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“So I am not the only one who thought that was Frederick Douglas in the photo.”

No you were not alone. :) But if you google Wentworth Cheswell, a lot of pictures of Frederick Douglas pop up, so I could see how people could get mixed up. There’s also a hospital called Wentworth-Douglas in New Hampshire (presumably named after the two of them) so maybe that’s how the confusion started.

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Y'all mean this dude?

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Wentworth Cheswell, the Black Man Who Rode With Paul Revere.

Yet another great Granite State Patriot

Wentworth Cheswell is considered New Hampshire's first archaeologist and the first African-American elected to public office in the United States. He also rode north when Paul Revere rode west to warn colonists that the redcoats were coming.

As for the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital..

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital was conceived as a 30-bed hospital on March 15, 1904 when the Dover City Council accepted "the receipt in trust of a legacy under the will of the late Arioch Wentworth" who gave "to the town of Dover, NH, for a hospital to be called the Wentworth", $100,000.