Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . f twenty-one hewas placed in charge of the mill of S. M. Wheelock& Company, at Wilsonville, Connecticut, where ahundred men and women were employed at thattime, and remained there for three years. In June,1870, Mr. Wheelock was sent to Putnam, Connecti-cut, as superintendent and agent of the PutnamWoolen Companys No. 1, Mill, recently purchasedof the Harris Company. This new company en-larged its business in 1880 by purchasing the mill in
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . f twenty-one hewas placed in charge of the mill of S. M. Wheelock& Company, at Wilsonville, Connecticut, where ahundred men and women were employed at thattime, and remained there for three years. In June,1870, Mr. Wheelock was sent to Putnam, Connecti-cut, as superintendent and agent of the PutnamWoolen Companys No. 1, Mill, recently purchasedof the Harris Company. This new company en-larged its business in 1880 by purchasing the mill inPutnam then owned by C. F. Mason & Company,and Mr. Wheelock became the manager also of thatmill. In 1886, when his father resigned, he waselected treasurer of the Putnam Woolen Company,and has since been both treasurer and business of the company has flourished underhis charge. The mills contain nineteen sets of ma-chinery, employing three hundred and fifty hands,manufacturing woolen cassimeres, overcoatings andsuitings. The company owns what is deemed thebest water power on the stream. Mr. Wheelock is a Republican in politics, and. * W. (•. WORCESTER COUNTY 345 lias for a number of jears served on the town com-mittee. In i88S and 1889 he was on the Connecti-cut state central committee of his party. He has formore than twelve ytars served on the Board ofEducation, and was one of the building committeefor the high school in 1874. He is a trustee of thePutnam Town Library, and a trustee of thePutnam Cemetery Association. He is a member ofUxbndge Lodge, L O. O. F., Quinebaug Lodge, , F. ancf A. JNL, of which he was worshipful mas-ter four years; Putnam Royal Arch Chapter Lodge I. U. O. F.; Quinebaug L-odge, ; Columbian Commandery, K. T., of Norwich,Connecticut; Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine, ofBoston; and he was a member of the Knights ofPythias of Putnam until they disbanded. He is adirector of the First National Bank of Putnam
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