By Muriel Bristol | October 26, 2025
Joseph Cook Wentworth was born in Milton, September 24, 1801, son of Ichabod and Kezia (Cook) Wentworth.
Joseph C. Wentworth married in New Durham, NH, May 22, 1825, Tryphena Burnham Roberts, he of Milton and she of Farmington, NH. Rev. Joseph Boodey performed the ceremony. She was born in Farmington, NH, April 8, 1802, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth “Betty” (Dame) Roberts.
(The known children of Joseph C. and Tryphena B. (Roberts) Wentworth were: Leah Hayes Wentworth (1826-1848), George Washington Wentworth (1827–1884), Joseph Henry Wentworth (1829–1831), Susan E. Wentworth (1832-1929), Abigail Amanda Wentworth (1834–1912), and Augusta Adeline Wentworth (1834–1873)).
Daughter Leah Hayes Wentworth was born in Milton, June 27, 1826. Son George Washington Wentworth was born in Milton, December 22, 1827.
Son Joseph Henry Wentworth was born in Milton, November 22, 1829. He died August 17, 1831.
Jos. C. Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 20-29 years [himself], one female aged 20-29 years [Tryphena (Roberts) Wentworth], one female aged under-5 years [Leah H. Wentworth], two males aged under-5 years [George W. Wentworth, and Joseph H. Wentworth], and one female aged 10-14 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Eph. Wentworth and Richd Plummer.
Daughter Susan E. Wentworth was born in Milton, June 13, 1832.
Mother Kezia (Cook) Wentworth died in Milton, April 4, 1833, aged seventy years.
Died. In Milton, April 4th inst., Kezia, wife of Ichabod Wentworth, aged 70 years. She was in apparent good health at 9 o’clock and before 10 she expired. Printers in Maine and Mass., are requested to notice the above (Dover Enquirer, April 16, 1833; Kennebec Journal (Augusta, ME), April 24, 1833).
Father Ichabod Wentworth died in Milton, April 16, 1834.
Daughter Abigail Amanda Wentworth was born in Milton, November 8, 1834. Daughter Augusta Adeline Wentworth was born in Milton, November 8, 1834.
Joseph C. Wentworth was Quartermaster of the 39th NH Militia Infantry Regiment in 1837. Noah Place [of Rochester, NH,] was its Colonel, Daniel Pearl [of Farmington, NH,] was its Lt. Colonel, Jeremiah Roberts [of Farmington, NH,] was its Major, and Charles T. Meserve [of Rochester, NH,] was its Adjutant (Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1837).
Joseph C. Wentworth headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 30-39 years [himself], one female aged 30-39 years [Tryphena (Roberts) Wentworth], one female aged 10-14 years [Leah H. Wentworth], one male aged 10-14 years [George W. Wentworth], and three females aged 5-9 years [Susan E. Wentworth, Abigail A. Wentworth, and Augusta A. Wentworth]. Two members of his household were engaged in Manufacture & Trades. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Hannah Varney and Asa M. Durrell. (See Milton Occupations – 1840).
Father-in-law Joseph Roberts died in Farmington, NH, January 15, 1841. Mother-in-law Elizabeth (Dame) Roberts died in Farmington, April 15, 1841.
Died. In Farmington, April 15th, Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, aged 76, widow of the late Mr. Joseph Roberts (Dover Enquirer, June 8, 1841).
Daughter Leah H. Wentworth married, probably in West Milton, September 14, 1844, John E. Goodwin. He was born in Middleton, NH, September 14, 1820, son of Deacon Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin. (Joseph and Anna Goodwin would be in 1827 two of the ten founding members of Milton’s Christian Church, in which Joseph Goodwin would be a deacon).
Daughter Leah H. (Wentworth) Goodwin died in Milton, September 22, 1848, aged twenty-two years, eight months, and thirteen days.
DEATHS. In Milton, Sept. 20th, Mrs. Leah H., wife of Mr. John E. Goodwin, and daughter of Mr. Joseph C. Wentworth, aged 22 years, 8 months and 13 days (Dover Enquirer, September 26, 1848).
