Edward G. Roddy Papers

Edward G. Roddy (1921-1985), a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University, was a professor of history at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA. His areas of interest were immigrants, labor, social history, and biography as history. In 1975, Mr. Roddy worked with the Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (later the American Textile History Museum) on a project to study the Shawsheen Village in Andover, MA, a corporate community built ca. 1918 by William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company located in Lawrence, MA. In 1982 Roddy published his chief work, Mills, Mansions and Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood.