The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . began its manufacture in 1875. I1878 the firm of Harwood & Quincy purchased the patents and rights andarranged with Mr. Edwin H. Wood, a skillful manufacturer of Worcester,to produce this feeder for them. This Mr. Wood continued to do in hisown shops until 1881, when the Harwood & Quincy Machine Company wasincorporated, and since that time Mr. Wood has been that companysgeneral manager in Worcester. The shops of the Harwood & Quincy ^lachine Company were built in1881 and are well-lighted brick structures on Lagrange street
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . began its manufacture in 1875. I1878 the firm of Harwood & Quincy purchased the patents and rights andarranged with Mr. Edwin H. Wood, a skillful manufacturer of Worcester,to produce this feeder for them. This Mr. Wood continued to do in hisown shops until 1881, when the Harwood & Quincy Machine Company wasincorporated, and since that time Mr. Wood has been that companysgeneral manager in Worcester. The shops of the Harwood & Quincy ^lachine Company were built in1881 and are well-lighted brick structures on Lagrange street adjacent tothe Boston & Albany, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and NewEngland railroads. The story of the success of the Bramwell feeder is besttold in the statement that nearly 10,000 of them have been made and soldon this continent since the patents were purchased from Mr. Bramwell. The present officers of the Harwood & Quincy Machine Company are:John Harwood, President; Sydney Harwood, Treasurer; and E. H. Wood, 478 The Worcester of FACTORY OF HARWOOD & QUINCY MACHINE COMPANY. General Manager. The Messrs. Harwood reside in Boston, but ^Nlr. Wood,the general manager, has made Worcester his home for almost a halfcentury. Other large establishments are N. A. Lombard & Company, 64 Schoolstreet, which dates back to 1823; the Cleveland Machine Company at 54Jackson street, making carding, spinning, twisting and finishing machinery;Johnson & Bassett, Foster street, wool-spinning machinery; David Gessnerat 172 Union street, finishing machinery for woolen and cotton goods; andA. K. Windle, 32 Union street. B. S. Roy & Son, 775 Southbridge street,make patent improved card-grinding machinery of every L. Brownell, 49 Union street, builds spinning and twisting ma-chinery for hard or soft twines, lines and cordage. THE ENVELOPE INDUSTRY. Logan, Swift & Brigham Envelope Company. — This corporation in March, 1884, the members being James Logan, Henry D
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