[1] He attended Mowry & Goff's, a private school in Providence, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1878.

[1] After graduation, Lippitt and joined his family's cotton textile manufacturing business.

Lippitt had been elected by the state legislature, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916, following passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided that U.S.

[5] He was also a member of New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association,[5] and in 1892 he joined the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.

[6] In 1881 Lippitt married Mary Louise Bowen, a member of another family prominent in the Rhode Island textile manufacturing business.