. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . getting hisschooling winters atthe district school,and later at theFarmington Acad-emy. Having a me-chanical bent ofmind, at the age oftwenty years helearned the carpen-ters trade, which heintended to years later,however, he planned,with his employer,the erection of asash, door and blindfactory in Farming-ton, and came toMassachusettsto purchase the ne-cessary was the turningpoint in his of returningto Maine, he eng
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . getting hisschooling winters atthe district school,and later at theFarmington Acad-emy. Having a me-chanical bent ofmind, at the age oftwenty years helearned the carpen-ters trade, which heintended to years later,however, he planned,with his employer,the erection of asash, door and blindfactory in Farming-ton, and came toMassachusettsto purchase the ne-cessary was the turningpoint in his of returningto Maine, he engagedas a journeyman inthe same business, inBoston, with SolomonS. Gray. Within a year Mr. Woods had bought out his employer, and onJan. I, 1852, went into the business of manufacturingsashes, doors and blinds on his own account. Twoyears later he formed a partnership with Mr. Gray,under the firm name of Gray & Woods, for the manu-facture and sale of a wood-planing machine, originallyinvented by Mr. Gray, but rendered much more jirac-tical by Mr. Woodss improvements. The partnershiplasted seven years. In 1865 Mr. Woodss business,. SOLOMON A. WOODS. which had grown to large proportions, was still furtherextended by the manufacture of the improved Wood-bury planer. To meet the increasing demands of hisbusiness, Mr. Woods erected a manufactory in SouthBoston, and branch houses were established in NewYork and Chicago. In 1873 the S. A. W^oods MachineCompany was incorporated, with a capital of. $300,000,and with Mr. Woods as president, an office he stillholds. To the successive firms of Gray & Woods, S. A. Woods and the S. MachineCompany, more thanfifty patents for de-vices and improve-ments in machinesfor planing woodand making mould-ings have been is-sued, and from theMassachusetts Char-itable Mechanic As-sociation and otherinstitutions theyhave received nearlya hundred Woods has beena member of theBoston CommonCouncil, a directorof the East Bostonferries, and si
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