William Greene Roelker

1886 – 1953

• One hundred fifty years of Providence Washington Insurance Company, 1799-1949
• "But, gentlemen, who shall oversee the overseers?" ...
• Civil war letters of William Ames from Brown University to Bull Run
• Extracts from the diaries of John Quincy Adams, 1787, and his son, Charles Francis Adams, 1825
• Francis Wayland, a neglected pioneer of higher education
• Massachusetts' war with Samuell Gorton
• The Abbotts of Lowell, Massachusetts in the Civil War