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Laura Fenner is my 8th Cousin, one time removed. She attended Fall River public schools and graduated from B.M.C. Durfee High. Her adolescent years were marred somewhat by her father's stroke and resulting paralysisi ( in 1903 ) untl his death ( in 1907. the Chadwicks helped out whenever they could, taking Laura with them on trips, including a tour of Europe in the summer of 1906, and allowing her to entertain her friends at their house. And Henry M. Fenner was always her big brother.
How exactly she and Richard met is unrecorded. The first mention of their courtship is in Henry M.'s diary, July 1-2, 1907, noting that Laura went to East Greenwich. On September 13th of that year, he notes "Knight here for dinner." Laura spennt a week in June at East Greenwich the following year. In 1909, the two mothers exchanged visits. Laura announced her engagement on December 11th, 1911. Henry M. handled all of the details of his sister's wedding, from the catering to addressinng the invitations, including taking out an $800.00 loan to finance the event. The wedding was on Saturday, February 15th, 1913 at 7:00PM, in the southeast corner of the parlor of the family's home. The Orpheus Orchestra ( piano, violin and cellllo ) played. There were 200 guests. Richard Greene Howland Knight was born and brought up at Howland Hall, East Greenwich. He attended a one room grammar school on the South County Trail. He attended high school at the East Greenwich Academy, o on Pierce Street in East Greenwich. He then took a one-year course in mechanical engineering at the Rhode Island State College, in Kingston, Rhode Island ( now the University of Rhode Island ). A graduate of the Bradford Durfee Textile School of Fall River, Massachusetts, RGHK worked in the textile industry all of his life. Before his marriage, he worked for the Nottingham Mill in Providence. He met and married Laura Fenner and they lived at 22 Pierce Street, East Greenwich. On 15 December 1913, he became Overseer for the Booth Mill in New Bedford, Massachusetts. he and his bride took up residence with Captain Cleveland master of the whaler Charles W. Morgan ( The ship is today fully restored and part of the collection at the Mystic, Connecticutt Seaport. ) Later the moved to 39 Keane Street. In June of 1915, he moved back to Providence ( to 49 Tenth Street ) to work for the Weypoyset Manufacturing Company, located in Central Falls. Then, in 1917, he became the Night Superintendant for the Weypoyset Mill. In 1920\21, he went to Fall River, Massachusetts Superintendant of the Shove Mills, located on South Main Street at the Tiverton line. The B.M.C.Durfee Bank called in a loan and put the company out of business in the early Depression years. he then ran a cork roll factory, which covered rolls for the textile industry. He was Commodore of the Fall River Yacht Club, reelected in 1928. In 1938\39 he became Assistant Superintendant ( and later Superintendant ) of the Panemah Mills at Taftville, Connecticutt, and remained there until his retirement in 1955. He retired to his summer home ( now winterized ) at Wickford, Rhode Island.
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Tripp Families of North America
1886 - 1964 (78 years)