there seems a discrepancy regarding the first date mentioned, and his date of death, but the dates are reproduced as written in the book... from "Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762 - 1907" prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union #33 as a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of its institution printed in 1907 "The Journeymen" (part 6) pp. III - IV. "EDWARD T. ANGELL - This is his own story as told to a Journal reporter Sept. 3, 1906, the 40th anniversary of his beginning work on the paper: 'The 26th of next March I will be 67, and I have lived all the time in this State. I went to school in this city and in the country - to the Scituate Seminary, a boarding school. 'When I was 18 I started in to learn the printing trade, and began at the Journal job office on Washington row. After serving my time I went to Newport and then came back to this city and worked on the Post. Next I tried the New England Diadem, a weekly temperance paper. I set type in B.N. Sherman's office in Pawtucket, on the Morning Mirror in this city, the Kent County Atlas and the Providence Tribune. 'About the time I first began the trade, I joined the fire department, almost as soon as it was started. I used to run with the boys and stayed with them, until pay was received for services, when I left, as that was the time when I came on the Journal and I couldn't attend to it. 'The first piece of work the foreman at the Journal gave me was an article from the London Times. It was about the great race for the America's cup. (This was in 1852, when he subbed for a regular.) It was nearly a column in length and I got it all. In those days the man at the case set the entire article, big or little, just as it happened to run. If he needed assistance, when some of the other men were through with their work they would set some of the last end of the copy for him.' Sept. 3, 1896, the employee in the Journal composing room presented Ned with a large and handsomely decorated meeschaum pipe, with a yard or more of plug tobacco. Everybody gathered about the old man as he curiously looked around on the circle of his fellow workers. This speech was read by one of the men: 'In view of the fact that you have been employed on the Journal for a period of two score years, and to commemorate the occasion, your fellow employes [sic] have delegated me to present to you on their behalf this beautiful meerschaum pipe, with the hope that the only smoking you do will be done in this world. We also hope that you will be very careful of it, as the best medical authorities, including Drs. Rose and Eddy, say that 'hitting the pipe' is very injurious to the health. In conclusion, we with you many years of happiness.' Ned was initiated into Providence Union Dec. 9, 1891. He died June 26, 1902, in his 73d year. Interment was at the North Burial Ground." continued in part 7.