Biography of E. Charles Francis
Chairman of the board of managers of the Industrial Trust Company at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, E. Charles Francis has occupied a distinguished place in this city’s affairs for many years. Aside from his personal interests, he has given his services freely in public life. Colonel Francis was born at Utica, New York, on September 6, 1851, a son of Eben and Mary (Hunnewell) Francis, the father a minister in the Universalist Church, and chaplain of the 127th New York Volunteers during the period of the Civil War. As usual in a minister’s family, Colonel Francis’ boyhood years were passed in […]