Isaac C. Bates Scrapbook Bates (Isaac Comstock) Scrapbook 1877-1887 bulk 1877-1883

Bates, Isaac C., 1843-1913

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Isaac Comstock Bates was born July 27, 1843 in Blackstone, MA to Laban and Lydia (Comstock) Bates. He arrived in Providence in 1868 where he became partners with his maternal uncle Andrew Comstock, Esq. in a pork-packing business at 101 (later 199) Canal Street. In 1880 he and his cousin Louis H. Comstock bought out the business and re-opened it as Comstock and Company. Mr. Bates accumulated great wealth through this business and was active in it until his death January...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Rhode Island School of Design., Museum of Art

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Eliza G. Radeke, Museum Committee Chair (1893-1931) and President (1913-1931), led the development of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art assisted by L. Earle Rowe, RISD Director (1912-1929) and Museum Director (1929-1937). Working together and with the generosity and assistance of her family and friends including Edward Perry Warren, they established the foundation of the Museum’s collection of works of art. Her collection strengths were Japanese and Classi...

Keppel, Frederick, 1845-1912

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