LANGWORTHY, Stephen

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LANGWORTHY, Stephen. (Windsor, VT, Oct 4, 1777--Dubuque, IA, July 27, 1848) On November 10, 1799, Langworthy married Betsy Massey (February 20, 1781 – September 16, 1820), the aunt of Woodbury MASSEY, in Windsor, Vermont. He graduated with his medical degree from Yale University in 1804 and began working in New York State. He was an army physician and surgeon in the War of 1812. After the war, Dr. Stephen moved his family to Pennsylvania, then Ohio, and eventually Illinois. The family worked a large farm in Illinois, and Langworthy practiced medicine in nearby St. Louis, Missouri.

After losing his wife Betsey and son, Stephen Langworthy (July 25, 1801 – April 5, 1820), to malaria, Langworthy moved his eleven children to Diamond Grove, near Jacksonville, Illinois and purchased several acres of land which had been cultivated by the Kickapoo Indians. This land proved productive and good support. It was during this time that Stephen met his second wife, Jane Moureing. She eventually bore him nine more children, giving Stephen a total of twenty-one offspring.

Langworthy remained in Illinois as his older sons moved away, eventually selling the farm in 1831 and moving to St. Louis. In 1834 he came to Dubuque with his son, Solon. Dr. Stephen Langworthy was buried in the Dubuque City Cemetery and moved to LINWOOD CEMETERY in the 1850s. Dr. Stephen Langworthy, father of the famous Langworthy brothers, came to Dubuque in 1834 and became Dubuque's first permanent physician and a United States land officer.

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http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hal/Langworthy/ps06/ps06_329.html

"Stephen Langworthy," Linwood Legacies. Online: http://www.linwoodlegacies.org/stephen-langworthy.html