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NEW HAIViPSHIRE MEN IN LOWELL. 325 shop for fifteen years, and has been superintendent since the decease of Mr. Richardson, three years ago. He has devoted himself strictly to his business, but served tor three years as a member of the board of aldermen. The foreman of the foundery connected with this establishment, Mr. George B. Smith, is a native of the town of Wentworth, forty-five years of age, who came to Lowell in early youth and has been employed in the same establishment for nearly thirty years. For six years past he has had charge of the foundery work. He is a member of the board of aldermen in the present city government, and is a staunch Democrat in politics.

Edward P. Woods, of the firm of Woods, Sherwood & Co., who are extensively engaged in the manufacture of White Lustral Wire Ware, is a native of the town of Newport, born September 15, 1827. His father was the Rev. John Woods, for many years pastor of the Congregational church in that town. He was educated at Kimball Union Academy, traveled extensively abroad, and was for some time engaged in the laboratory of Dr. J. C. Ayer, in Lowell, before engaging in the business in which he is now occupied, and which his energy and capacity have carried forward to a wonderful degree of success. The productions of this establishment, embracing more than two hundred articles of household utility, are sold in all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Woods has served as a member of the city council on different occasions, and has been instrumental in the adoption of various municipal improvements. He is a moving spirit in the Y. M. C. A. of the city, and has been president of the organization for the last two years.

Artemas B. Woodworth, a native of Dorchester, forty-one years of age, is the sole surviving member of the well known lumber firm of A. L. Brooks & Co. Mr. Woodworth, who is an older brother of Albert B. and Edward B. Woodworth, wholesale flour and grain merchants of Concord, went to Lowell in 1861 and engaged in the employ of Mr. Brooks in the lumber business. He became a member of the firm in 1871, and on the death of Mr. Brooks succeeded to the business. He operates an extensive lumber mill at Middlesex village and at the Mechanics Mills on Dutton Street (all the property of the firm), does a heavy business in the manufacture of packing boxes, moldings, house finish, etc. Mr. Woodworth is a member of the city council the present year.

Maj. Henry Emery, proprietor and manager of the Merrimack House, one of the oldest and best known hotels in the city, is one of the sixteen children of the late Nathan Emery, of Canterbury, where he was born in November, 1814. He left home in 1833, was in the hotel business for a time in Boston and Cambridge, but has been in Lowell, as landlord of the Merrimack for the past thirty-seven years. He is not only a model landlord, but a model farmer, also, having one of the best farms in the state, just outside the city, where he raises heavy crops of hay and corn.

Alfred Oilman, a native of Portsmouth, now seventy years of age, came to Lowell in 1829. He had learned the printer's trade in Nashua, and worked at the same for two or three years in the office of the Lowell Mercury, having charge of the mechanical department. He worked for a time in Boston, and then in Bangor, but returned to Lowell, and established a job printing office. He soon afterward published a ladies' paper, known as the Album, but sold it, and then for a time printed the Evangelist. About 1834 he went to Laconia and published the Citizen's Press, but returned to Lowell the following year and accepted the position of paymaster in the Hamilton Mills, which place he occupied fifteen years. He was postmaster of Lowell from 1849 to 1853, and in the following year commenced business as a merchant tailor, which he still pursues. He has been four years a member of the common 2