WADSWORTH, DANIEL
, was born May 15, 1799, in Winthrop, Maine. He was married Dec. 3, 1823, to Margaret F. Goodwin, who was born Oct. 3, 1801, at Freeport, Maine. They had two living children in Maine, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in Auburn Nov. 17, 1840, where they had two living children. Of their four children--EMILY N., born Oct. 3, 1824, in Maine, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 12, 1843, to Jehu Harlan, who was born June 11, 1818, near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They had four children, two of whom died under ten years. EDWARD T. died in 1873, aged twenty-four years. MARGARET H., born August 31, 1851, in Sangamon county, married August 16, 1870, to John H. C. Irwin, who was born in Ballinasloe, Connaught, Ireland, July 1, 1845, and is third son of the late Rev. Canon John Irwin, D. D., who after a long service as clergyman in the Anglican church, and the Protestant Episcopal church in America, died in Canada, Feb. 12, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin have two living children, GERTRUDE H. and GRACE MAYNARD, and reside in Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Irwin is city editor of the Illinois State Journal. Jehu Harlan died Nov. 23, 1851, and Mrs. Emily N. Harlan was married Nov. 13, 1853, to William M. Corzine, who was born March 14, 1834, in Marion county, North Carolina. They have one child, FRANKLIN W., and reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MOSES G., born Feb. 3, 1826, in Hallowel, Maine, married in Sangamon county, Sept. 23, 1847, to Elizabeth F. Wheeler. They had five children, EUGENE W., born July 11, 1848. MARGARET C., born Sept. 1, 1850, married D. H. Tomlinson, and died March 15, 1875, at Butler, DeKalb county, Indiana. FLORA E., born Dec. 5, 1852, married Jerry Ballenger, and resides in Auburn, Illinois. SUSAN E. M., born Jan. 14, 1855, married W. W. Lowry, of Carlinville, Illinois. They have one child, MINNIE, and reside in Auburn, Illinois. JAMES F. D., born April 6, 1857. Mrs. Wadsworth died May 4, 1857. Moses G. Wadsworth was married Nov. 16, 1862, to Mary E. Day. They had six children, two of whom died young. HARRIE E., CHARLES L., MARY F. and ADA C. reside with their parents in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois. M. G. Wadsworth was elected clerk of Auburn township at its organization, and served four years, was township collector four years, has been secretary of Ark and Anchor Masonic Lodge, 354, five years, and is editor and proprietor of the Auburn Citizen, one of the best weekly newspapers in the State.
SARAH A., born Sept. 19, 1841, at Auburn, married March 26, 1861, to John N. Williams, who was born March 1, 1839, in Indiana. They have four children, REMIE A., SARAH A., MAUD B. and CHARLES N., and reside in Auburn, Illinois. Mr. Williams is a merchant in that place.
ABBIE J., resides with her parents in Auburn.
Daniel Wadsworth has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1821. He assisted in organizing the first Masonic Royal Arch Chapter in the State of Illinois, that of Springfield No. 1. He has been a member of the M. E. church since 1822, and was postmaster many years in Auburn. He is now--1876--in his seventy-eighth year.