering Bards, has received all the honors at the disposal of the society, and was made its first life member. He is a member of the Providence Athletic Association. He married, March 19, 1889, Miss Maud Marion Daniels; they have no children living.

LAPHAM, Benjamin Newell, attorney-at-law, Providence, was born in Smithfield, R. I., April 28, 1821, the son of Alfred and Rebecca (Newell) Lapham. He is of Rhode Island stock, the paternal grandfather being William Lapham and his maternal Benjamin Newell. He received his early education in the public schools of Burrillville, then very poor ones, until he was sixteen years of age.  About that time he heard Samuel Y. Atwell, an eloquent lawyer, argue a case, and was so much delighted that he determined to become a lawyer.  He prepared for college by studying by himself and going on horseback to Chepachet, where he recited his lessons to the late Hon. George H. Brown a part of the time and part of the time to Alfred Bosworth, then a young lawyer in the office of Mr. Atwell, and afterwards one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.   He entered Brown University in 1838.   After three years' study his health gave out and he lived on his father's farm for a year. He then returned to college and graduated in 1843.  He studied law in the office of Samuel Y. Atwell in Chepachet for a year until the death of the latter and then for a year in the office of Richard W.  Greene of Providence, who was then United States District Attorney and afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of Rhode Island.  He was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1845, and commenced practice in Providence, January 1, 1846.   He attended sedulously to his profession and acquired a large practice.   He was City Solicitor of Providence, 1863-65, member of the General Assembly 1863-64 and 1880-81, of the Providence Common Council 1869-71, of the Board of Aldermen 1876-82 and of the State Senate 1876-77-82-83.  He was also for many years a member of the School Committee. In politics he was a Democrat until the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States, when he became a Republican and has remained one ever since. He married, June 24, 1847, Miss Sophia M. Page; they have had four children: Sophie P., now wife of John D. Lewis, Julia B, Eliza B. and Louis P., all deceased except Mrs. Lewis.

LATHAM, Joseph Augustus, civil engineer, was born in Providence, December 6, 1850, son of Joseph Stanton and Jane Ellen (Bulkley) Latham. His father was born in Windsor, Conn., and is a descendant of the William Latham whose name appears on the tablet in Pilgrims Hall, Plymouth, as one of the passengers on the Mayflower. His mother's ancestry, the Bulkley family of Connecticut, also came to this country in the Mayflower, so that he is of the best Pilgrim stock on both sides.  He received his early education in the public and private schools of Providence, and left Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College to enter the employ of John Howe, civil engineer of Providence, with whom he studied three years, and was subsequently employed by him until together they bought a large granite ledge in Smithfield, and for two years he took full charge, getting out a large amount of granite for the city of Providence for the work about the Sockanosset pumping station. They also furnished the granite for the caps and foundation stone for the Butler Exchange, Providence. In 1873 the ledge business was sold and he entered the employ of S. B. Cushing & Co., civil engineers, of Providence, where he remained for two years, leaving to take charge of the surveying department of a real estate establishment in Providence. He remained about three years with this firm when he opened an establishment for himself in civil engineering, and has continued in the practice of his profession until the present time. He has made bridge building a specialty and erected many in the vicinity of Providence.   He was chief engineer for the Pontiac Branch Railroad, until it was leased by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Company. He made a preliminary surrey of the Ponegansett Railroad from Providence to Danielson, Conn. He is a Methodist, was reared in and is a member of the Matthewson Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Providence. He has been Superintendent of the Sunday School for six consecutive years, has been a trustee of the church for several years, and is a member of the building committee for the erection of a new church edifice, which will be a model as well as a novel church building.   He is also a member of the building committee for the erection of the new Edgewood Methodist Episcopal Church, now in process of erection. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Providence Chapter and Council, of Calvary Commandery, and is a " Shriner " and thirty-second degree Mason. He has always been an active member of the Republican party of Cranston, and was a member of the school committee for sixteen consecutive years, holding the office of Superintendent of Schools for three years. He married, November 28, 1874, Miss Hattie K. Tuller, of Simsbury, Conn.; they have four children : Hattie L., Eva J., Charles B. and Arthur B. Latham.

