Elijah Wentworth

1775 - 1863  (88 years)

• Name	Elijah Wentworth  [1, 2]
  Birth	26 Sep 1775	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	25 Sep 1776	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Alternate birth	26 Sep 1776  [6]
  Death	Nov 1863	St. Joseph, Berrien, Michigan   [4, 5]
  Burial	Chicago, Cook, Illinois   [4]
  Person ID	I41852	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Elijah Wentworth,   b. 30 Dec 1744, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. Jul 1810, Canaan, Hancock, Maine (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Capen,   b. 3 Jul 1748, Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 6 Dec 1833 (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	20 Jul 1769	Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F24491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Walker,   b. 20 Oct 1773, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 22 Jul 1849, Chicago, Cook, Illinois (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	Between 1798 and 1799  [4, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Zebiah Walker Wentworth,   b. 19 Apr 1810, Maine d. 2 Jul 1887, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F24489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  "In 1813 he moved from Duck Trap, Me., to Kentucky, and thence to Illinois in 1817, taking his whole family with him. He removed from Dodgeville, Wis., to Chicago, in 1830, opened a hotel there in 1831, and remained there until after the Black Hawk war; thence he removed eight miles out, near where Jefferson Station on the Northwestern Railroad now is, where he resided when the author of this work arrived at Chicago, 25 October 1836. His wife died at Chicago, 22 July 1849. He died at St. Joseph, Mich., November 1863, at the house of his daughter Susan, and his body was taken to Chicago for burial." [The Wentworth Genealogy, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S8050] Wisconsin, Death Records, 1867-1907, on familysearch.org. [S8051] Estes Genealogies 1097-1893 by Charles Estes. Salem, Massachusetts: Eben Putnam, 1894. [S3673] Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, on familysearch.org. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878. [S8087] Maine Families in 1790, Volume 2, ed. Ruth Gray. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990. [S8063] The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. by Charles Albert Hayden. Minneapolis, 1929. [S170] The Wentworth Genealogy, English and American by John Wentworth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1878., date only.