Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society volume 22
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society volume 22
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He was also elected a Presidential Elector in 1864, and with his colleagues voted for the reelection of Mr. Lincoln. Of the School Com- mittee of Warwick, he was a member for fifteen years and its Secretary a part of the time, the late Hon. John Brown Francis being its chairman. He was deeply interested in the cause of popular education as evinced by his long service and successful efforts in its behalf. Besides the public offices enumerated above, there were many others bestowed upon him by hi...s friends and fellow-townsmen, such as director in financial institutions, member of the town's committee on finance, the latter especially during the trying times of the Civil War, moderator of town meetings, chairman of conventions acting in the transaction of public and political affairs. In all these his name was ever known as a synonym of 84 RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. honor, uprightness and fidelity. It was through his sagacity, strict sense of justice and inflexible determination that an act was passed by the General Assembly while he was a member of one of its committees on finance, laying a tax upon the deposits and surplus in Savings Institutions which had hitherto been ex- emj^t, and a handsome addition was made to the revenue of the State, without doing injustice to the depositors in those insti- tutions.
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