The Makers of Modern Rhode Island

by Conley, Patrick T.

• ISBN13: 9781609491642
• ISBN10: 1609491645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-24
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Picking up where Rhode Island’s Founders left off Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island’s preeminent historian and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the Ocean State’s history from 1790 to 1860. Learn how Samuel Slater, the so-called Father of the Factor System, pioneered the making of modern Rhode Island, how Elizabeth Buffum Chace founded the Rhode Island Women’s Suffrage Association and what political circumstances led Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr to the Dorr War in 1842. This volume includes colorful biographical sketches of fifty-six influential Rhode Islanders who helped shape the state’s urban and industrial development into the modern Rhode Island of today.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Acknowledgements	p. 15
The Entrepreneurs
Samuel Slater	p. 17
David Wilkinson	p. 21
Edward Carrington	p. 25
Nehemiah Dodge	p. 28
Jabez and John Gorham	p. 30
Joseph R. Brown and Lucien Sharpe	p. 33
William Gorham Angell	p. 37
George H. Corliss	p. 38
Zachariah Allen	p. 42
Rowland Gibson Hazard	p. 45
The Philanthropists
Nicholas Brown II	p. 48
Ebenezer Knight Dexter	p. 51
Edward Harris	p. 54
John Carter Brown	p. 57
The Multifaceted Politicians
U.S. Senator, Chief Justice and Speaker James Burrill Jr.	p. 60
U.S. Congressman and Chief Justice Tristam Burges	p. 62
U.S. Senator, Governor and Speaker William Sprague III	p. 64
U.S. Senator and Governor Philip Allen	p. 67
U.S. Congressman and Justice Elisha Reynolds Potter Jr.	p. 70
Governor Elisha Dyer II	p. 74
The Legalists
Judge David Howell	p. 77
John Whipple	p. 81
Joseph K. Angell	p. 84
Chief Justice William Read Staples	p. 86
Chief Justice and Speaker Samuel Ames	p. 88
Justice Walter Snow Burges	p. 91
The Educators
John Howland	p. 94
Henry Barnard	p. 97
The Clergy
Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold	p. 101
Reverend Francis Wayland	p. 104
Reverend James Fitton	p. 106
Mother Mary Frances Xavier Warde	p. 109
The Physicians
Dr. Solomon Drowne	p. 113
Dr. Usher Parsons	p. 115
Dr. Isaac Ray	p. 118
The Architects and Artists
John Holden Greene	p. 122
Russell Warren	p. 126
James C. Bucklin	p. 129
Thomas Alexander Tefft	p. 131
James Sullivan Lincoln	p. 134
The Literati
Catharine R. (Arnold) Williams	p. 136
Frances Harriet (Whipple) Green McDougall	p. 139
Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman	p. 142
Wilkins Updike	p. 145
Secretary of State John Russell Bartlett	p. 149
The Reformers
Seth Luther	p. 154
Governor Thomas Wilson Dott	p. 159
Harriet Ware	p. 166
Arnold Buffum and Elizabeth Buffum Chace	p. 168
George T. Downing	p. 171
Thomas Robinason Hazard	p. 174
Congressman Thomas Davis and Paulina (Kellogg) Wright Davis	p. 177
Rhode Islanders and the Nation	p. 183
George Bancroft
Reverend William Ellery Channing
Dr. Walter Channing
Prudence Crandall
John DeWolf
Charles Bird King
Captain Albert Martin
Clement Clarke Moore
Sam Patch
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
U.S. Minister and Congressman Jonathan Russell
Gilbert Stuart
Judah Touro
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
Henry Wheaton
About the Author	p. 191
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