. History of Worcester and its people . land,He continued in the banking business until 1883. when Jjf engaged in business atLynn, as a manufacturer of paper Ijoxes under the name of the New England PaperBox Company. In 1888. he sold out and removed to Boston. Tliree years later,in i8gi, he organized the Hobbs Manufacturing Company of Worcester, in associ-ation with Richard Sugden and Harry W. Goddard of the Spencer Wire Company,and began to make paper box machinery in a building on Union Street, in company prospered and the business was incorporated under its present namein 1895

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. History of Worcester and its people . land,He continued in the banking business until 1883. when Jjf engaged in business atLynn, as a manufacturer of paper Ijoxes under the name of the New England PaperBox Company. In 1888. he sold out and removed to Boston. Tliree years later,in i8gi, he organized the Hobbs Manufacturing Company of Worcester, in associ-ation with Richard Sugden and Harry W. Goddard of the Spencer Wire Company,and began to make paper box machinery in a building on Union Street, in company prospered and the business was incorporated under its present namein 1895. In i()03 the factory at No. 26 Salisbury street previously occupied byWitherby. Rugg &• Richardson, was purchased, and soon afterward another largebrick building added. Mr. Hobbs has been president, and Mr. Goddard secretaryof the corporation from the beginning. Mr. Hobbs is a member of tlie CommonwealthClub. Economic Club. Central Congregational Church, the Voung Mens ChristianAssociation and the Worcester Chamber of V i; t ^ mitta^ >7^

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