MASON, Robert Durfee, president of the Robert D Mason Company, Pawtucket, was born in Pawtucket, March 10, 1832, son of Robert Durfee and Mehitabel Tyler (Merry) Mason. His father was a son of Pardon and Annie (Hale) Mason, and his mother a daughter of Barney and Phila Benson (Tyler) Merry. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Pawtucket, and received his training for active life in the dyeing and bleaching establishment of his uncle Samuel Merry. Mr. Merry had succeeded his father, Barney Merry, who established the business in 1805. Mr. Mason succeeded his uncle in 1870, after being in company with him for four years, and has since been sole owner of the business, until 1889, when his son Frederic became associated with him as partner. In 1892 the business was incorporated under the name of The Robert D. Mason Company, with Robert D. Mason as President and Frederic R. Mason Treasurer. Mr.  Mason is a Republican in politics, but has not sought nor accepted public office. He was, however, an efficient member of the Pawtucket Water Board for fourteen years. He was married, in 1852, to Miss Mary Bicknell Nicholas, who died in 1890; and in 1893 he married Miss Mary Adeline Havens. He has by his first wife two children: Frederic Robert and Ella Frances Mason.

METCALF, Harold, physician and surgeon, was born in Providence, November 25, 1860, son of Levi and Georgiana (Tucker) Metcalf. On his paternal side his ancestors were early settlers of Dedham, Mass., although for many generations they have belonged to Rhode Island. His great-great-grandfather on the maternal side was Daniel Mowry, who was a Member of the Continental Congress in 1781-82. His maternal ancestors are well-known families in North Smithfield and adjacent towns. He received his early education in the public schools and high schools of Providence, and entered Brown University, graduating in the class of 1884. While in college he taught evening schools, was clerk in a hat store, worked on a farm and at other employments. He adopted medicine as a profession and studied in the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1887 with the degree of M. D. He was Externe on the surgical side of the Rhode Island Hospital, and Dispensary Physician, during his year's residence in Providence when he removed to Wickford, R. I., and took a practice left vacant by the ill-health of the former incumbent. He was Physician to the Soldiers' Home while at Wickford before its removal to Bristol. He was appointed Medical Examiner by Gov. H. W. Ladd in 1889 and re-appointed in 1895 by Gov. C. W. Lippitt. He is examiner for the Mutual and Equitable Life Insurance Companies.  He is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity and of the Sons of the American Revolution. In politics he is a Republican of the independent class, but has always avoided public life, preferring to devote himself to his profession. He married, July 31, 1889, Miss Mary Anna Barney; they have four children: Mary L., George T., John T.  and Paul B. Metcalf.

MORROW, Robert, Manager of the Providence Opera House, was born in New York City, September 28,1838, the son of John and Ann E. (Moore) Morrow. His father was an architect by profession, and his ancestors on both sides were Scotch, He received his early education in private schools and was in a boarding school until 1852. He then went to sea and was second mate of the schooner James T. Brady before he was eighteen of years of age.   During the course of his seafaring life he visited Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and was for two years on the coast of Africa. He served in the American navy from 1856 to 1859.  He came to Providence in the latter year and has remained here until the present time. He has been engaged successfully in various business enterprises- the grocery and liquor and livery-stable business. In 1877 he became a member of the firm of Hopkins & Morrow, Managers of the Theatre Comique in Providence, and in 1885 became sole Manager of the Providence Opera House, which he has conducted with success to the present time. He also manages an extensive brokerage business in stocks and bonds. He was an active fireman from 1861 to 1867, and a member of companies John B. Chace, No. 4, and Water Witch, No. 6. He is a member of the Rhode Island Club, the Athletic Association, and is an Odd Fellow and Elk. In politics he is a conservative. He married, April 12, 1863, Miss Mary A. Dennaly; they have two children : Annie L. and Ella F. Morrow.

