Moses Brown Ives

[1] Ives graduated from Brown University in 1812 and then attended Litchfield Law School before traveling abroad in Europe.

Annie, the daughter of Sullivan Dorr, a prosperous manufacturer and co-owner of Bernon Mill Village, was the sister of Thomas Wilson Dorr, the extralegal Governor of Rhode Island.

[1] Together, they were the parents of two children:[5] His desk-and-bookcase were made in Providence, Rhode Island at the end of the 18th Century.

[10] Ives died on August 7, 1857, and was buried in Providence's North Burial Ground.

Upon his death, he created a bequest which was used to provide some of the early funding for the creation of Rhode Island Hospital in 1863.