Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — S. W. WOODWARD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

S. W. WOODWARD.

Something About the Probnble Head of the Inauguration Committee. S. W. Woodward, who is likely to be chairman of the Committee of Arrangements for the inauguration of President McKinley nest March, is 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 Dumajriscotta. In 1565 he went td Boston, where he was employed as a clerk in the houses of Shepard” Brothers and Cushing & Ames. In 1873 he formed a°partnership,with Mr. Lothrop and parted in business for himself in Chelsea, Mass., where the firm remained until the removal-to Washington in 1880. Though a Democrat in politics, Mr. Woodward’s selection for the trying task of arranging for the inaugural parade and ball and the entertainment of the hundreds of thousands of guests who are expected in the capital in March is indorsed by all classes.

S. W. WOODWARD.