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��Col. Joseph WentwortJi.

��1833, 1S34. 1839, 1840, and 1841. In 1844 he removed to Concord, N. H., and died August 31, 1855.

Col. Joseph VVoiitworth, the subject of this sketch, is a descendant of no- ble ancestry. No better blood courses through the veins of any man in the (Jranite State. Me took his first Lessons in life among the ha'rdy sons of that mountainous region. He was educated at the Academy at New Hampton in 1835, at Hopkinton in 1836, and South Berwick in 1837. He was a successful merchant thirty years in his native town, not only conducting a general country store and a large farm, but dealing largely in cattle and horses. He was town clerk, selectman, and representa-

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tiyetothe Legislature in 1844 and 1845, delegate from Sandwich in 1850 to the convention called to revise the Consti- tution of the State, and from Concord to the Constitutional Convention in 1876. He was aid to Gov. John Page, with the rank of colonel, and was quar- termaster several ' years ^ \\\ the New Hampshire Horse Guards. He \yas register of deeds for Carroll county two years, high sheriff for same county five years, and for fifteen years was post- master. He was also for many years President and chief owner of Carroll County National Bank. '_'^" ^

Xx^ i3;7.P, he gave the old homestead to his son Paul and removed to Con- cord, where he bought the residence o^ the late President Pierce, on Main Street' and other property adjoining amount- ing to some $26,000, and went into mercantile business for a while, after that, into banking. He was elected two years as assessor of taxes, apd. yvas rep- resentative, to the State Legislature in 1878. He married, May 7, 1845, Sa- rah Payson Jones, of Brookline, Mass. They had^born in Sandwich six children,

��two sons and four daughters, all of whom survive. The two sons, Paul and Moses, were three years at the Academy at Andover, Mass., entered Har\ard College the same day, graduated the same day in 1868, just one hundred years after the graduation of their great grandfather from the same college : ami from their high rank in their class both were assigned a part on graduation day, the records of the college showing no other such case of two brothers. The daughters are Sarah C, wife of W. F. Tha\er, of Concord, Lydia C, wife of George S. Hoyt, of Sandwich, Susan J. wife of Charles W. Woodward, of Con- cord, and Dolly F. Wentworth, who re- sides with her parents.

He was nominated in July, 1886, as a candidate for governor of the State by the prohibition party, and is drawing many voters to the ranks by the moral and religious sentiment he inculcates in his lectures as he canvasses the State. He is a good speaker, of commanding personal appearance, being six feet three inches in height, and of unblem- ished character. He is a man of brains, pluck, and of great activity. He has by industry and sobriety (never having used tobacco or intoxicating drinks in any form) accumulated a plenty of this world's goods, generously disposing of portions of it to his children and to benevolent objects, as they have from time to time favorably come to his no- tice. He possesses executive abilities of the highest order and excellent judg- ment. His opinions upon important matters both private and public are fre- quently sought for. - Weighing, as he doeS; every question in his own even scales of justice, he usually arrives at a correct verdict. ' -c •■'■.:-::.• 'ffii

And last and besl't'f al Tie iG^astrotig" believer in the verities of the Bible,

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