NEWELL, Timothy, physician and surgeon, was born March 29, 1820, in Sturbridge, Mass., the son of Stephen and Polly (May) Newell.   His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and held the rank of orderly sergeant and lieutenant; he was a pensioner for many years.   The first New England representative of the family, Isaac Newell, came to Boston from England when two years old.  His grandson, Isaac, was the second town clerk of Sturbridge, in 1739.   Dr. Newell's early education was limited to three months' attendance at the winter district school until sixteen years of age. At this time he entered the Manual Labor High School at Worcester, teaching winters, alternately. He fitted for college at the Wilbraham Academy and entered Brown University in the class of 1847. At the close of the sophomore year he left college and commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Sylvanus Clapp of Pawtucket, and then of Dr. W.  D. Buck of Manchester, N. H., for three years. He attended two full courses of lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and took a private course of three months there.   He graduated in 1850 and subsequently took a course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York.   He commenced the practice of medicine in Cranston, R. I. in 1851, and remained there a little over three years.   Since that time he has been located in Providence. He is a member of the Providence Medical Association, and the Rhode Island Medical Society, of which he was the Treasurer two years. He was formerly a member of the American Medical Association, the American Social Science Association, and American Public Health Association. He was largely instrumental in the formation of a flourishing medical library in Providence, and for nine years was chairman of the library committee, which acquired by gifts and purchase, during that period, over seven thousand volumes.

He is a member of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, the Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and the Public Park Association of Providence, of which he was an original member and largely instrumental in its promotion, Treasurer for six years, and Secretary and Treasurer for six years. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and remembers to have shaken hands with General Lafayette.  He is an honorary member of the Metropolitan Public Garden Association of London. During the civil war he was Surgeon of the First Rhode Island Cavalry, commissioned November 4, 1861, and had charge of sick and wounded prisoners of the Seven Days' battle quartered in Richmond. He was released August 20,1862. Among his published papers are, " What Changes does Physiology Demand in our Public School System?" read before the American Social Science Association at Saratoga in 1876 and published in the "Sanitarian." As chairman of the committee of school hygiene of the Rhode Island Medical Association, in 1875, he made a full report with a series of resolutions, which were copied into several sanitary journals and commented on. He read a paper on "Interior or Open Spaces in Large Cities," before the American Public Health Association. He is also the author of several pamphlets published annually for ten years by the Public Park Association, the last of which, No. 10, was influential in securing the loan for a new State House and fixing its location. He is also the author of the " Cyclopaedia of Domestic Medicine and Hygiene," Bradley & Woodruff, Boston, 1890. He married, in September 1867, Miss Annie Potter Bates, daughter of James W. Bates of South Kingston, and has one son : Claude Potter, born November 8, 1870.

NUGENT, Charles Franklin, banker, Providence, was born in Lynn Mass., November 15,1869, son of Thomas and Eliza (Newhall) Nugent. He received his education in the grammar schools of Lynn and in the high school of Manchester, New Hampshire. After completing his school education he entered the employ of the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester and thoroughly learned the process of the manufacture of cotton cloth.   He was appointed  superintendent of the   cotton  mills in Moosup, Conn., in 1888, and resigned on account of ill health in 1889.   He came to Providence the same year and engaged in the merchant-tailoring business, which was successfully conducted under the firm name of C. F. Nugent & Company. In 1893 the business of C. F. Nugent & Company was incorporated in a concern of which he was elected President.   He resigned and severed his interest with the firm in 1894.   He then engaged in the banking business, which he has since successfully conducted.    He   has not taken any interest in public life.   He is a member of the West Side Club, the Providence Athletic Association, the Order of United Workmen, the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows.   In politics he is a Republican.   He married, January 12, 1894, Miss Anny E. Tinker, of Lafayette, Ind.: they have no children.