Son George W. Wentworth married, in 1849, Rebecca Twombly. She was born in Middleton, NH, June 26, 1830, daughter of Samuel and Sophia D. (Fish) Twombly.
Widowed son-in-law John E. Goodwin married (2nd), March 11, 1849, Eliza A. Hayes. She was born in Milton, July 23, 1825, daughter of Ichabod and Sarah “Sally” (Card) Hayes.
Daughter Susan E. Wentworth married in Milton, September 8, 1849, Charles H. Goodwin, both of Milton. Rev. J.T. Colby performed the ceremony. He was a son of Deacon Joseph and Anna (Hanson) Goodwin (and brother of John E. Goodwin).
MARRIAGES. In Milton, Sept. 9th, by Eld. J.T.G. Colby, Mr. Charles H. Goodwin to Miss Susan E. Wentworth (Dover Enquirer, October 23, 1849).
Joseph C. Wentworth, a farmer, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Triphine [(Roberts)] Wentworth, aged forty-eight years (b. NH), George W. Wentworth, a shoemaker, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), Rebecca [(Twombly)] Wentworth, aged twenty-one years (b. NH), Adaline A. Wentworth, aged sixteen years (b. NH), Abigail Wentworth, aged sixteen years (b. NH), James C.S. Hodgdon, a shoemaker, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Joseph P. Horn, a shoemaker, aged fifteen years (b. NH). Joseph C. Wentworth had real estate valued at $2,500. George W. Wentworth had real estate valued at $376. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Sanborn, a wheelwright, aged fifty-five years (b. ME), and Richard Plumer, a farmer, aged fifty-seven years (b. NH).
John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Hayes)] Goodwin, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), Joseph H. Goodwin, aged three years (b. NH), and Leah H. Goodwin, aged two years (b. NH). John E. Goodwin had real estate valued at $3,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles H. Goodwin, a trader, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Shepherd Goodwin, a shoemaker, aged twenty-seven years (b. NH).
Joseph C. Wentworth of Milton was selected as a petit juror for January term of the Strafford Court of Common Pleas, (Dover Enquirer, January 28, 1851).
Daughter Abigail A. Wentworth married in Milton, November 10, 1853, Brackett W. Clark, she of Milton and he of Wolfeborough, NH. He was born in Milton, June 19, 1829, son of Enoch M. and Sarah P. (Hayes) Clark.
Daughter August A. Wentworth married in Milton, November 10, 1853, John Colbath. He was born in Barnstead, NH, December 26, 1828.
MARRIAGES. In Milton, Nov. 10th, by Eld. J.T.G. Colby, Mr. John Colbath of Barnstead, to Miss Augusta A. Wentworth of Milton (Dover Enquirer, November 22, 1853).
The Milton Selectmen of 1855 were Jos. Sayward, Lewis Plummer, and J.C. Wentworth.
TOWN OFFICERS. Milton – Ezra K. Twombly, Town Clerk; Joseph Sayward, Lewis Plumer, Joseph C. Wentworth, Selectmen (Dover Enquirer, March 22, 1855).
The Milton Selectmen of 1856 were Jos. Sayward, J.C. Wentworth, and D. Wallingford, Jr.
TOWN OFFICERS. Milton – Joseph Mathes, Town Clerk; Joseph Sayward, Joseph C. Wentworth, David Wallingford, jr., Selectmen (Dover Enquirer, March 27, 1856).
Joseph C. Wentworth, a farmer, aged fifty-nine years (b. NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Tryphena [(Roberts)] Wentworth, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH). Joseph C. Wentworth had real estate valued at $3,000 and personal estate valued at $1,000. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of James Sanborn, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. ME), and Richard Plumer, Jr., a farmer, aged thirty-four years (b. NH).
