Joseph L. Woods Jr., an artist and former owner of a Baltimore toy company, died Jan. 11 of cancer at Talbot Hospice in Easton. He was 95.

Mr. Woods was born in Baltimore and was raised near the Baltimore Museum of Art. He was a 1932 graduate of Polytechnic Institute and studied mechanical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.

He also studied at the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art.

He went to work for Winchester & Woods Inc., a family-owned business that had been established in 1923. Located on Saratoga Street, the business manufactured toy watches for children, and during World War II, researched and developed products for the war effort, family members said.

Mr. Woods took over the business in the 1960s, which he operated until he retired in 1975.

In 1974, Mr. Woods, who had lived in Homeland, sold his home and moved to East Montgomery Street, where he and his wife restored a period Federal Hill home. In 2008, he moved to Easton.

Mr. Woods had been an active member of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association, MENSA and the Martini Club.

He had been a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and, later, Old St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where plans for a memorial service were incomplete.

Surviving are his wife of 68 years, the former Betty Porter; a son, Joseph Woods of Chalfont, Pa.; two daughters, Elizabeth Pirie of Cambridge and Janney Woods of Chicago; and nine grandchildren. Another son, David Porter Woods, died in 1995.