O'REILLY, Francis L.,   Collector of the Port of Providence, was born in the county of Cavan, province of Ulster, Ireland, June 24, 1844, the son of   Philip and Catherine (McEntee) O'Reilly.   The O'Reilly's of Cavan were for more than a thousand years powerful princes and chieftains in that country, who after centuries of warfare against the invaders of their native land, were gradually reduced in their power and possessions by the confiscation of their lands by the kings and queens of England.    He was educated under private tutorship in his father's house until he was seventeen years of age, at which time he came to the United States and settled in Rhode Island.  After a brief residence he removed to the Southern States and spent a few years in the dramatic profession and as a public speaker and lecturer. He then studied law and was admitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1870.   Since that time he has been in the active practice of his profession in Woonsocket, R. I.   In 1882 he was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.   His activity and energy have found scope not only in a large law practice, but in military and civil organizations, in political work, and in the promotion and furtherance of many business enterprises of a public nature for the advancement of his city.   In 1879 he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Rhode Island Guards, of which regiment he has been an active member for several years.   He has been active in politics and influential in the councils of his party, and has been for the past fifteen years a member of the Democratic State Committee. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1888 and 1892, and was largely instrumental in having the vote of the state delegation cast in convention for President Cleveland in 1892.  He was a Representative in the General Assembly in 1879-80; Town Solicitor of Woonsocket in 1887-88: and a member of the commission created in 1890 to build a new State House in Providence. In 1894 he was appointed Collector of the Port of Providence by President Cleveland, which office he now holds. He is married and has a family of three children.

PERKINS. Jay, M. D., Providence, was born in Penobscot, Hancock county, Maine, October 15, 1864. son of William N. and Phebe A. (Perkins) Perkins.    His ancestors came from England and settled in York, Me., some time before the Revolution, and their descendants settled  along the Maine coast and in Massachusetts.   He attended the common schools until the age of seventeen, when he entered the Eastern State Normal School at Castine, and graduated as salutatorian in 1884.  He took the college preparatory course in the Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, attended a special course of one year at Colby University, and entered Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1891. Following graduation he attended a post-graduate laboratory course in bacteriology at Harvard. In November of the same year he became House Physician to the Rhode Island Hospital, was House Surgeon to the same institution the succeeding year, then served as House Physician to the Boston Lying-in Hospital until May 1894, following which he took a post-graduate laboratory course in pathology at Harvard. He came to Providence in July 1894, and was at once appointed Pathologist to the Rhode Island Hospital, which position he holds at the present time.  Dr. Perkins has especially devoted himself to research and practice in pathology and bacteriology, as the great advance made in medicine in modern times is based in these branches of medical science.  He was one of the first physicians in Rhode Island to do any systematic work in this direction, and in association with another physician, has established the Rhode Island Laboratory for Bacteriology and Pathology, in which, besides private scientific work in these branches for physicians from all over the state, is done the bacteriological work for the State Board of Health. Dr. Perkins is Secretary of the Providence Medical Association, and is a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts medical societies, the Rhode Island Medico-Legal Society, the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and the New England Cremation Society. He also holds the position of Demonstrator of Human Anatomy in Brown University. He is a member of the Congregational Club, Union Congregational Church and Young Men's Christian Association of Providence and the Harvard Club of Rhode Island.  He is a Republican in politics, and is unmarried.

PEIRCE, James Lewis, President of the Providence Board of Trade, and merchant, was born in East Greenwich, R. I., March 25, 1830, the son of James B. and Mary (Pinniger) Peirce. David Pinniger, his grandfather, was of French descent and learned his trade of blacksmith in the " Old Forge Mill " near East Greenwich with Gen. Nathaniel Greene.   The father of his grandmother was Capt.  Thomas Arnold, who lost a leg at the battle of Monmouth, and whose tombstone at East Greenwich records the battles in which he was engaged. His paternal grandfather, Daniel Peirce, was also a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and took part in the battle of Red Bank.   He received his early education in the public schools and at the East Greenwich Seminary.  He commenced his business life as a clerk for V. J.  Rates & Co., cotton manufacturers, whom he served from 1847 to 1848, and a clerk for David Sisson & Co., in the oil business, from 1848 to 1856. In 1856 he became a partner in the firm of French, Sisson & Co., which in 1858 became the firm of French & Peirce    In 1862 he established the firm of J. L. Peirce & Co., which has conducted a large and successful business up to the present time. He served in the Common Council of the city of Providence from 1876 to 1880.   In 1861-62 he was on the staff of Brig. Gen. T. J. Stead, Quartermaster of Rhode Island Militia, in charge of the outfit of the state troops in the service.   He has been Treasurer of Grace Episcopal Church, Providence, since 1859.  He was elected President of the Providence Board of Trade in 1893-94-95.   He married Miss Lucretia Foster, June 22, 1853, and they have one child, a daughter, living.

