Education
Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston.
Born at the home of his grandmother in North Londonderry, Vermont, Atwood attended the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts. He studied architecture and engaged in that profession in Boston.
Atwood was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897). Atwood defeated incumbent Democrat Michael J. McEttrick. Atwood was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
He resumed his former profession in Boston.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress. He resumed his profession as an architect in Boston, Massachusetts.
He moved to Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, in April 1938. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1954.
He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery.
1888-1894 Member and secretary of the Boston Republican City Committee. 1888 and 1892 Delegate to the Republican National Convention. 1889-1890 City Architect of Boston, designed the Bowditch School, the Congress Street Fire Station, and the Harvard Avenue Fire Station, all on the National Register of Historic Places.
Atwood also designed several churches for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1896, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928. He was again a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1915, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, and 1928. 1887-1889 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the Eighth Suffolk district
1887-1889 Member of the Republican State Committee.
