Washington

No account of Rhode Island’s growth and development wOuld be complete without a record of the life and work of Thomas Lyman Arnold, for many years one of the leading business men of this State, as well as of New York City. Successfully guiding the affairs of Arnold and Aborn, a firm of coffee and tea dealers, he proved himself a talented commercial leader; and for his achievements in this field, as well as for his kindly and pleasing qualities of character and personality, he w’on hosts of friends. A man of strong public spirit and lofty ideals of citizenship, […]

The name Foster or its kindred in various spellings began as early as any surname and in the Middle Ages was of great significance, since it was derived from the office of forester, which under the feudal system was a position of great power and influence. The foresters of Flanders were created by Charlemagne to rule the savage wilderness which in his time composed the Western boundary of the Frankish Empire. They became powerful hereditary chieftains and later, as margraves and dukes of Flanders, played a notable part in the history of Western Europe from the ninth to the twelfth

Descended from one of the most prominent Rhode Island families which has been represented in this State for more than two hundred years, John Edward Babcock, of Wakefield, was a worthy scion of a race of pioneers and constructive industrialists and contributed in great measure to the progress of the community. He was respected and honored by all and lived a life of self-effacement and devotion to the people and their best interests. For almost half a century he worked at his task, seeking no reward save the appreciation that he was given, yet he was cut short in life

Directly descended from Richard Warren, a member of the company that came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the “Mayflower,” and also from fourteen governors and deputy governors of Rhode Island, of the sixth generation from Deputy Governor William Robinson, no man in Rhode Island has a heritage of prouder lineage than Samuel R. Robinson, of Wakefield, in the town of South Kingstown. For many years he has been engaged in the grocery business, conducting the enterprise established by his grandfather, the Hon. Sylvester Robinson, in 1821. Respected by virtue of his honorable character and his high principles of business conduct, as

Member of an old and distinguished Rhode Island family, which has been prominent in the life of this State in every generation, Howard V. Allen inherits many of the characteristic traits of his ancestors, and through his career has shed new luster on an ancient name. As banker and business executive at East Greenwich, he is very well known in the commercial life of the State. Mr. Allen is a direct descendant of William Allen, founder of the family in America, from whom the line runs through John, Thomas, Thomas (2), Judge John Allen, and Thomas Gould Allen, great-grandfather of

A native and lifelong resident of Washington County, Mr. Main has been for many years the owner of one of the leading jewelry stores and watch repair establishments in Wakefield. He is also successfully engaged in the radio business and in both of these lines he enjoys a very large trade, his success being the result of his energy, his well known integrity, and his strict adherence to the highest business principles. He enjoys a very large acquaintance in the community, where he is generally regarded as one of the most popular, substantial, and useful citizens. William I. Main was

Having established himself in the grocery and meat business at Wakefield in his youth, Mr. Eldred has continued in this business ever since and today is one of the best known and most successful retail merchants of Wakefield. A man of pleasing personality, strict integrity and proven public spirit, he is very popular in the community and at different times has been honored by his fellow-citizens by election to important public offices. He is a member of several fraternal organizations, takes an active part in religious work and in every respect represents the best type of useful and upright citizen.

Having entered the textile business in his native Scotland as a youth of some fifteen years, Mr. Battye has continued to be identified with the textile industry ever since. A resident of the United States since his seventeenth year, he has been connected with various important textile companies in New England for almost half a century. He has acquired an exceptionally thorough knowledge of all branches of the textile business, a fact which has enabled him to fill the various positions of responsibility which he has held from time to time with marked success. As general manager of one of

One of those citizens of Rhode Island who has for years taken a prominent part in the affairs of his State, Leonard Stanley Holley is vice-president of the Holley Ice and Transportation Company of South Kingstown. In this community, where he was born and has lived practically all his life, Mr. Holley has performed much useful work, and today he is highly esteemed and respected in the business life of his town and this Commonwealth. He was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, on October 16, 1894, son of George A. and Lillian E. (Tucker) Holley. His father, also a