Notes for Frank CLARKE

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Notes for Frank CLARKE

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While engaged in the foreign trade, Mr. Bull, in connection
with Messrs. Bucklin and Crane of New York and his cousin
Mr. Edward Carrington of Providence, R. I., built four ves-
sels — the last one being the clipper ship "Comet" of 2000 tons,
buit in 1851, which under command of Captain E. C. Gardiner
of Providence, made some very quick passages. On April 15,
1854, Mr. Bull with his young friend Mr. Frank Clarke (after-
ward a Paymaster in the U. S. Navy and recently deceased) sailed
on the steamer "Atlantic" for England and France, on a short
trip combining pleasure and business. In 1859, while endeav-
oring to assist his friends in this country, Mr. Bull became in-
tei-ested in the cotton manufacturing industi-y in Rhode Island,
the res.ult being his j)urchase of the Hamlet Mill Estate in
Woonsocket. He exercised the sole manaacmont of this busi-
[etc.]
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