Anyone want to take a crack at deciphering an employer name on a WWI draft card?

Question

My great grandfather's World War I draft card lists his employer, but I'm having trouble making out the name.  Anyone want to give it a shot?  I came up with one possibility but can't find anyone by that last name in Rhode Island in the early 1900s, so I think I've got it wrong.  Employer address is definitely Ocean Lawn, Newport, Rhode Island.

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8WQ-YSY : 13 March 2018), George Franklin Hazard, 1917-1918; citing Providence County no 1, Rhode Island, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,852,401.

Answer 1

I think this might be Mrs. R. I. Gammell (as in Robert Ives Gammell). 

William Gammell Cottage (c. 1872)

• Gammell Estate
• Architect: Unknown
• Located: Anandale Road Area
• Demolished: 1955

 
 

Built for William Gammell, a distinguished professor at Brown University in Providence,this large Italianate cottage with fanciful bracketed eaves was demolished fora contemporary house in 1948. Known as North Cottage in the Gammell family, the William Gammell House flanked that of Mrs. Thomas Shaw-Safe (nee Harriet Ives Gammell) called Ocean Lawn by Peabody & Stearns (extant, 1889), architects,and that of Mr. R. S. Gammell. The latter Gammell cottage, South Cottage, or Southerly, was demolished in 1955 and its site incorporated into the former Shaw-Safe property by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone. 

Comments

What a shame it was demolished and not restored - looks like a real pretty place

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Thank you!  That sounds very plausible.  Now I need to figure out why he and his family moved from Newport to Providence if he was still working in Newport.

Answer 2

It might be Gammell.  There is a Gammell Rd near Ocean Lawn Ln in Newport, and a Robert I Gammell (born 1852) lived near there in 1915.

"Rhode Island State Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMMK-3T7 : 11 March 2018), Robert I Gammell, Newport Ward 04, E.D. 067, Newport, Rhode Island; citing p. O, line 23, State Archives, Providence; FHL microfilm 1,769,153.

Comments

Thank you!  I should have scrolled up a little on the map... might have spotted that myself.  I see Robert died in 1915 but his wife lived until 1938; she probably would have referred to herself formally as Mrs. Robert I. Gammell.

(I also noticed a Slocum Street nearby... I have Slocums further back in that family so that'll be interesting to look at later.  Slowly working my way back.)

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You're welcome!  Notice also that in 1910, Robert and Eliza lived in Providence with nine servants.  If Eliza divided her time between homes in Providence and Newport, that might have something to do with George's choice of abode.

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I was just starting to look into that last night.  I suspect that might explain it.  (George's wife and children, including my grandfather, moved back to live with family in Newport after he died in Providence, 1922.)