John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty years (b. NH), headed a Milton (“West Milton P.O.”) household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Eliza [(Hayes)] Goodwin, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), J.H. [Joseph H.] Goodwin, aged fourteen years (b. NH), L.H. [Leah H.] Goodwin, aged twelve years (b. NH), L.M. [Laura M.] Goodwin, aged nine years (b. NH), A.B. [Alice E.] Goodwin, aged seven years (b. NH), and J.F. [John F.] Goodwin, aged three years (b. NH). John E. Goodwin had real estate valued at $7,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000. His household appeared in the enumeration between those of George F. Nute, a shoe cutter, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), and his brother, Daniel B. Goodwin, a farmer, aged forty-nine years (b. NH).
George Wentworth, a boot & shoe maker, aged thirty-two years (b. NH), headed a St. Louis, MO, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Rebecca [(Twombly)] Wentworth, aged thirty-one years (b. NH), Wilber Wentworth, aged eight years (b. MA), Nelly Wentworth, aged three years (b. MA), and Helen Murphy, a servant, aged ten years (b. Ireland). George Wentworth had real estate valued at $10,000 and personal estate valued at $5,000. They shared a two-family residence with the household of Jane Hodgdon, a clerk, aged twenty-six years (b. NH).
C.H. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged thirty-five years (b, NH), headed a Milton household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Susan E. [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged twenty-five years (b. NH), and Abba A. Goodwin, aged six years (b. NH). C.H. Goodwin had real estate valued at $1,500 and personal estate valued at $600. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George W. Goodwin, a merchant, aged forty-two years (b. NH), and an unoccupied building, with Isaac Hayes, a farmer, aged seventy-three years (b. NH), just beyond.
Bracket W. Clark, a shoe cutter, aged thirty years (b. NH), headed a Farmington, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Abby A. [(Wentworth)] Clark, aged twenty-four [twenty-six] years (b. NH), William B. Clark, aged five years (b. NH), and Cara F. Clark, aged four years (b. NH). Bracket W. Clark had real estate valued at $1,600 and personal estate valued at $200.
John Colbath, a shoemaker, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Somersworth, NH, household at the time of the Eighth (1860) Federal Census. His household included Augusta [(Wentworth)] Colbath, aged thirty [twenty-six] years (b. NH), and <blank> Plummer, a shoemaker, aged twenty-five years (b. Unknown). John Colbath had personal estate valued at $100.
Eliza A. (Hayes) Goodwin died in Milton, October 15, 1861, aged thirty-six years.
DEATHS. In West Milton, Oct. 15, Eliza Hayes, wife of John E. Goodwin, Esq., aged 36 years (Dover Enquirer, October 17, 1861).
Widowed son-in-law John E. Goodwin married (3rd) in Concord, NH, May 7, 1862, Pamelia N. (Davis) Pinkham, he of Milton, and she of Concord, NH. He was a shoemaker, aged forty-one years, and she was aged thirty-three years. Rev. E.E. Cummings performed the ceremony.
Joseph C. Wentworth died of lung fever in Milton, February 26, 1863, aged sixty-one years, five months.
State of New Hampshire. STRAFFORD, SS. The Judge of Probate for said County to the heirs at law of the estate of Joseph C. Wentworth, late of Milton, in said County, deceased, intestate, and to all interested therein. YOU are hereby notified that Tryphena B. Wentworth, administratrix of the estate of said deceased, will exhibit her account of the administration thereof, at a Court of Probate to be holden at Farmington in said county on the first Tuesday of Sept. next, when and where you may appear and shew cause, if any you have, against the allowance of said account. And it is ordered that the said Administratrix give notice, by causing the foregoing citation and this order thereon, to be published three weeks successively in the Dover Enquirer, printed at Dover, in said County, the last publication whereof to be at lease [least] thirty days before said Court. Given at Dover, in said County, this 5th day of May, A.D. 1864. ASA FREEMAN, Register. 1 (Dover Enquirer, June 2, 1864).
Son-in-law Brackett W. Clark died in Farmington, NH, May 2, 1865.
FATAL ACCIDENT. Mr. Brackett W. Clark, of Farmington, was suddenly killed on Tuesday, in J.W. Waldron’s mill in that town, by falling onto the machinery, or by being caught in it, while oiling. He leaves a widow and three children (Dover Enquirer, [Thursday,] May 4, 1865).
