Note 700 — Chapter XII · THE NEW FORT DEARBORN
Reading edition
Drennan Papers, Fort Dearborn post returns.
[701] Wentworth, Early Chicago, 24-25. In 1857 Wentworth was said to be the tallest man in Chicago, measuring about six feet and a half and weighing two hundred and thirty pounds (Chicago Magazine, I, 399).
[702] Heitman, Dictionary of the United States Army, I, 679.
[703] Van Cleve, Three Score Years and Ten, 31.
[704] Wentworth, Early Chicago, 24.
[705] Ibid., Heitman, op. cit., I, 679.