Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . , in 1895, and Mr. Wood began businessthere in 1896. At present the officers of the com-pany are: President and treasurer, Peter Wood;directors. Robert Wood, his son, and Ini C. Wood is the boss bleacher. Another son,Peter Wood, Jr., is superintendent of the company bleaches and dyes cotton yarns andwarps, threads, tapes, braids, etc., largely for thecotton mills, employing thirty or more hands regu-larly. Mr. Wood
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . , in 1895, and Mr. Wood began businessthere in 1896. At present the officers of the com-pany are: President and treasurer, Peter Wood;directors. Robert Wood, his son, and Ini C. Wood is the boss bleacher. Another son,Peter Wood, Jr., is superintendent of the company bleaches and dyes cotton yarns andwarps, threads, tapes, braids, etc., largely for thecotton mills, employing thirty or more hands regu-larly. Mr. Wood has interests in several othersuccessful Worcester enterprises. In 1887 Mr. Wood,Robert Ruddy and Robert Redford started the threadfactory on Manchester street under the firm nameof Ruddy Thread Company. It developed into anexcellent business, but in 1899 it seemed advisableto sell out to the trust—The American Thread Com-pany. But Mr. Wood and his associates did notstay out of the thread business long. Mr. Woodbought the shop of the Worcester Steam HeatingCompany at 116 Gold street. Mr. Wood, JamesMontgomery, Charles Dolan, Charles Hall and James .. ,^^ ~^A/-^^:z^^ WORCESTER COUNTY Ruddy became the directors of the WachusettThread Company, which for several years has con-ducted a profitable and growing business in themanufacture of thread. Mr. Wood is president,Mr. Dolan superintendent of the mill and treasurer. The business in 1905amounted to $360,000. Mr. Dolan has demonstratedthe fact that he has good judgment and businessability. The industries that he has established havebeen creditable to the city as well as to him, andthere is every prospect that the business has a greatfuture in Worcester. Mr. Wood is a member of theWorcester Lodge of Elks, No. 243; Alhambra Lodge,Knights of Columbus, and of the Frohsinns. He be-longs to the Roman Catholic Church of St. Petersparish, Worcester. In politics he is a married (first), November 24. 1875, AnneMc
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