Arthur D. Wentworth Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: WENTWORTH
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 885

ARTHUR D. WENTWORTH, proprietor of the National Hotel,
and also of the Prescott Hotel, at Portsmouth. N. H., was born in

Page 886 

Massachusetts, January 16, 1865, a son of William A. and Orilla A.
(Stickney) Wentworth. Both his parents were natives of this state,
the mother coming from Troy. The father, William A. Wentworth,
was engaged in the hotel business in Portsmouth. They had three
children: Anna B., wife of Alman R. Reed; Nora H., wife of George
W. Armstrong, and Arthur D., subject of this sketch.
  Arthur D. Wentworth acquired his education in the common schools.
He began industrial life as cutter in a shoe factory, but for the last
fifteen years has been in the hotel and restaurant business, for the
last eight years being located in Portsmouth, during all of which time
 he has been propnetor of the Prescott House. He has conducted the
National Hotel for one year only. He belongs to the Masonic order;
also to the Elks and the L. 0. 0. M. Mr. Wentworth married Clara
Lowell of Farmington, N. H., daughter of Nathan and Malissa J. (Rich-
ards) Lowell. He and his wife have two daughters: Clara D., who is
the wife of Fred H. Martin, and Mildred B.

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