Later he spent a year and a half in Pennsylvania, and on the expiration of that period went to Alpena, Michigan, where he resided for three years. In Pennsylvania and in Michigan he was employed in the lumber woods during the winter months, after which he returned to Maine, where he again lived for a year.
The fall of 1876 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Wentworth in Iowa, at which time he took up his abode in Jones county, living there until the spring of 1878, when he went to Boone county. In February, 1895, he came to his present home near the corporation limits of Ames, his farm Iying west of the city. In addition to the home where he now resides, he has one hundred and twenty-one acres of rich farm land and from the place derives a substantial income. He is practically living retired, however, leaving the active work of the farm to others.
On the 2d of March, 1877, in Clinton, Iowa, Mr. Wentworth was married to Miss Emma C. Chapin, who was born in Monson, Maine, on the 12th of October, 1845, and there resided until the spring of 1877, when she came to Clinton, Iowa. Her parents were Aretus and Mary (Whiting) Chapin, natives of Monson, Maine, and reared in that state, where they spent their entire lives. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth had but one child, Atlee O., who died at the age of three months.
Mr. Wentworth belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and is as true and loyal in matters of citizenship today as he was when he followed the old flag in defending the Union cause on the battlefields of the south. His life has been quietly passed, yet at all times his career has been marked by usefulness and activity in his business affairs. Moreover, he has ever been reliable in his business transactions and his many substantial qualities have won for him recognition as a worthy and representative citizen of his adopted county.
JOHN Osborn.
Among the residents of Story county who have now passed away, there were none more highly esteemed and respected than John Osborn, who was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on the 28th of December, 1846. His life up to the age of eighteen years was like that of the majority of the boys of fifty years ago who were reared on the farm. He attended school when his services were not required at home and enjoyed such diversions as fell to the lot of the young people of that period.
At eighteen years of age he enlisted in the Union army and spent eleven months of his early manhood in the service of his country on the battlefields of the south. There, as elsewhere throughout his life, he discharged every duty assigned him to the best of his ability. That he was faithful in service, brave in the face of danger and reliable at all times is fully attested by the honorable discharge accorded him at the end of his period of enlistment.