Daughter-in-law Rebecca (Twombly) Wentworth died in Haverhill, MA, January 28, 1868.
Son George W. Wentworth married (2nd) in Middleton, NH, June 3, 1869, Eliza A. Twombly, he of Haverhill, MA, and she of Middleton, NH. He was a lumber dealer, aged forty-one years, and she was aged twenty-nine years. Rev. Seth Swayer performed the ceremony. She was born in Middleton, NH, in 1840, daughter of Samuel and Lydia E. “Eliza” (York) Twombly.
John E. Goodwin, a shoe manufacturer, aged forty-seven years, headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Pamelia [((Davis) Pinkham)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged forty-two years (b. NH), Henry Goodwin, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-four years (b. NH), Alice Goodwin, attending school, aged seventeen years (b. NH), Fremont Goodwin, attending school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), Erie Pinkham, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-two years (b. NH), and Lovey Ricker, teaching school, aged twenty-eight years (b. NH).
George Wentworth, no employment, aged forty-two years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Elisa [(Twombly)] Wentworth, keeps house, aged thirty years (b. NH), Nellie Wentworth, attends school, aged thirteen years (b. MA), and Wilbert Wentworth, no employment, aged eighteen years (b. MA).
Charles Goodwin, a wholesale shoe store salesman, aged forty-five years (b. NH), headed a Boston, MA. household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Susan [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged thirty-eight years (b. NH), Abbie A. Goodwin, at school, aged sixteen years (b. NH), and Tryphonia [(Burnham)] Wentworth, at home, aged sixty-eight years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Josiah Vinton, a drill-maker, aged forty-six years (b. ME).
Abbie A. [(Wentworth)] Clark, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-five years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. Her household included Willie B. Clark, attending school, aged fourteen years (b. NH), Cora F. Clark, attending school, aged thirteen years (b. NH), George W. Wingate, works in shoe factory, aged forty-one years (b. NH), and Charles Merrifield, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-three years (b. NH). Their household appeared next in the enumeration to that of [brother-in-law] John Colbath, works in shoe factory, aged forty-one years (b. NH).
John Colbath, works in shoe factory, aged forty-one years (b. NH), headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Ninth (1870) Federal Census. His household included Augusta A. [(Wentworth)] Colbath, keeping house, aged thirty-five years (b. NH). John Colbath had real estate valued at $400. Their household appeared next in the enumeration to that of [sister-in-law] Abbie A. Clark, works in shoe factory, aged thirty-five years (b. NH).
Daughter Augusta A. (Wentworth) Colbath died in Dover, NH, February 2, 1873.
DEATHS. In this city, Feb. 2, Augusta A., wife of John Colbath, aged 38 years (Dover Enquirer, February 8, 1873).
Son-in-law John E. Goodwin tried to set up a factory in Milwaukee, WI, but then changed his mind.
Well, we have a bit of news from way out west. Brother John E. Goodwin has sort of broken up business in Milwaukee, owing to a little unpleasantness which arose between him and the lager beer Dutchmen in an round about the Shoe factory. Somehow these Dutchmen didn’t take to John and John didn’t take to them. It was an untaking time all round, which caused disagreeable feelings to arise in Bro. Goodwin’s heaving bosom and he concluded to “pull up stakes” and leave those Dutchmen alone in their glory. And then it came to pass that Bro. Goodwin had some machinery, pegging machines, &c., inside that factory that he wanted to get out. And then these obstreperous stuck their noses into his business again and wouldn’t let him go in to take his things out unless they went with him to see that John acted with perfect Christian honesty and decorum and didn’t put his hands on anything to which he had no lawful claim. But John overcame these meddlesome boobies at last, and his machines are safely out of reach of all such avaricious “cusses.”
