William A.H Grant (may 1, 1899 – may 1, 1901)
Description:
Providence, Rhode IslandDates of Service: May 1899-1901
Date of Birth: August 8, 1843
Birth Place: Providence, Rhode Island
Education: Providence Public Schools, he left High School in response to the call of President Lincoln for volunteers in the Civil War.
Military Service:
Tenth Regiment RI Volunteers, Captain Hopkins B. Cady; was promoted to the rank of corporal and discharged on expiration of his term of enlistment, September 1, 1862.
Served in the "Home Guards" during the July riots of 1864.
Civil War, Ca Major on staff of department commander RI GAR, Colonel on staff of Commander-In-Chief GAR
Occupation:
In 1866 he removed to Southbridge, Mass, where his father, Henry T. Grant, had purchased a factory village, and lived fourteen years as cotton manufacturer.
Returned to Providence in 1879, and formed a co-partnership with his brother - Henry T. Grant Jr. - in the manufacture of ladies' dress goods in Olneyville, in which they established the first complete plant for incandescent lighting in the United States if not the world, and from this plant valuable information as to the life of incandescent lamp was first given to the world.
He continued in the manufacturing business there until 1887, when he purchased the business of Perrin & Irons (25 to 29 Manton Avenue).
Affiliations:
He has served as major on the staff of Benjamin H. Childs, Department Commander
G.A.R. of Rhode Island, and as colonel on the staff of Commander-in-Chief G.A.R, Gen J.P.S. Govin
Was one of the charter members of Malcolm Amemdon Post, 167, G.A.R. Department of Massachusetts, organized about 1867, and was commander of the post for one and a half years.
Served as President of the Olneyville Business Men's Association for the year 1889, and then served as treasurer.
Elected president of the Olneyville Free Public Library in 1899.
Added to timeline:
Date:
may 1, 1899
may 1, 1901
~ 2 years
