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Samuel Ward Manufacturing Company

active Boston, 1868 - about 1930

BiographySamuel Ward Company
1868-circa 1930
The Samuel Ward Co. was a book and stationary company begun by Samuel Ward (b. 1845 in Newton, Massachusetts) in 1868 Boston or Cambridge. In 1905 the company suffered heavy losses due to a fire. In 1913 the company's name changed to Samuel Ward Mfg. Co.

United StatesBoston
Reference
For a biography of Ward, see Albert Nelson Marquis, ed. Who's who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, A.N. Marquis & Company, 1916 edition, pg. 1109, http://books.google.com/books?id=5jk1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1109http://books.google.com/books?id=5jk1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1109 (accessed 06/26/2015)

For information on the fire, see The Standard, Volume 57, pg. August 26, 1905, pg. 183, Standard Publishing, 1906, http://books.google.com/books?id=pFHnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA183 (accessed 06/26/2015)

http://waywiser.fas.harvard.edu/people/1770/samuel-ward-company accessed 4/29/2020

Person TypeInstitution

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