Harry Parsons Cross received early education in the public schools, this being supplemented by a course at the Wakefield high school, from which he was graduated. Subsequently he attended St. Paul's school in New Hampshire, two years later graduating from Yale College in 1896 with the degree of B.A. He was a famous athlete while at college, playing center rush on the football team, and an expert hammer-thrower and shot-putter. In 1899 he graduated from the Harvard Law School since which time has was successfully engaged in a general practice in Providence.
On Dec 18, 1896, Mr. Cross married Lorania Carrington King, daughter of Frederick A. and Lorania (Jones) King. She died Jan 3 1904 leaving three children, Lorania Carrington, Harry King, and Frances King.
On April 18, 1906, he married Virginia, daughter of Robert Ives Gammell, of Providence.
Harry Parsons Cross received early education in the public schools, this being supplemented by a course at the Wakefield high school, from which he was graduated. Subsequently he attended St. Paul's school in New Hampshire, two years later graduating from Yale College in 1896 with the degree of B.A. He was a famous athlete while at college, playing center rush on the football team, and an expert hammer-thrower and shot-putter. In 1899 he graduated from the Harvard Law School since which time has was successfully engaged in a general practice in Providence.
On Dec 18, 1896, Mr. Cross married Lorania Carrington King, daughter of Frederick A. and Lorania (Jones) King. She died Jan 3 1904 leaving three children, Lorania Carrington, Harry King, and Frances King.
On April 18, 1906, he married Virginia, daughter of Robert Ives Gammell, of Providence.
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