PEIRCE, William Copeland, President and Treasurer of the Providence Machine Company, was born in New Bedford, Mass., November 21, 1863, son of Charles M. and Amanda E. (Hill) Peirce. He is a grandson of the late well-known Thomas J. Hill. He received his early education in the public schools of New Bedford, and at Warner's Business College in Providence. In 1881 he was apprenticed to the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company for three years. In 1884 he entered the employ of the Providence Machine Company as a journeyman's machinist, and in 1885 was admitted to the firm, and became Superintendent of Construction. In 1891 he was elected Agent for the firm, and in 1894 became its President and Treasurer. He is President of the Elizabeth Mills, and a Director in the Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance Company and the City Savings Bank.   He is an active member of the Providence Board of Trade and the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association. In politics he has always been a Republican, but has not sought or accepted public office. He married, in September 1887, Miss Isabella Louise Baker, of Providence; they have four children: Thomas J., Emma I., Wm. C, Jr., and Ruth C. Peirce.

PHILLIPS, Eugene Francis, President of the American Electrical Works, Providence, was born in that city, November 10, 1843, son of the late David and Maria Nancy (Rhodes) Phillips of North Scituate, R. I, and a descendant of Christopher Phillips of Rainham, St. Martins, county of Norfolk, England, who landed at Salem, Mass., June 12, 1630, and settled in Watertown in that state.   He received his education in the public schools of Providence, making a break in his course at the high school, to enlist and serve in the Tenth Rhode island Volunteers in 1862, together with a large delegation of high school and college students, returning to complete his studies at the time the regiment was sworn out of service.   His occupation up to the time of the commencement of the manufacture of insulated wire in 1870, which may properly be called the business of his life, was of a varied nature, and such as usually falls to the lot of most young men.   In the year 1870 Mr. Phillips in a very limited way commenced the manufacture of insulated telegraph wire, in a barn in the rear of his residence, 57 Chestnut street, and each succeeding year added to the amount of the production of the preceding year.   In 1882 the business was incorporated under the name of the American Electrical Works, from which time he has filled the position of its President.   The business has grown until the company at present occupies the position of one of the leading manufactories of its kind in the world, and is doing an amount of business excelled by few individuals or corporations in the state. In politics Mr. Phillips is an out-and-out Republican.  He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers of New York, What Cheer Lodge F. & A. M., Swarts Lodge I. 0. 0. F., Providence Board of Trade, Slocum Post G. A. R., and of the Athletic, Popham, Union and Rhode Island Yacht clubs of Providence.   He married, October 30, 1867, Josephine  Johanna  Nichols, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (Baker) Nichols of Rehoboth, Mass.; of this union were born : Eugene Rowland, now a superintendent in the American Electrical Works, Edith Josephine, Frank Nichols, now a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and Grace, who died in March 1883.

