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Title: The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
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Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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met with, and which renders hisgoing from us a public loss felt by all. The Inland Printer magazine, the leading publica-tion of its class in the world, published a portrait andbiographical sketch of J. Ernest Hammond, pages 435-436, June. 1904 issue, under the title A Chronicle ofProgress, which proves the estimation of his worthfrom the viewpoint of the late Henry O. Shepard,owner and publisher, also printer laureate of the UnitedStates. On January 18, 1888, Mr. Hammond married ClaraW. Boyd, a Londonderry, N. H., school teacher, whohas been a co-worker when health permitted. ARLON MANN WHIPPLE—Since 1659 the nameWhipple has been identified with Rhode Island life andaffairs. Descendants of the founder, John Whipple,have figured prominently in official life in Rhode Islandfor two centuries. Of his sons, John Whipple. Jr., wasparticularly active in public affairs in Providence; hewas town treasurer, town clerk, deputy to the GeneralAssembly, member of the town council and assistant.
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^^.^J.^^4 h/://A. BIOGRAPHICAL 299 ;auel Eleazer, and Joseph Whipple all representedrv-idence in the Colonial Assembly. All of the sons,f he settler married, and with the exception of David,•eled in Providence. Branches were established in;u,equent generations in many of the towns of Prov-d ce county. The Cumberland Whipples form one ofh oldest and most distinguished branches of the;aiily. Arlon Mann Whipple, for many years prior■oiis death in IQIO, one of the foremost farmers andSt kraisers of Providence county, was a native of Cum-Kand. He was descended in the eighth generationEm John Whipple, the founder. I) Tohn Whipple, immigrant ancestor and progen-it., is first of record in Dorchester, Mass.. in 1632.(11637 he received a grant of land there. In 1639 heiv; married, and he and his wife united with thedrch at Dorchester in 1641. In 1658 he disposed ofh homestead and lands to James Minot, and removedtcProvidence, where on July 27, 1659, he was receiveda:i purchaser. In the divi

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