Providence County Biographies
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NEWELL, Timothy, physician and surgeon, was born March 29 1820, in Sturbridge, Mass., the son of Stephen and Polly (May) Newell. His father was a solider in the Revolutionary war, and held the rank of orderly sergeant and lieutenant; he was a pensioner for many years. The first New England representive of the family, Isaac Newell Isaac Newell, came to Boston from England when two years old. His grandson, Isaac, was the second town clerk of Sturbridge, in 1739. Dr. Newell's early educationwas limited to three months' attendance at the winter district school until sixteen years of age. At this time he entered the Manual Labor High School at Worcester, teaching winters, alternately. He fitted for college at the Wilbraham Academy and enter Brown University in the class of 1847. At the close of the sophomore year he left college and commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Sylvanus Clapp of Pawtucket, and then Dr. W.D. Buck of Manchester, N.H. for 3 years. He attended two full courses of lectures at Woodstock, Vt., and took private course of three months there. He graduated in 1850 and subsequently took a course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. He commenced the practice of medicine in Cranston R.I. in 1851, and remained there a little over three years. Since that time he has been located in Providence. He is a member of the Providence Medical Asscioation, and the Rhode Island Medical Society, which he was the Treasurer two years. He was formerly a member of the American Medical Association, and American Social Science Association, and American Public Heatlth Association. He was largely instrumental in the formation of a flourshing medical library in Providence, and for nine years was chairman of the library committee, which acquired by gifts and purchase, during that period, over seven thousand volumes. He is a member of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragment of Domestic Industry, the Rhode Island Horticultural Society, and the Public Parks Association of Providence, of which he was original member and largely instrumental in the promotion, Treasurer for six years, and Secretary and Treasurer for six years. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and remembers to have shaken hands with General Lafayette. He is a honorary member of the Metropolitan Public Garden Association of London. During the civil war he is Surgeon of the First Rhode Island Cavalry, commisoned November 4 1861, and had charge of sick and wounded prisoners of the Seven Days' battle quartered in Richmond. he was released August 20 1862. Among his published papers are "What Changes does Physiology Demand in our Public School System?" read before the American Social Science Association at Saratoga in 1876 and published in the Saniarian" As chairman of the committee of school hygiene of Rhode Island Medical Association, in 1875, he made full report with series of resolutions, which were copied into several sanitary journals and commented on. He read a paper on "Interior or Open Spaces in Large Cities," before the American Public Health Association. He is also the author of several pamphlets published annually for ten years by the Public Park Assciation the last of which No. 10, was unfluential in securing the loan for a new State House and fixing its location. He is also the author of the "Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Hygeiene," Bradley & Woodruff Boston, 1890. He married in Septemver 1867 to Miss Annie Potter Bates daughter of James W. Bates of South Kingston, and has one son Claude Potter, born November 8 1870.
Source: Rhode Island Men of Progress - Submitted by Erica Beatty
NUGENT, Charles Franklin, banker, providence, was born in Lynn Mass., November 15 1869 son of Thomas and Eliza (Newhall) Nugent. He recieved his education in the grammer schools of Lynn and in the high school of Manchester, New Hampshire. After completing his school education he entered the employ of the Amoskeag Mills in Manchester and throughly learned the process of the manufacture of cotton cloth. He was appointed superintendent of the cotton mills in Moosup, Conn., in 1888 and resigned on account of ill-health in 1889. He came to Providence the same year and engaged in teh merchant-tailoring business, which was successfully conducted under the firm name of C.F. Nugent & Company. In 1893 the business of C.F. Nugent & Company was incorprated in a concern of which he was elected president. he resigned and severed his interest with the firm in 1894. He then engaged in banking business which he has since successfully conducted. he has not taken any interest in public life. He is a memver of the West Side Club, the Providence Athletic Association, the Order of United Workmen, the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows. In politics he is Republican. He married January 12 1894, Miss Anny E. Tinker of Lafayette, Ind., they had no children.Source: Rhode Island Men of Progress - Submitted by Erica Beatty
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