But Bro. Goodwin and all those fine fellows who went on this Western speculation with him, are out of business just now, and are waiting, like old Micawber, for something to turn up. One of them, Mr. Wentworth, has arrived safely back to the bosom of old Dover, and the rest are expected by and by. This is a changing world. Even a man’s religious principles are not absolutely a permanent fixture. We are told that Bro. Goodwin was a devout Freewill Baptist when he bade farewell to his old home here on the Cocheco. But through some mysterious influence he became metamorphosed into a first rate Methodist after reaching the broad prairies of the West. This is nothing whatever against him, because any of our fellow mortals has the right to be a Methodist or anything else he likes. – Change rather indicates a capacity in one to overcome one’s prejudices. Now our advice to Bro. Goodwin is that he return straightway and dwell amongst us again. We will kill the fatted calf and then “let us eat and be merry”(Dover Enquirer, December 23, 1873).
John E. Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged fifty-eight years (b. NH), headed a North Brookfield, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Pamelia N. [((Davis) Pinkham)] Goodwin, keeping house, aged fifty-one years (b. NH), his son, John F. Goodwin, works in shoe factory, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and his daughter-in-law, V. Belle [(Sanborn)] Goodwin, at home, aged eighteen years (b. NH).
Geo W. Wentworth, a trader, aged fifty-two years (b. NH), headed a Haverhill, MA, household at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Eliza A. Wentworth, a housekeeper, aged forty-two years (b. NH), his children, Wilbert G. Wentworth, an engineer, aged twenty-seven years (b. MA), and Nellie K. Wentworth, keeps house, aged twenty-one years (b. MA), his brother-in-law, Eri P. Twombly, a leather cutter, aged thirty years (b. NH), Fred Batchelder, a bookkeeper, aged twenty-five years (b. MA), Fred Peverly, a shoemaker, aged twenty-three years (b. NH), and Maggie Norton, a shoe stitcher, aged twenty-eight years (b. MA). They resided at 89 Emerson Street.
Chas. H. Goodwin, a commercial traveler, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and his wife, Susan E. [(Wentworth)], aged forty-six years (b. NH), were two of the ten boarders in the Somerville, MA, household of Nathaniel Millikin, a R.R. freight clerk, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census.
Abbie A. [(Wentworth)] Clark, a tailoress, aged forty-four years (b. NH), boarded in a Dover, NH, house with Helen P. Robinson, keeps boarders, aged forty-five years (b. NH), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Mrs. Robinson had four boarders in her house at 20 Orchard Street.
John Colbath, works in shoe manufactory, aged fifty years (b. NH), boarded in a Dover, NH, house with Jacob M. Willey, works in shoe manufactory, aged forty-seven years (b. NH), at the time of the Tenth (1880) Federal Census. Mr. Willey resided on Second Street.
Tryphena B. (Roberts) Wentworth died of heart disease in Haverhill, MA, July 17, 1882, aged eighty years.
DEATHS. In Somerville, Mass. July 17, Triphina, widow of Joseph Wentworth, formerly a resident of Milton, aged 80 yrs. (Farmington News, July 21, 1882).
Son George W. Wentworth died in Haverhill, MA, April 20, 1884, aged fifty-six years.
Death of a Well-Known Manufacturer. George W. Wentworth, a prominent business man and extensive shoe-box manufacturer in Haverhill, died Sunday night at the age of 56. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1877, and a veteran Odd Fellow. He leaves a widow, son and daughter (Lynn Item (Lynn, MA).
Daughter Abigail A. ((Wentworth) Clark) married (2nd) in Malden, MA, November 5, 1889, Mark Harden, she of Somerville, MA, and he of Malden, MA. She was a dressmaker, aged forty-eight years, and he was a clerk, aged forty-seven years. He was born in Williamston, VT, circa 1842, son of Isaac F. and Siloma F. Harden.
MALDEN. A very interesting event at the residence of Mrs. Charles H. Goodwin, on Tuesday evening, was the marriage of Mrs. Abbie A. Clark of Somerville to Mark Harden, formerly of Augusta, Me. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W.P. Odell. The couple were the recipients of some very handsome presents. Mr. Harden, who was recently in the employ of the Internal Revenue Department of the government, now holds a responsible position with Bradstreet’s mercantile agency at St. Louis, in which city he and his bride will reside (Boston Globe, November 7, 1889).
Son-in-law John E. Goodwin died of heart disease in Malden, MA, May 29, 1893, aged seventy-two years, eight months, and seventeen days. He had been a shoe manufacturer.
