History of Woonsocket, (Providence County) Rhode Island United States of America

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William C. Lovering - A Biography

William C. Lovering, representative, was born in Woonsocket, R.I., where his parents were temporarily residing, in 1835; son of Willard (1801-67) and Susan (Loughead) Lovering of Taunton, Mass., and grandson of William and Mehitable (Clafflin) Lovering of Holliston, Mass. He was educated at Taunton, the Cambridge high school and the Hopkins classical school, and engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods with his father and brothers Charles L. and Henry M. in Taunton, Mass. On the retirement of his father in 1864 he became president and manager of the Whittenton Mills which in 1880, was incorporated as the Whittenton Manufacturing Co. of Taunton. He was also interested in several other manufacturing industries. He was a volunteer in the U.S. engineer corps at Fort Monroe during the civil war, but left the service on account of ill health. He was state senator, 1874-75; a delegate to the Republican national convention in Chicago, June 2, 1880; and was a Republican representative from the twelfth district of Massachusetts in the 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1897-1905.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor