Sentence:  Seated on the platform were Amos C. Barstow , ex-mayor of <WSD>Providence</WSD> and a wealthy Republican stove manufacturer ; Thomas Davis , an uncompromising Garrisonian ; the Reverend Augustus Woodbury , a Unitarian minister ; the Reverend George T. Day , a Free-Will Baptist ; Daniel w. Vaughan , and William H. H. Clements . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University