Wadsworth, William
soldier, was born in 1732 in Durham, Conn. At the beginning of the war of 1812 he was brigadier-general of New York militia, and he served in the United States army in 1812-32. He died in February, 1833, in Geneseo, N. Y.
WADSWORTH, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born July 4, 1821, in Maysville, Ky. He was a member of the state senate of Kentucky in 1853 and 1855; and was a presidential elector in 1860, presiding over the electoral college. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirtyseventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. After leaving congress he was appointed a member of the Mexican claims commission. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress.