Individual Details

Event

He became associated as a partner with Perez Peck in 1839, in the manufacture of cotton machinery, under the firm name of Perez Peck& Company, and this association was continued until the late fifties.

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Mr. Sisson removed to Hamilton in 1865,in North Kingstown township, and manufactured cotton yarn at the Annaquatucket Mill for some years. Mr. Sisson organized the Hamilton Company in 1850, his associates in this enterprise being Perez and Isaac Peck and S. H. Vaughan, and cotton yarn was manufactured by the concern at Hamilton, Rhode Island, the village having been given its name at the suggestion of Mr. Sisson. Later, in partnership with Ambrose E. Vaughan, Mr. Sisson owned and managed the Bayside Iron Foundry at Wickford, and for a time was an inspector in the employ of the Providence Water Works, when the iron pipes were being cast for the use of the city.

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He became an official of the Hamilton Web Company in 1873, remained with this concern in this capacity for a period of ten years, when heagain entered the employ of the Providence Water Works, and was active there until his death. In political matters Mr. Sisson was always a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and held some local offices while residing in Coventry. The cause of temperance was one in which he took a deep interest, and he was an active member in the Order of Sons of Temperance. He was a member of the Temple of Honor, and other temperance organizations. His religious affiliation was with the Society of Friends.

Death

his remains were interred in the Friends' Cemetery at Coventry, Rhode Island.