Rhode Island lost a giant in the state’s manufacturing history when Henry “Hank” Sharpe Jr. passed away earlier this month.
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Henry Sharpe, Rhode Island philanthropist and manufacturing leader, dies at 99
Henry “Hank” Sharpe, Jr., philanthropist and longtime president of the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company, passed away Friday in Maine at 99 years old, his family said Thursday. Born in Providence in 1923, Sharpe was a graduate of Brown University and a Navy veteran of World War II. He took the helm of the well-known […]
