The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . canin politics, and attends Piedmont Church. Though years of age,time has sat lightly on him, and few would believe him to be over sixty. Oliver Brooks Wood, son of Eliphalet S. and Susan Hudson (Farrar) Wood,was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, February 7, 1857. At the age oftwelve he began work in a printing-officein Winchendon, and with the exceptionof about five years spent in obtaining hiseducation, he has been actively engagedin the printing business from that an early age he became foreman in th
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . canin politics, and attends Piedmont Church. Though years of age,time has sat lightly on him, and few would believe him to be over sixty. Oliver Brooks Wood, son of Eliphalet S. and Susan Hudson (Farrar) Wood,was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, February 7, 1857. At the age oftwelve he began work in a printing-officein Winchendon, and with the exceptionof about five years spent in obtaining hiseducation, he has been actively engagedin the printing business from that an early age he became foreman in thenewspaper and job office of the FranklinCounty Times at Greenfield, and laterwas engaged in offices in Fitchburg andChicago. In 1878 he returned East andtook charge of the job-printing estab-lishment of Edward R. Fiske, in Worces-ter, at that time one of the largest officesin the city. In 1880 he engaged withSanford & Co., stationers and printers,as foreman of their printing department,and in 1882 purchased a half interest inthis department, which was conducted. OLIVER B. WOOD. The Worcester of 1898. 799 under the name of Sanford & Wood until a few months later, when hebecame the sole owner, and has carried on the business alone to the presenttime. In 1S94, having outgrown the old quarters on Maple street, heremoved to the commodious building at No. 50 Foster street, where hisestablishment occupies the entire second story. Law and mercantileprinting is a specialty, and the work of his office has always maintained ahigh reputation for excellence and accuracy. Mr. Wood is connected with several Masonic, military, social and otherbodies in Worcester, and has been president of the local Typothetae. Inpolitics he is a Republican. He was married in 1881 to Jennie Chase Flaggof Grafton. They have had four children: Olive Marguerite, RogerHamilton (died in infancy), Hamilton Brooks and Gladys Jeannette Wood. William Woodward,* son of Francis Gardnerand Mary (Phillips) Woodward,was bor
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