Elias Woodworth Jr.

Helen M. Van Wie

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(m. 1848)​

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Elias Woodworth Jr.
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Racine 5th district
In office June 5, 1848 –January 1, 1849
Children	Jane Diadamia (Carpenter) (b. 1849) Frank Day Woodworth (b. 1854) Lydia Christian (Fowler) (b. 1857) Frederick E. Woodworth (b. 1861) Helen E. Woodworth (b. 1862) Esther Woodworth (b. 1863) William E. Woodworth (b. 1866)

Elias Woodworth, Jr., (born May 13, 1819) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly during the first session (1848). ^[2] He was a Democrat.

Woodworth's father, also named Elias Woodworth, was born in Cayuga County, New York, and was a pioneer settler of Salem, Wisconsin. ^[3] The Woodworths are direct descendants of Walter Woodworth, one of the original Plymouth Colony settlers. ^[4]

Elias, Jr., married Helen Van Wie and had at least seven children. Sometime after his term in the Assembly, he and his family relocated to Medford, Minnesota. ^[4]

References

1. Burhams Jr., Samuel (1894). Burhans Genealogy: Descendants from the First Ancestor in America. New York City. pp.  201 . Retrieved August 9, 2021.
2. State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine ". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999), p. 124.
3. Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. 1906. p.  591 . Retrieved August 9, 2021.
4. Woodworth, William Atwood (1898). Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass. White Plains, New York. p.  28 . Retrieved August 9, 2021.