Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Edward Norris Wentworth
WENTWORTH, EDWARD NORRIS (1887–1959), inducted 1940
Although he was born in Dover, New Hampshire, Edward Wentworth spent years of his youth in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Iowa State College in 1903, and his master’s in 1909. From 1907 to 1913, Wentworth taught animal husbandry at the school, leaving to accept the position of associate editor of The Breeders’ Gazette. In 1914, he was named professor at Kansas State Agricultural College, but his teaching career was interrupted by service in World War I, as a colonel in the field artillery. After the war, he participated in the formation of the American Expeditionary Forces School in France. In 1919, Wentworth joined the public relations department of Armour and Company in Chicago, and soon after, began a long tenure as ringmaster of the International Live Stock Exposition. From 1923 to 1957, Wentworth was director of Armour’s Livestock Bureau. An avid art collector, he wrote numerous books, including the 1920 biographical catalogue that documented the first two decades of this collection, The Portrait Gallery of the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Col. Wentworth was chairman of the Saddle & Sirloin Club’s Art Committee. Iowa State awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1951.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 199