John Alexander Wentworth Jr. (1920 - 2006)

Born 7 Aug 1920 in Clifton Springs, Ontario, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Elizabeth (Randall) Wentworth — married 6 Feb 1943 in Maine, United States

Died 12 Jun 2006 at age 85 in Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

John Alexander Wentworth, Jr. ’43 died on June 12, 2006, in Bloomfield, CT. Born on August 7, 1920, in Clifton Springs, NY, he prepared for college at the Kingswood School in West Hartford, CT, and became a member of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Bowdoin. Following his graduation in January of 1943 he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as the pilot of a B-29 plane during World War II, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. After two years as an underwriter with the Travelers Insurance Company in Hartford, CT, he became a production superintendent with the Mattatuck Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, CT. In 1955 he became an assistant factory manager with the Wallace Barnes Division of the Associated Spring Corporation in Bristol, CT, and in 1957 he became general manager of that company’s Ohio Division in Dayton. In 1966 he returned to Bristol as regional general manager of Associated Spring Corporation, which became the Barnes Group, Inc., and from which he retired in 1980. He was a director of the Spring Manufacturer Institute from 1973 to 1975 and while in Dayton, Ohio, was the director of the Social Health Association and a director of the YMCA in Oakwood, Ohio, from 1963 to 1965. Surviving are his wife, Nancy Randall Wentworth, whom he married in 1943; three sons, Jeffrey R. Wentworth, Stephen T.Wentworth, and Mark A.Wentworth; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Obituary Notice from Bowdoin Magazine

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XMPY-RB6 : 8 December 2015), John A Wentworth Jr. in entry for John A Wentworth, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, 1930.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K716-5GK : accessed 26 October 2016), John Wentworth in household of John Wentworth, West Hartford Town, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2-242, sheet 6A, family 95, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 508.

• "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KMXQ-JP5 : 5 December 2014), John A Wentworth, enlisted 01 Jul 1942, ; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KCJS-YJP : 27 November 2014), John A Wentworth Jr and Nancy E Randall, 06 Feb 1943; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JGFN-56R : 19 May 2014), JOHN A WENTWORTH, 12 Jun 2006; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• Obituary Notice for John Alexander Wentworth, Class of '43, Bowdoin Magazine Obituaries, https://obituaries.bowdoin.edu/john-alexander-wentworth-jr-43/

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QK71-6QYX : 21 July 2016), John A Wentworth in entry for Nancy Wentworth, Connecticut, United States, 07 Sep 2008; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Hartford Courant, The, born-digital text.