continued from part 1.
"When the first founders of the Providence Institution of Savings met to
organize a savings bank, one of their number was but twenty-four years old;
his name was Zachariah Allen. He was born in Providence, September 15,
1795, the son of Zachariah Allen, a prominent ship owner and land holder
who had the distinction of being the first printer of calico in New
England -- this original cotton printing coming, in 1790, from Mr.
Allen's mill somewhere in the town of East Greenwich.
Zachariah Allen, Jr., or the one whom we are to describe more fully,
graduated from Brown in 1813, after completing his early education, at
first in a private school at Medford, and later in Phillips Academy at
Exeter. Mr. Allen attended the medical school at Brown following his
graduation, but shortly thereafter he entered the law office of Senator
James Burrill, and was admitted to the bar in 1815.
There is no accurate picture of the young man who, barely reaching his
majority, had completed a full course of early nineteenth century
intellectual, cultural and professional training, but, from a later-in-life
portrait was can deduce that he was tall, erect, deliberate, methodical,
reliable, agreeable and versatile. The record of his accomplishments bears
out the accurate selection of the foregoing adjectives describing the
characteristics of Zachariah Allen."
continued in part 3.