Daughter-in-law Eliza A. (Twombly) Wentworth died in Middleton, NH, February 4, 1896.
MIDDLETON. The sad news of the death of Mrs. Eliza A. Wentworth, widow of the late Geo. Wentworth of Haverhill, Mass , on Tuesday the 4th, was a severe shock to the citizens of this town, as she was a lady whom everyone respected and loved for her excellent virtues and moral worth as well as for her philanthropic and kind disposition. Her health has been gradually failing for a number of years and she has been in the habit of visiting at the home of her brother, Eri P. Twombly of this town, and frequently made that her home during the hottest part of the summer, returning to her home in Haverhill to spend the winter. Her husband died a few years ago leaving leaving her in competent circumstances financially. She was the daughter of the late Samuel Twombly and leaves two brothers, Eri P. and William H. She possessed a good education and although she was not a professor of religion to our knowledge, her high moral virtues and kindred accomplishments made her an exemplary lady in the superlative degree. She was about 60 years or age. Her friends and relatives have the sympathy of the entire community. The funeral took place at the house of her brother Eri on Friday, Feb 7 (Farmington News, February 14, 1896).
Frederick G. Nickerson, a R.R. auditor, aged forty-four years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of twenty-one years), Abbie A. [(Goodwin)] Nickerson, a music teacher, aged forty-six years (b. NH), his daughter, Florence A. Nickerson, aged twenty years (b. MA), his boarders, Charles H. Goodwin, insurance, aged seventy-five years (b. MA [SIC]), [his wife of fifty years,] Susan E. [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged sixty-six years (b. MA [SIC]), and his servant, Katie Waldron, aged twenty-four years (b. Ireland). Frederick G. Nickerson rented their house at 29 Spring Street. Abbie A. Nickerson and Susan E. Wentworth were each the mother of one child, each of whom was still living.
Mark Harden, a reporter, aged fifty-seven years (b. VT), and his wife (of ten years), Abbie [((Wentworth) Clark)] Harden, a seamstress, aged sixty-four years (b. NH), were lodgers in the Boston, MA, household of Florence A. Russell, a housekeeper, aged forty-four years (b. ME), at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. Florence A. Russell rented their house at 36 Harvard Street, in which she had eleven lodgers and one boarder.
Horace N. Colbath, a farmer, aged sixty-five years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Twelfth (1900) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of forty years), Lucinda I. Colbath, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), his daughter, Helen M. [(Colbath)] Morrison, aged thirty-six years (b. NH), his son-in-law (of sixteen years), Charles H. Morrison, a farm laborer, aged forty-three years (b. NH), his granddaughter, Grace H. Morrison, aged twelve years (b. NH), and his brother, John Colbath, a farm laborer, aged seventy-one years (b. NH). Horace N. Colbath owned their farm, free-and-clear. Lucinda I. Colbath was the mother of three children, of whom one was still living. Helen M. Morrison was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Son-in-law Charles H. Goodwin died of old age in Malden, MA, May 25, 1904, aged seventy-nine years, eight months, and fourteen days. He had been a retired merchant.
Frederick O. Nickerson, an accountant (B&M Railroad), aged fifty-five years (b. MA), headed a Malden, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910 Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-three years), Abbie [(Goodwin)] Nickerson, aged fifty-six years (b. NH), and his mother-in-law, Susan E. [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged seventy-six years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Edward S. King, an adjuster lawyer (life insurance co.), aged thirty-five years (b. MA), and his wife, Florence A. [(Nickerson)] King, aged thirty years (b. MA). Frederick O. Nickerson and Edward S. King both rented their house at 25 Garland Avenue. Abbie Nickerson was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. Susan E. Goodwin was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living.
