Wentworth, John (1815-1888)

Name:

Wentworth, John (1815-1888)

Title:

U.S. Representastive from IL, 1843-51, 1853-55, 1865-67
Mayor, Chicago, IL, 1857-58
LL.D., 1867

Other Names:

Hon. John Wentworth
"Long John"

Born:

03/05/1815

Birthplace:

Sandwich, NH

Died:

10/16/1888

Death Location:

Chicago, IL

Residence:

Sandwich, NH
Chicago, IL

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Sole Proprietor, the "Chicago Democrat"

Father:

Wentworth, Paul

Mother:

Wentworth, Lydia Cogswell

Relations:

Siblings:
Wentworth, Lydia C. (d. 1855; m. Rev. Samuel Lee, 4 children).
Wentworth, Joseph (1818-; m. Sarah P. Jones, 6 children)
Wentworth, George W. (d.1850; unmarried)
Wentworth, Mary F. (m. Rev. Wm. H. Porter; 3 children)
Wentworth, Margaret J. (d. 1877;m. David L. Morrill; 4 children).
Wentworth, Abigail C. (d. 1828)
Wentworth, William B. (d. 1848; unmarried)
Wentworth, Samuel H. (1834-; Harvard Law 1858)
Grandparents: Margaret Frost and John Wentworth (d.1787); Lydia Baker (d.1828) and Col. Amos Cogswell.
Great grandparents: Joanna Gilman and Col. John Wentworth (1719-1781); Tamsen Chelsey and Col. Otis Baker.
Great great grandparents: Elizabeth Leighton and Benjamin Wentworth (of Dover; d.1725); Mehitable Waldron and James Chesley.
Great-great-great grandparents: Elizabeth and Ezekiel Wentworth (d. 1711/12).

Spouse:

Loomis, Roxanna Marie (m. 11/13/1844)

Children:

Wentworth, Riley Loomis (1845-6)
Wentworth, Marie Loomis (d. inf. 1847)
Wentworth, John (1849-1852)
Wentworth, Roxanna Atwater (1854-; m. Bowen; dau. Roxana Wentworth Van Rensselaer Vereker)
Wentworth, John Paul (1857-1858)

Notes:

Tag on chairs (1977.34.9.1-.2): "This Chair is one of eight that originally belonged to Hon. John Wentworth, Jr., who was born at Somerswoth, N.H., 17th July, 1745, graduated at Harvard College, 1768, and died at Dover, N.H. 10th January 1787. They then became the property of his son, John, who died single, at Dover, N.H., 28th July, 1819; and he gave them to his father's sister, Abra, second wife of John S. Durell, of Dover, who gave them to her neice, Maria (crossed out and written Clarrissa D) Wentworth, who married her aunt's step-son, John S. Durell, Jr., of Dover.

July 5th, 1865, Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago, sone of Paul, and the eldest living of all the descendants in the male like of the original proprietor of the Chairs, purchased them of Mrs. Maria (crossed out as above) Durell, at Dover, N.H., for the purpose of keeping them in the possession of the descendants in the male line, of his father, who was the only son of Hon. John Wentworth, Jr., who had children."

Attended the inauguration of President Lincoln.