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Although he went by the name Wentworth, his is given name was Hugh. He was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, educated at the public schools and St. Mark’s school in Southboro, and graduated from Racine College. He then worked for his father, manager of A.T Stewart & Co., Chicago. After the company went out of business he managed his father’s mine in Tomichi, Gunnison, Colorado for 1 year. He returned to Chicago the next year, working for Garner & Co. for 10 years. He resigned from that position to go into S.G. & W.G. Field, a dry goods commission business with his father, Samuel. In 1897 he left that business to work as western agent for Lawrence & Co., a large dry goods commission house in New York.
Source: Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose Ancestors Were in This Country Prior to 1700, Volume II, Frederick Clifton Pierce, W. B. Conkey, Chicago, 1901
Contributor: J.K.H. (48186634)
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Although he went by the name Wentworth, his is given name was Hugh. He was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, educated at the public schools and St. Mark’s school in Southboro, and graduated from Racine College. He then worked for his father, manager of A.T Stewart & Co., Chicago. After the company went out of business he managed his father’s mine in Tomichi, Gunnison, Colorado for 1 year. He returned to Chicago the next year, working for Garner & Co. for 10 years. He resigned from that position to go into S.G. & W.G. Field, a dry goods commission business with his father, Samuel. In 1897 he left that business to work as western agent for Lawrence & Co., a large dry goods commission house in New York.
Source: Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America, Whose Ancestors Were in This Country Prior to 1700, Volume II, Frederick Clifton Pierce, W. B. Conkey, Chicago, 1901
Contributor: J.K.H. (48186634)
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