Providence Rhode Island in 1880

List of employees in the Public Lamps Department in the City of Providence Rhode Island in 1880 from the 1880 Directory of City Government for your genealogy research to help find ancestors.

Public Lamps Department

Samuel B. Swan, Superintendent of Lights
Lamplighters
	George H. Allen	James J. McElroy
	Edward H. Armington	Peter McElroy
	William S. Armstrong	John J. McGuckin
	Everett L. Belcher	John G. McKay
	Daniel S. Brown	William Morgan
	Edward H. Burgess	Dennis Murphy
	John Burns	John O'Neill
	Dennis Carney	Frank O'Toole
	Henry Carney	Robert C. Pierson
	Andrew J. Cartwright	Michael Queenan
	Melvin D. Cartwright	John Reilly
	George Crittenden	C. E. Remington
	James Croonan	Croasdale Robinson
	George P. Crossman	John C. Robinson
	William Day	Frederick W. Ruckert
	Franklin A. Dunbar	John Ryan
	James F. Eddy	Michael Ryan
	Marshall M. Francis	Charles P. Shearman
	William F. Gilmore	David G. Shippee
	James E. Graham	Edward H. Smith
	James G. Greene	Daniel F. Sullivan
	Peter Healy	Eugene F. Tabor
	John Jones	F. Augustus Talbot
	Dennis Karney	Henry Thompson
	Michael Kelly	William H. Tilley
	George W. Kingsbury	William H. Walcott
	Michael Maher	Michael Walsh
	William A. Malloy	Frederick H. Watkins
	Edwin M. Massie	Albert J. Webb
	Davis Mathewson	William S. Webb
	Neil McCann	Thomas Winn

	William H. Horton, Lantern Cleaner, Electric District
	John Goodwin, Helper
	Earl C. Downing, Repairer of Glass and Tin Work
	George W. Hill, Teamster
	Men in Charge of Gas Cocks and Burners
	Edward T. Chubbuck	Austin Gay
	James W. Hayward	George Sloan
	Lamp Committee of the Board of Aldermen
	Robert E. Smith	Charles F. Sampson
	Joint Committee on Lamps
	Thomas M. Rounds, Chairman	Charles F. Hull
	Henry B. Eddy	Charles F. Sampson

	Number of Public Lamps, December 31, 1879: Gas, 2,647; Naptha, 1,665; total 4,312. Total expenses for 13 months, as per quarterly reports $138,774.78. Source: Providence City Manual, 1880, Prepared by Henry V. A. Joslin, City Clerk. Providence: Providence Press Company, City Printers, 1880