Background
Cross, Harry Parsons was born on September 29, 1873 in Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Elisha Watson and Frances Cooper (Wright) Cross.
Cross, Harry Parsons was born on September 29, 1873 in Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Elisha Watson and Frances Cooper (Wright) Cross.
Graduate St. Paul’s School, 1892. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1896. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1900.
; children—Lorania (Mistress Ronald M. Scott), Frances King (Mistress Philip H. Cruikshank), Harry King. Married second Virginia Gammell, 1906 (div.). Children—Hope Gammell (Mistress Hope Gammell Curtis), Virginia (Mistress Carlton R. Mabley, Junior), Elisa Anthony Hoppin (Mistress Curtis B. Brooks).
Married 3d Lucile Lawson Atwood, 1929. Admitted to Rhode Island bar, 1901, Circuit Court United States, 1902, Supreme Court United States, 1909. 2d assistant attorney general Rhode Island, 1907-1912, 1st assistant attorney general, 1913.
Member Greenough, Easton & Cross, 1912-1929, Greenough, Lyman & Cross since 1929. Secretary Hopelands Company. Director, member Executive Committee Industrial Trust Company, Providence, board of managers Westerly.
Director Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, Providence Journal Company, Rhode Island Tool Company Chairman senate redistricting committee Rhode Island State Legislature, 1925. Chairman state commission for re-apportionment legislative districts Rhode Island 1928. Chairman R,I. State House Commission, 1933-1939.
Incorporator, secretary Providence Governmental Research Bureau, 1932-1943. Secretary Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, 1943-1950. Chairman Republican State Convention, 1906, 18.
Delegate-at-large Republican Convention, Chicago, 1916. Rhode Island representative auxiliary committee President Taft Inaugural Ball, 1909. State chairman President Roosevelt Memorial Campaign, 1919.
President, trustee, incorporator Lincoln School, 1912. President Rhode Island Society Prevention Cruelty Children, 1924-1935, honorary Chairman, Board Of Directors since 1935. Member board of trustees, executive committee Roger Williams General Hospital.
Member Greenough, Easton & Cross, 1912-1929, Greenough, Lyman & Cross since 1929. Member General Society Colonial Wars (past historian general, lieutenant governor general. Mason.; Clubs: Somerset (Boston).
Married Lorania Carrington King, 1896 (deceased.; married second Virginia Gammell, 1906 (divorced).; married 3d Lucile Lawson Atwood, 1929.
Children: Lorania (Mistress.