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    1. [RI] Printers and Printing in Providence (part 118)
    2. Beth Hurd
    3. 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 118) p. LIII. "Printers Known to Have Worked Here: WILLIAM G. LARNED - Publisher of Morning Courier, began June 6, 1836; sold to Journal Jan. 29, 1841. ORLANDO LE BARRON - Before 1874. HENRY LEIS - 1855 worked at 24 Westminster street; 1857 at Journal office; member of Providence Union before 1865. WILLIAM A. LEONARD - 1857 charter member; worked at 101 Westminster street; member in 1865. CHARLES W. LITTELL - Member Providence Union in 1877; now in business at 333 Westminster street. WILLIAM K. LOGEE - Name in 1870 constitution; honorary member Providence union in 1877. VICTOR LOOMIS - 1873 and at other times; one of the old-time swifts. CHARLES LOOP - Card rejected by Providence Union Jan. 14, 1871. CLEM LUCAS - Worked at R. I. Printing Co. Reported in Raleigh, N. C., in April (1907) Typographical Journal. KENNETH MacCASKELL - Died Boston, Mass., May 30, 1899; member of Cambridge Typographical Union at time of death; had worked on most of the Boston newspapers; his name appears on the list (1857-1865) of members of Providence Union taken from the 1865 constitution. JOHN A. MACDONALD - Began to learn printing in the office of the St. Catherines (Ontario) Post in April, 1861; in 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army and fought in the ranks of Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac, until the end of the war; after the war he went back to the 'case,' joining Buffalo Typographical Union in 1866; he worked on the Providence Journal in 1873 and again in 1878; previous to 1880 he worked in nearly every city of prominence in the Western, Middle and Eastern States; in 1880 he purchased a newspaper at Ampion, Ontario, and published it for 15 years; he is now in the insurance business in Toronto, Canada. WILLIAM J. MACDONALD - Born Clinton, Mass., where he also learned the trade of printer; came to Providence in November, 1903, and worked on the Telegram." continued in part 119.

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