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HON. JOHN WKNIWUKTH. LI.. D.
JuHN WtXTWuRTH, son of Paul and Lydia i
Cogswell) Wentworth. was
born March 5, 1815, in Sandwich, N. H. He graduated from Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1836. After graduation, Oct. 25, 1836, he found himself in Chicago,
111. He soon became the editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat, with
which he was connected for twenty-four years. In the winter of 1836-7 he
took part in the town meeting in Chicago called to consider tiie propriety of
adopting a city charter. In 1837 lie was elected Corporation Printer, and in
1838 he was chosen one of the Board of School Inspectors He studied law
at the Harvard Law School, and in 1841 was admitted to the bar. Mr. Went-
worth was elected to Congress in 1843, from the Fourth District of Illinois, at
the age of twenty-eight years, being the youngest member of the Twenty-eiglith
Congress. He was re elected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first
Congresses, and tlien declined re-election. He was a member of the Baltimore
National Convention in 1844. which nominated James K. Polk for President,
and also of the Convention of 1848, which nominated Gen. Lewis Cass. He
represented the new Second District of Illinois in the Thirty-third Congress,
and declined a re election. He was, however, chosen a member of the Thirtyninth
Congress for Cook County District, but declined re-election. Mr. Went-
worth was chosen Mayor of Chicago in 1S57, also in i860, and was in that
office at the reception given to the Prince of Wales. He was several years on
the Chicago Board of Education, and Police Commissioner in 1863-4. He
received, in 1867, the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth College.
Ho.\. JuHN WENrwoRTH married Jioxaiina Marie Loomis, of Troy, N. V.
She died Feb 5, 1870. Tneir children were : Riley Loomis, b. Aug. 24. 1845,
d. July 14, 1846; Marie Loomis, b. Sept. 13, 1847, d. Aug. 29, 1849; John,
b. Nov. 29, 1849. d. Feb. 23, 1852 ; Roxanna Atwater, b Oct. 28. 1854 ; John
Paul, b. Oct 18, 1857, d. March 27, 1858. Mr. Wentworth still resided, 1883,
in Chicago, 111. He made generous donations to his .Alma Mater, Dartmouth
College, and for several years was President of the Dartinouth Alumni. T/-/.
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i*lfmorantia.
L)i/n, Co^s'Mil IWiilU'Oili, Ik-c.imic (Ik >ec.m(l witc ut Rev. S.timicl Lcc, I). 1)., of N\w
I])swich, N. H.
Mr.: S.imiicl /,^anniel, w.is boni in licrlin, (.Cnii., .March iS, 1S03. His father
was the grandson of John Lee, one of the original proprietors of Farmington, Conn., and the
great-grandson nf John Lee, the Hartford I'uritan. Mr. Lee graduated at Vale in 1827, in
the same class with William .Adams. Theron Haldw'n, Horace lUishnell, Kobevt McEwen,
Joseph H. Townc, (.'ortlandt \'an Rensselaer, and other well-known men, and studied theolo';v
in the Vale .Seminaiv. He was onlaine'.l over the Trinitarian Church and Society in ."sher-
born, Mass., Nov. 4, 1S30, but resigned, and was installed. May 5, 1S36, over the Congregational
Church in New Ipswich, N. H. He retired from this pastorate Dec. 4, 1S60, and
resided in the tt)wn until hi- death. .\ug :-. iSSi. Mr. Lee had •> keen and vigorous mind,
with cimsiilerable -cholarshi]!. joined wiih .1 vmukwIliI peremptory manner and large absence
of all feclin;; of bondai^t to the |>.i-l. -o ih;ii theological and e.\egetical novelties rather
fascinated than .il.iinRil him. licMik- p.implilel-. he published, in 1S59, Eu/uitolo^-y: ,•>: Tlu-