Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — S. W. WOODWARD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

S. W. WOODWARD.

Something About the Probable Head , of the Inauguration Committee, 8. W. Woodward, who is likely to be chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for the Inauguration of President McKinley next March, la one of the leading merchants of Washington. He was born in Maine and began his business career as a young man in the dry goods store of Frank H. Converse, a merchant

in his native place of Damariscotta. In 1865 he went to Boston, where he wns employed as a clerk in the houses of Shepard Brothers and Cushing & Ames. In 1873 he formed a partnership with Mr. Lothrop nnd started in business for himself in Chelsea, Mass., where the firm remained until the removal to Washington in 1880. Though a Dombcrat in politics, Mr. Woodward's selection for the trying task of arranging for the inaugural parade nnd bail and the entertainment of the hundreds of thousands of guest* who are expected in the capital in March is indorsed by all classes.

S. W. WOODWARD.