BIOGRAPHIES: Franklin M. WOLWORTH, Barron, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Transcribed by Peg Lamkin Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 6 April 2002 ==================================================================== Franklin M. Wolworth was born in New York State, June 6, 1858, son of Hartwell C. and Sarah E. (Tuxbury) Wolworth, who settled on a farm near Tomah, Monroe County, this state, about 1870. He was educated in New York State and in Wisconsin, and as a young man was employed in construction work on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. He also was engaged on the home farm. In the spring of 1888 he went to New Dam, Wis., and in 1890 to Tomahawk, Wis. It was in 1892 that he came to Barron as superintendent of bridge construction work for the "Soo" line. The meat business occupied his attention at Amery, Polk County, from 1896 to 1899, in which latter year he again returned to Barron, and opened a market, which is still carried on by his son. Mr. Wolworth died Jan. 10, 1920, and his loss was sincerely mourned. He was an upright man, a good father, a kindly husband, and a progressive citizen, he occupied an excellent place in the esteem of his fellow men, and achieved success from a material standpoint as well. The comfortable home on Division Street, now occupied by the widow, and the sightly brick block in the business center which he started and his son finished, stand as monuments to his business enterprise and to his faith in the future of Barron County. Fraternally he was a member of the I. O. O. F. and the M. W. A. In politics, while he has decided convictions on public questions, he did not care to mingle actively, preferring to give all his attention to his work and his business. His religious duties were paid at the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Wolworth was married June 28, 1882, to Persis A. Goff, born Jan. 14, 1864, on a farm near Tunnel City, Wis., daughter of Stephen D. and Lucinda I. (Molyneaux) Goff, the former of whom was born May 12, 1825, and died Dec. 5, 1912, and the latter of whom was born Feb. 16, 1836, and died Aug. 15, 1908. Their declining years were spent with Mr. and Mrs. Wolworth, in Barron County. Mrs. Wolworth was the fourth in the family, the others being: Sirena, born August 21, 1856; William H., born Jan. 20, 1860; Lawrence E., born Aug. 27, 1861; Milton L., born April 26, 1865 (deceased); E. Whiting, born April 5, 1867; Cecelia B., born June 17, 1872 (deceased); Stephen T. born Sept. 1, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Wolworth were the parents of three children, Leroy M., Ina S. and Lloyd F. Leroy M. was born May 28, 1883, and succeeded his father in business. Ina S. was born July 1, 1888, was married March 6, 1912, to Roy R. Simpson, of Maple Grove Township, this county, and has two children-- Ida B., born Oct. 29, 1913, and Elsie May, born Oct. 31, 1915. Lloyd F. is taking the mechanical engineering course at the University of Wisconsin. He was born Aug. 9, 1896, entered the United States service in the fall of 1918, and trained at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas. He served first in the infantry, then in the engineering corps and then in the ordnance corps. He was married Aug. 13, 1919, to Grace Mitchell, of Rice Lake, this county. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 112-113.