Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . lligence, a great reader of books, of progressiveIdeas, and mechanical ingenuity May 18, 1843, he married Eunice A., daughter ofMarvin Kirkland. of Agawam. She died December3, 1890, havnig been the mother of two children,Sarah C. and Edward M. He died in the year 1904at the age of eighty-three, leaving an honorablerecord. Edward M. Wood, a resident of Worcester was?iv;?T,7 ^^tJ y*^^ ^ manufacturer of edge toolsat Millbury. He was born in
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . lligence, a great reader of books, of progressiveIdeas, and mechanical ingenuity May 18, 1843, he married Eunice A., daughter ofMarvin Kirkland. of Agawam. She died December3, 1890, havnig been the mother of two children,Sarah C. and Edward M. He died in the year 1904at the age of eighty-three, leaving an honorablerecord. Edward M. Wood, a resident of Worcester was?iv;?T,7 ^^tJ y*^^ ^ manufacturer of edge toolsat Millbury. He was born in Springfield. Massachu-setts January 27. 1851, attended the public schoolsot Worcester and the Wesleyan Academy at Wil-braham. He strove to become broad-minded bygood reading and the liberal education which asso-ciation with the men of the Commonwealth in-spires. With a desire to acquire a thorough of_ mechanical processes by actual labor underproper instructions, he was taught in the machineshop of Ethan Allen mechanical drawing, patternmaking, and the operation of various machine toolsas lathes, planers, milling machines, etc. Turning his. ^, C^^c^i-^a^^t^ 7^, CLrzrZr-z^ WORCESTER COUNTY 525 attention to the commercial side of manufacturing,after serving an apprenticeship in the hardware storeof White & Conant, lie, at the age of twenty-one,with a partner, opened a hardware store on Mainstreet near Frankhn square, in Worcester, and buy-ing out his partner in 1S79 he continued the businesssuccessfully until 1884, when he disposed of the sameto W. H. Willard & Co., who are at the presenttime (1906) continuing the business at the sameplace. In 1884 he became connected with the BuckBrothers Riverlin Works, edge tool manufactory inMillbury, and was for a number of years the seniormember of the firm. This enterprise is a fair rep-resentation of an old Sheffield industry, transplantedto this country and firmly established, and is theculmination of efforts of three generat
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