Edwin H. Harnden, a bookkeeper (manufacturing), aged sixty-two years, headed a Cambridge, MA, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. His household included his wife (of thirty-seven years), Josephine J. [(Gerry)] Harnden, aged sixty years (b. MA), and his lodger, Abbie A. ((Wentworth) Clark) Harden, a seamstress (tailoring), aged seventy-five years (b. NH). They shared a two-family residence with the household of Alfred N. Harden, a carpenter, aged thirty-five years (b. MA). They both rented their portions of a house at 190 Elm Street. Josephine J. Harden was the mother of one child, of whom one was still living. Abbie A. Harden was the mother of three children, of whom two were still living,
John Colbath, own income, aged eighty-one years (b. NH), headed a Barnstead, NH, household at the time of the Thirteenth (1910) Federal Census. He shared a two-family residence with the household of Horace N. Colbath, own income (invalid), aged seventy-five years (b. NH). They both owned their farm, free-and-clear.
Daughter Abigail A. ((Wentworth) Clark) Harden died of chronic interstitial nephritis at 71 Irving Street in Somerville, MA, March 6, 1912, aged seventy-six years, four months, and two days. Charles H. Thomas, M.D. signed the death certificate.
DEATHS. HARDEN – In Somerville, March 6, Abbie A., widow of Mark Harden, 76. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lemont P. Hatch, 43 Davenport st., North Cambridge, Friday, March 2:30 p.m. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Farmington and Dover, N.H., papers please copy (Boston Globe, March 7, 1912).
Son-in-law John Colbath died in Barnstead, NH, April 7, 1915.
In Memoriam. John Colbath. John Colbath, a prominent citizen of Barnstead, was stricken with apoplexy April 5 and died the day following. He remained unconscious till death. Mr Colbath was born December 26, 1828, on the farm where he died. In 1847 he went to West Milton and entered the employ of John E. Goodwin to learn the shoe business. In 1853 he became a partner in the firm of G.W. Wentworth and company, shoe manufacturers, keeping, as was then customary, a grocery store. He was appointed postmaster and so remained until the business part of the village was swept by fire, which destroyed their shoe factory and store and the Goodwin factory and store. Afterwards he entered the employ of Oliver Hill at Great Falls where he remained until 1858 when he became foreman of the Alex Strong shoe firm at Dover. He remained there 13 years. He was a member of the city council and in 1876 was elected a representative from Ward 2, then a strong Republican ward. His wife having died, he came to Farmington and entered the employ of John F. Cloutman. In 1890 he returned to Barnstead and since had been living with bis brother, Horace N. Colbath, at the old homestead, which has been in the family 125 years. By industry and frugality he acquired a competency which for these years he enjoyed. He was the oldest member of the North Barnstead Congregational church and was a member of Fraternal Lodge, No. 71, A.F.&A.M., of Farmington. The funeral took place Saturday, April 10. Rev. J.A. Pogue, former pastor of North Barnstead church, now of Boston, spoke. Burial was here in Farmington (Farmington News, April 23, 1915).
Sarah [Susan E.] [(Wentworth)] Goodwin, aged eighty-three [eighty-eight] years (b. NH), was a lodger in the Malden, MA, household of Varia Penney, a nurse (private hospital), aged fifty-four years (b. MA), at the time of the Fourteenth (1920) Federal Census. Viola Penney had six lodgers in her rented house at 10 Arthur Street.
Daughter Susan E. (Wentworth) Goodwin died in Malden, MA, April 22, 1929, aged ninety-six years.
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Claremont Manufacturing Co. (1837). NH Annual Register. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=3wEXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66
Find a Grave. (2022, November 23). Abigail Amanda Wentworth Clark. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/245884008/abigail_amanda-clark
Find a Grave. (2017, June 19). Augusta Adeline [Wentworth] Colbath. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/180530108/augusta_adeline-colbath
Find a Grave. (2008, August 25). Leah Hayes Wentworth Goodwin. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/29302943/leah-hayes-goodwin
Find a Grave. (2020, January 5). Susan E. [Wentworth] Goodwin. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/205974079/susan-e-goodwin
Find a Grave. (2013, October 6). George Washington Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/118276120/george-washington-wentworth
Find a Grave. (2017, June 19). Joseph C. Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/180532486/joseph-c-wentworth
Find a Grave. (2017, June 19). Joseph Henry Wentworth. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/180532910/joseph_henry-wentworth
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