POND, Daniel Bullard, mayor of Woonsocket in 1889-92, was born in that part of Smithfield, R. I., subsequently forming a part of the city of Woonsocket, October 21, 1830, son of Eli and Maria (Bullard) Pond. He is descended from old and honorable New England stock, two brothers Pond having come from Groton, England, with Governor Winthrop in 1630, and being on familiar and friendly terms with him. Daniel, the son of Robert Pond, one of the original brothers and from whom Daniel B. is descended, settled in Dedham, Mass., where he was a lieutenant of militia and a substantial citizen. The family were active and patriotic during the war of the Revolution, taking arms immediately after the battle of Lexington and serving until the freedom of the Colonists was established. Eli Pond, Daniel B.'s great-grandfather, was a drummer in a company of minute men, a sergeant in Capt. Josiah Fuller's Company, a lieutenant in Capt. Amos Ellis's Company, and lieutenant in a company serving in Rhode Island in 1788. Eli Pond, the father of Daniel B., settled in Woonsocket in 1827, where he established himself as a painter. He subsequently conducted a general store for paints, oils, and manufacturers' supplies, and also engaged successfully in cotton manufacture. He was also engaged for some time in farming in Mendon, Mass. Daniel received his early education in the public schools of Woonsocket and Mendon. He attended the school of Prof. James Bushee at the "Old Bank Village" and subsequently the Manual Labor School at Worcester, Mass. He afterward entered Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., to fit for college, where he remained two years, and then finished his preparatory course at a private school in Concord, Mass., where he made the acquaintance of Emerson, Hawthorne and Thoreau. He entered Brown University and graduated in 1857 with the degree of A. B.   He adopted the law as a profession and studied in the Law School at Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated with the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1858.   At this time he was engaged as attorney for the township of Ceredo, Va., where he remained for a short time, and then engaged in practice in partnership with P. P. Todd, in Blackstone, Mass.  In 1859 he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.  The following year he had charge of the law and collection office of the firm in Boston, and in 1860 had charge of the office in New York, which represented collection claims against Southerners for over a million dollars.   The war destroyed the business and in 1862 he returned to Woonsocket and began the manufacture of cotton warp in what was known as the Harris No. 1 Mill, afterward building a mill of his own where he remained in the business for several years.   He was the first cotton and woolen manufacturer in the state to shorten the hours of labor.    He was successful in business from the beginning and acquired a large property, but the failure of debtors in 1878 caused him to suspend and abandon all his means to creditors.  He then resumed his profession, which he has successfully followed since. He has taken a very active part in politics and in public affairs, and has been honored by many important offices in the city and state.   He was for many years a member of the Town Council of Woonsocket, a Representative in the General Assembly in 1864-66, and Senator in   1867-68-69, resigning in 1870.  While in the House he formulated the enactments for the division of Woonsocket from Cumberland, and was the first Senator from the new town. He was Town Solicitor in 1879-80, Chairman of the Consolidated School District Trustees and of the Board of Engineers of the Fire Corporation. He took an active part in the organization of the fire departments and served on the committee for the erection of the town asylum.   He delivered an address at the Garfield memorial service in Woonsocket in 1881, and was a member of the committee to locate the soldiers monument.   He was the candidate of the Democratic party for the General Treasurer in 1880.   He was elected first Councilman and President of the Board in 1887, but resigned to accept the office of High Sheriff of Providence county, to which he had been elected by the General Assembly in that year.   He was a member of the Board of Assessors of taxes in 1886, and Chairman in 1887-88.   He drew up the original charter for the city of Woonsocket and secured its introduction in the General Assembly in 1888 ; it was subsequently passed with slight changes.   He was elected the first Senator from the new city, and re-elected in 1890 and 1891.   He was elected Mayor in 1889, and re-elected for three successive terms.   He has also been a member of the Stone Bridge Commission, and a member of the Rhode Island Board of World's Fair Commissioners.   He was appointed in 1891 a member of the Board of Trustees for the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf and re-appointed in 1893 for the term of six years.   On the organization of the Board he was elected its President and still holds the office.   He is also Chairman of the Building Committee.   He introduced the original petition for the division of Providence county, and kept the matter before the General Assembly while he was a member.   He drew up and procured the amendment to the revised statutes providing for holding the highest courts at Woonsocket.   He advocated the establishment of the Soldiers' Home and made the first motion for an appropriation for that purpose.   As Mayor of Woonsocket he advocated most of the present public improvements in highways, bridges, water-works, a system of drainage, a system of public parks, the extension of the electric railway and the building of the railroad to Pascoag, the city encouraging this project by guaranteeing the interest on $100,000 of the construction bonds.  He was an earnest advocate for exempting new industries from taxation, and the new impetus given for the growth of the city may be traced to this action. In politics he was a Republican from the organization of the party until 1872, when he became a Democrat. He has been Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee and of the Democratic Town Committee until he declined further services. He is a member of the Alumni Association of Phillips Academy, of the Theta Delta Chi of Brown University, the Woonsocket Business Men's Association, the Woonsocket Agricultural Society, of which he has been Trustee and President, and for which he drew up and obtained the charter in the General Assembly. He is one of the charter members of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He married, November 29, 1860, Miss Isadore Verry, only daughte r of James Verry, a successfu l woolen manufacturer of Woonsocket, and of Dedham, Mass.: they have had five children : Verry Nolan and Clarence Eli, who died in infancy; and Isadore Maud, Nannie May and Grace Verena Pond.