The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Union street, in the old Howe & Goddard shop Thisbusiness assumed considerable proportions in a few years, and the firm thenknown as C. Whitcomb & Company, needing larger quarters for its ^row-ing business, moved, in 1852, into the Merrifield building at the corner ofLnion and Exchange streets, where it remained until burned out in thegreat fire of 1854. After the fire, the business was moved to the -Junctionshop for a few months, and then back again to the Merrifield building thistime at the corner of Exchange and Cypress
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Union street, in the old Howe & Goddard shop Thisbusiness assumed considerable proportions in a few years, and the firm thenknown as C. Whitcomb & Company, needing larger quarters for its ^row-ing business, moved, in 1852, into the Merrifield building at the corner ofLnion and Exchange streets, where it remained until burned out in thegreat fire of 1854. After the fire, the business was moved to the -Junctionshop for a few months, and then back again to the Merrifield building thistime at the corner of Exchange and Cypress streets. Li addition to themanufacture of copying-presses, the firm also took up the manufacture ofmetal-working machine-tools soon after its first establishment in the Merri-held building, and this branch of the business has since far outstripped thatot making copying-presses. In 187 i Carter Whitcomb retired from the firmand It has since been known as the Whitcomb Manufacturing CompanyLarger quarters still being required, Mr. Whitcomb moved, in 1872 to the. ALONZO WHITCOME The Worcester of 1898. 499 Estabrook shop at the Junction, and later, in 1877, to the Rice & Griffinshop on Gold street. Here Mr. Whitcomb experienced another disastrousfire, suffering a loss of $45,000, with but $5,000 insurance. In 1892 he builthis present shop at the corner of Sargent and Gold streets, and has sinceoccupied it in carrying on his business. The principal products of the company now are metal planers, shears,punches and copying-presses, of which the first named have become thecompanys specialty. As many as 4,000 copying-presses were made by in a single year at one period, and the planers produced by himnow number over 2,600. In partnership with Augustus Rice, Mr. Whit-comb succeeded to the business of Timothy F. Taft in 1866, and, as aseparate firm, under the name of Rice & Whitcomb, carried on the businessof making metal shears and presses, until the retirement of Mr. Rice brou
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