Newport

After a successful business career in the provision trade, covering a number of years, Mr. Peckham identified himself with investment banking. Today he is one of the best-known investment bankers in his native city, Newport, enjoying, to an unusual degree the confidence of his numerous customers. Other phases of the community’s life, too, hold his interest and for many years he has been prominently active in fraternal and social organizations, as well as in civic affairs. Thus he represents a high type of useful, vigorous, public-spirited citizen. Harold A. Peckham was born in Newport, September 17, 1873, a son of …

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From his fifteenth year George W. Bacheller, of Newport, has been actively associated with financial and civic affairs and has become well known throughout Rhode Island’s banking circles. His other interests have been wide and contributive to the progress of numerous organizations with which he has become connected. He has held public office and administered its duties with credit to himself and to the full satisfaction of the electorate. In fraternal circles he has also been actively associated and is a popular and influential member of various societies and orders, as well as of social clubs and commercial organizations. Altogether, …

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A native of Massachusetts, but a resident of Newport since his childhood, Mr. Sullivan has been engaged in the successful practice of law in this city for almost a quarter of a century. His professional standing is of the highest and, to an unusual degree, he enjoys the confidence of the community in general, a fact evidenced by his long continuous service as city solicitor, to which office he has been regularly reelected since the expiration of his first term dating back to 1910. Jeremiah A. Sullivan was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, August 3, 1881, a son of the …

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A member of one of the oldest and most prominent Newport families, Mr. Sherman is a native and lifelong resident of this city. Here he commenced his career as a banker, immediately following the completion of his college education and here he began his publishing career, in 1918, as the owner of the “Newport Daily News.” He has been for many years one of the outstanding figures in financial, business, public, and social affairs. In all of these phases of the community’s life he has taken a prominent and effective part. Every movement, tending to advance civic progress and to …

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A resident of Newport since his early youth, Mr. Fullerton became connected with the city government almost three decades ago. Since 1907 he has served continuously as city clerk of Newport, the length of his service indicating how ably and efficiently he has filled this responsible position and to how great an extent he enjoys the liking and confidence of his fellow-townsmen. Mr. Fullerton undoubtedly is one of the most popular public officials in Newport, and this popularity also extends to the several fraternal and other organizations in which he maintains membership. Francis Neil Fullerton was born at Hartsport, Nova …

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An educator of long experience and distinguished record, Herbert Warren Lull is, since September 1, 1931, superintendent emeritus of schools of Newport, Rhode Island. He was born at Boston, Massachusetts, on November 26, 1852, a son of Lewis M. and Jeanette Andrews (Tewksbury) Lull. His father was a railroad official and both parents were members of old American families. Herbert Warren Lull was educated in New England schools and later entered Harvard College, from which he was graduated in 1874. He began his active career in his chosen occupation in 1874 as principal of the Lowell Street School at Manchester, …

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It is more than two and a half centuries since the immigrant ancestor of the Hazard family, an outline of whose genealogy follows, helped to found the Colony of Rhode Island. From that time to the present his descendants have taken a usefully active and prominent part in every phase of its economic, political, professional and social life, and their names are to be found upon nearly every page of the State’s recorded history. Rowland Hazard is a worthy scion of this virile race. Not content to run in the economic groove worn by forebears who, in their day, were …

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From 1923 to the present writing (1930) the Rev. Joseph Boehr has been the able and devoted pastor of the Church of the Holy Ghost at North Tiverton, Rhode Island. Holy Ghost parish was formerly a mission of St. Anthony’s Church of Portsmouth, which, in turn, was a mission of St. Joseph’s Church of Newport. The original St Joseph’s parish in Newport has been called the “Cradle of Newport’s Catholicity,” for on August 20, 1837, Bishop Fenwick, of Boston, dedicated the first Catholic church in Newport and placed it under the patronage of St. Joseph. Ten years later plans were …

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Nearly forty years ago the Mill Street Laundry in Newport was established by Henry J. Jones, who conducted it successfully until his death in 1929, when it became the sole property of his son, Nathan H. Jones. From an enterprise employing a driver and a wagon and sending its work to Boston to be done, it has grown to be a modem plant, with full machinery, automobile delivery, uniformed chauffeurs and employing fifty persons. This has been largely due to the progressive ability of the present owner, who is one of the most enterprising young business men of Newport. He …

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