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Excerpt from The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island Although Rhode Island is a small state territorially, she, nevertheless, has a record as brilliant and interesting as any state in the Union, and as her history extends over a period of nearly two and a half centuries, the greater part of this volume is necessarily devoted to sketches of the lives of men of past generations. The biographies have been arranged chronologically, except so far as it became necessary to interrupt this order for the purpose of properly distributing the steel-plate portraits with which the work is embellished, and inserting sketches received too late for publication in their proper place. The fact that the biographies of many prominent men who are now upon the stage of action are not to be found in this Cyclopedia, and that steel-plate portraits do not aecom pany the sketches of several well-known men represented herein, may occasion some comment; but it is due to the publishers to state that they have used their best endeavors to supply this omission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.