Samuel Franklin Emmons 



1772, was United States Senator 

 from Rhode Island 1825-39, and 

 received the degree of LL. D. from 

 Brown in 1835. His grandfather, 

 William Little, Jr., who died early 

 in life, was noted as a linguist and 

 a scholar. His grandmother, Mrs. 

 Sophia Little, poet and philanthro- 

 pist, was a woman of remarkable 

 public spirit, energy and decision of 

 character, who retained her mental 

 and physical vigor in a most remark- 

 able degree up to the time of her 

 death in 1893, in her ninety-fifth 

 year. 



His immediate King ancestors 

 were pioneer merchants in the then 

 highly remunerative China trade, his 

 grandfather, Samuel Vernon King, 

 having been as early as 1803 a part- 

 ner in the commercial house of Tal- 

 bot, Olyphant & King. Four of the 

 latter's sons succeeded him in that 

 business, the house later becoming 



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