Washington

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 … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

A native and lifelong resident of Wakefield, Mr. Shannon for many years has been one of its leading and most highly respected business men. After acquiring his initial business experience by association for almost fifteen years in the retail shoe business with his father, he established himself in the insurance business, in which he has since continued with marked success. He has the distinction of being the only man in Wakefield who devotes all of his activities to the insurance business. Naturally his standing in the community, both as a business man and as a citizen, is of the highest, … Read more

Having become associated with his late father, Duncan Gillies, and his older brother, Duncan W. Gillies, in the newspaper publishing and job printing business, immediately following the completion of his education, Roderick Gillies has continued to be successfully active in these fields and, since 1925, has been the owner and manager of this business, which was founded by his father. As publisher of the “Narragansett Times,” one of the leading weekly newspapers of Rhode Island, Mr. Gillies has been an important figure in the civic life of his native town, Wakefield, Washington County, and is regarded as one of its … Read more

In the life of Rhode Island, one of those men who for years has taken a leading part in public affairs is Thomas Pierrepont Hazard, who is associated with a number of the foremost business organizations of this State. The Hazard home is in Peace Dale, the town of his birth and in which he is widely known today. Mr. Hazard was born in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, on October 26, 1892, son of Rowland Gibson and Mary Pierrepont (Bushnell) Hazard, and is the eleventh generation of this family in Rhode Island. The father was engaged for many years as … Read more

After careful preparation in the public schools of his native State, Connecticut, and at the Rhode Island State College, Mr. Wilcox, in 1913, entered the teaching profession. For the first five years he was connected with schools in Connecticut, but since 1919 he has been identified with the public schools system of South Kingstown, first as principal of the high school and, during the last few years, as superintendent of schools. To an unusual degree he enjoys the respect and confidence alike of students, teachers and parents, his popularity being the natural result of his ability and of his personality. … Read more

Successfully engaged in the insurance and real estate business in Wakefield for some thirty-five years, Mr. Brown is regarded one of that town’s outstanding and representative business men and citizens. His exceptional business ability has brought him not only well-deserved personal success, but has also greatly benefited one of the leading local financial institutions, with which he has been identified for many years in various capacities. Civic activities, too, have received a share of his time and attention, and he has also been prominently active for many years in several fraternal organizations, in which he has held high office. In … Read more