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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, […]

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

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

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.

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

Grafton I. Kenyon is well known in Wakefield, Rhode Island, as a successful business man, secretary, and assistant treasurer of the O. P. Kenyon Company, Incorporated, and member of a family which has for more than two hundred years been associated with the development of Rhode Island. The Kenyon line includes the following generations: John Kenyon, born in 1605, who, in 1630, married Ann Smith; John Kenyon, born in 1636, married (first) Hannah Sheppard (second) Mary Rigby; John Kenyon, born in 1657, died in 1732, having married Sarah Gray, probably of Mayflower ancestry; Jonathan Kenyon, born in 1695, married Mary

B. Frank Robinson is a member of an old Rhode Island family, dating back to Revolutionary times. With the exception of a few years spent during his youth in New York City and in Providence, where he was engaged in laying the foundation for his knowledge of business, he has been a lifelong resident of his native town, Wakefield. As successor of his father as the head of one of the leading grocery establishments in Wakefield, established by Mr. Robinson’s grandfather more than a century ago, and as president of the most substantial financial institution of Wakefield, which for almost

Early recognition of the legal abilities of Edward Martin Burke followed his establishment in practice in Westerly in 1895, he having been elected in 1898 the first judge of the Probate Court in this place, an office he has filled continuously ever since. Judge Burke is a citizen of high standing, a lawyer of finish and a jurist of impartial decisions. His popularity in legal, social and fraternal circles is a matter of common knowledge and a host of loyal friends attest to an attractive character and friendly nature. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, November 11, 1869, a son