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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wentworth, Tappan 1802- (search)
Wentworth, Tappan 1802- Lawyer; born in Dover, N. H., Sept. 24, 1802; admitted to the bar in 1828. In 1851 he served in the legislature as a Whig, and, later, as a Republican. He was elected to Congress, serving from 1853 to 1855. He (lied in Boston, Mass., June 12, 1895.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 1: introductory and explanatory. (search)
ary to the rules of the Department to furnish copies of such papers. We have therefore been compelled to be content with the returns made by the city and town officers, in 1866, to a committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, of which the Hon. Tappan Wentworth, of Lowell, was chairman. Those returns are neither complete nor entirely accurate, although they approximate to both: one thing is greatly in their favor, they do not exaggerate, nor claim more than they are entitled to; on the contrahusetts for the year 1865. For a more full and detailed account of the men furnished by Massachusetts, see Volume I., page 667, and the reports of the Adjutant-General during the war. By the very able report (House Doc. No. 7), made by Mr. Wentworth to the Legislature in 1867, and to which we have already referred, it is made to appear that the expenses incurred by the several cities and towns for bounties, recruiting, and other expenses growing out of the war, but not including the paym