WILLIAM H. VARNEY 



MEMBER 



William H. Varney was born in Wolfboro, New Hampshire, April 19, 

 1838. He was educated in the Boston High School, taking the Franklin 

 Medal. He then went as apprentice in naval architecture to Samuel K. Pook 

 in Med ford and Boston. 



Mr. Pook went out of business before Mr. Varney reached his majority, 

 which forced him to go into business for himself before he was twenty-one 

 years of age. He established him;self in a mould loft in East Boston, where 

 during the next succeeding eight years he designed over five hundred ves- 

 sels for the merchants' and shipbuilders O'f Boston and vicinity, many of his 

 vessels being prize winners on long ocean races. 



He designed the brig Novelty, which was the first tank vessel to carry 

 fluid in bulk (molasses). 



He entered the U. S. Navy in 1869 as assistant naval constructor, his 

 first assignment being Portsmouth, N. H. He was appointed to the rank 

 of naval constructor in 1875. He continued in active service until the 

 date of his retirement, April 19, 1900, when he was retired with the rank 

 of captain, having reached the retiring age. 



He superintended the construction of many of the vessels which formed 

 the nucleus of the new Navy in its transition from wood to steel. 



He became a member of the Society on its organization in 1893, and re- 

 mained a member up until the time of his death. May 22, 1918. He leaves 

 a widow and one son, William W. Varney, who is also a memiber of the 

 Society. 



JOHN FRANK WENTWORTH 



MEMBER 



John F. Wentworth was bom at Rochester, N. H., February 1, 1879, 

 and received his preliminary education, in the public schools oif that town. He 

 received his technical education in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 being a graduate of the 1900 class of Naval Architecture and Marine En- 

 gineering. 



