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2 4 ATWOOD. ATWOOD. the Boston Manufacturers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which position he still holds. October 4, 1855, at Brookline, Mr. Atkin- son married Mary C, daughter of Charles and Caroline (Penniman) Heath. He has seven children living. In 1SS7 he was appointed by President Cleveland special commissioner to report upon the status of bi-metallism in Europe. He was one of the founders of the New England Emigrant Aid Society, one of the founders and is now director of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. He is an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard University), member of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- ences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member and corresponding secretary of the Ameri- can Statistical Association, member of the International Statistical Institute, Cobden Club of Great Britain, the Unitarian Club of Boston, etc. He has received the degree of LL. D. from the University of South Carolina and Ph. D. from Dartmouth. Mr. Atkinson has been a prolific writer on economic questions, and is an ardent advocate of a currency based wholly on bullion of full value, dollar for dollar ; he holds that the most effective method of protecting and promoting home industry, is to remove all obstructions to commerce with other nations which the necessity of the country for a customs revenue will per- mit. He holds that the highest-priced labor is the cheapest, because most effec- tive. He is not afraid of the so-called pauper labor of Europe, but agrees with Daniel Webster that there are a consider- able number of undesirable kinds of work that we cannot afford to take up ourselves, when the so-called pauper laborers of Europe can be so readily hired to do them. ATWOOD, Harrison Henry, son of Peter Clark and Helen M. (Aldrich) At- wood, was born in North Londonderry, Windham county, Vt., August 26, 1863. The public schools of Chariestown and the Phillips school, Boston, gave him his school-day training, He first started to earn a livelihood in the office of Godfrey Morse and John R. Bullard, counselors-at- law. He afterward studied architecture and served four years in the office of S. J. F. Thayer, working a year and a half in the office of George A. Clough, after he hail left the city architect's office. He has practiced his profession in Boston about seven years. Nlr. Atwood has served three years, 1887, '88, '89, as member of the House of Representatives, being appointed to the committees on state house, liquor law, mer- cantile affairs and cities. In May of the latter year he qualified as architect for the city of Boston, a position to which he had been appointed by Mayor Hart. He was first alternate delegate from the 4th congres- sional district to the national Republican convention at Chicago, 1S88. He is a member of the Masonic frater- nity, also of the I. O. O. F. He has been a member of the Republican ward and city committee of Boston for five years, serving as secretary three years, and has been two years a member of the Republican state central committee. He is unmarried. ATWOOD, SIMEON, son of Simeon and Ruth Atwood, was born in Wellfleet, Barnstable county, July 27, 1825. SIMEON ATWOOD He obtained his education in the com- mon schools of those days. Leaving school, he followed the sea for a time. In 1850 he began his business life in the stove and hardware trade, Wellfleet. In 1852 he was with Knowles, Dyer & Co., grocers, his father being one of the firm. In 1864 the company was dissolved, and he carried on the business, taking his brother, E. T. Atwood, into the firm. These relations continued till 1*77, when he sold his interest to his brother In 1882 he again bought