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William Wood (18 February 1873 [1] – 3 March 1956) was a British trade union leader. Wood was born in Bolton, Lancashire. [2] He left school at the age of 11, and began working half-time at a cotton mill. He joined the Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association, and began working for the union in 1905. In 1914, he ...
Sources Compiled by Gareth Hughes, based on the preliminary list of drawings held in the RIBA Drawings Collection. This is as complete a list as can be achieved, although some works have gone unrecorded because of the loss of most of Clough Williams-Ellis's office papers in a fire in 1951. In addition, a number of drawings in the collection are not from Clough's office and may represent ...
St. Michael's Mount, by William Wood Deane In May 1865, he left for Venice , intending to settle in Italy, but returned in October of the same year, and went to 64 King Henry's Road, Hampstead . He was a born sketcher, but made great strides in the technical knowledge of his art during his stay in Venice.
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Andrew Carnegie was also his client; the initial 1889 portion of the Carnegie Free Library of Braddock, Pennsylvania, the first of Carnegie's 1,679 public libraries in the US to open (1889) and the second to have been commissioned (1887), is Wood's design. It is believed that Wood met Carnegie through William Clark, also a Scottish immigrant. [3]
William Madison Wood (June 18, 1858 – February 2, 1926) was an American textile mill owner of Lawrence, Massachusetts who was considered to be an expert in efficiency. [ citation needed ] He made a good deal of his fortune through being hired by mill owners to turn around failing mills and was despised by organized labor.
Wood was a compositor, and became the Secretary of the Manchester Typographical Society, serving until 1879. [1] In 1864, he was elected as the first Secretary of the Manchester Trades Council. [2] A keen trade unionist, Wood played a prominent role in two national union conferences: in Sheffield in 1866, and in London in 1867. [3]