Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Wadsworth, Joel November 5, 1800 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Wadsworth, Joel, Winfield, was born in New Hartford, Oneida county, November 
5, 1800.  He was a son of Timothy, a native of Connecticut, one of the first 
settlers of Oneida county; who when he came to this locality found but two or 
three small houses.  He settled in the eastern part of the town of New 
Hartford, where he died November 15, 1847.  Lydia, his wife, died June 11, 
1848.  Joel Wadsworth settled in Winfield about1833 and has lived in this town 
ever since.  He has been strictly a temperence man all this time.  He belongs 
to the First M.E. Church of West Winfield.  His father had six sons and six 
daughters.  They were all members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  There 
are but three of them living:  Joel, Nancy, and Maria.  Mr. Wadsworth attends 
the M.E. church, having been a member since 1825, and is a very active worker. 
Joel Wadsworth married first, Sarah Goodier, who died January 22, 1861.  She 
was the mother of four children:  Hester Ann, who married Albert Crumb; George 
H., who married Henrietta Stout; Emily H., who married Alvin Day, and Lizzie 
H., who married Dr. Orrin Wilcox.  He married second, Roxey (Beals) Dunham, 
who died March 6, 1883.  His third wife was Lucretia Peck, the widow of 
Alexander Dewey.  She was married to Mr.Wadsworth April 17, 1884.


Additional Comments:
source --
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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