The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-19
WAITING FOR CLIENTS.
The Successful Candidates in the
Law Examination.
THERE WERE EIGHT IN ALL.
r a ~ c.ciies q Ia yctn; Harri ,rs
who will N,w iiang ut IA sir shingles
The IA ority OF Them are Graduates
Thrown unise ST..

mere were ciBnt Hdppy young men IN
the city to-day. They were the eight who
had successfully passed the examination
for admission TO the Rhode Island bar.
The notifications of their success were
sent out 10y the committee yesterday and
aud received to-day, when there was gen
eral handshaking and exchange of con
gratulations. The eight new barristers
will De sworn in at $50 o'clock tomorrow
morning by the full bench of the Supreme
Court. The successful young men were
Frank II. Wilders, Frederick T. Carpen-
ter, Augustus O. Bourn, Jr., John r.
Fox, ID. III. Sheehan, Percy ID. Smith,
William B. Greeenough and William g.
Rich.
Frank Harlow Wilds is native of this
city and is ~ years old. He is a self-edu-
Gated man in every sense of the word
having succeeded in his education by work
outside from the time he entered the Point
Street Grammar School. lie graduated
from this school in 81 aud took the three
years course in the Providence High
School from which he graduated in the
class of S4. The following September he
entered Brown University and graduated
from that institution in the class OF 80
Since then he has studied law in the Office
of Hon. David s Baker, Jr He will
pfdctlcc his DfOlesslOu III ilic CITY NntTt nc
was born and has always lived.
Frederick Everett Carpenter is a native
of Cumberland. He is graduate of the
East Providence grammar -schnnl-class of
'sl He graduated from the Providence
High Scool in 80 and from Brown Univer-
sity in the class of 80. He prepared for
the examination in law in the office of
Walter Il. Angel.
Augustus Osborne, Jr. il son OF Ex-
Gov Bourne of this State and was born
in Bristol He was in the class Of $50 afr
Brown University, and after two years of
study there left college to prepare himself
for his chosen profession lie studied a
year at the Harvard Law School and later
studied at the Columbian Law School at
Washington, ID. q.
He then went West and completed his
law studies in the Office of Wells, Macon
* Furman, made famous by the DR.
Graves trial, at Denver. lie was then ad-
misted to the Colorado bar, where he
practised two years, ana returned TO this
city few weeks ago, TO be in readiness
for the examination which would make
him lawyer under the Rhode Island
statutes.
John Patrick Fox, another of the sue
cessful candidates, was "A member OF the
class of 'S6 in the Mount Pleasant Aca-
DENY. From there he went to the Boston
University Law School. and since then has
Feeley and G. j. a \. +. West. He has
taken an active part in politics in the
Tenth ward for the past few years and has
been the principal of the Olneyville even
ing school for two terms
Dennis Harvey Sheahan was born in
this city May 80, 1o6l. lie graduated from
the Providence High School in 50 and
from Brown University in the class of SO.
lie is an eX-councilman of the Third
Ward aud has been reading and recording
clerk OF tue House of Representatives for
two years. He studied law in the Office of
Walter Il. Vincent and at the Summer
School of Law of the University of Vir-
ginia. He was principal of the Wanskuck
evening school for several years. and was
formerly prominent in politics in the
Third Ward.
Percy Dinsmore Smith Of Gloucester
studied two years mt Williams College aud
completed his course at Brown University,
graduating in the class OF -. lie has oc-
cupied numerous important offices in the
power of his townspeope TO confer on
him. He has been superintendent of the
public schools OF Gloucester, commissioner
Of the Pascoag and Woonsocket railroad,
n member OF the State Board of Educa-
tion, assistant clerk of Secretary OF State
McGuinness and "a member OF the House
of Representatives for two years. He is
nephew of the Hon Ziba o. Slocum. He
studied law with Van Slyck * Van Slyck
and also at the Sumner School of Law of
the University of Virginia.
William IL. Greenough was in the class
of ~ in the Providence High School. lie
studied law in the University Of South
Carolina Law School aud with Van Slyck
* Van Slyck in this city. lie is a son of
the former principal of the State Normal
School.
William c. Rich is native of Woon-
socket and studied law with Edwin Al
drich in that city.