Worch, Rudolph – Worthington, Thomas C
Worch, Rudolph
soldier, journalist, poet, was born June 10, 1846, in Germany. He served in the civil war until its close. In 1871 he took charge of a German paper, The Volksfreund; and is the author of a number of poems.
Word, Thomas J
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1838 to 1839.
Worden, John Lorimer
naval officer, was born March 12, 1818, in Westchester county, N. Y. He was commander of the Yankee cheese box, the Monitor, in her famous fight with the iron-clad Merrimac, March 9, 1862, the first battle between iron-clad ships in the world's history. He was commissioned rear-admiral in 1872; was commander-in-chief of the European squadron from 1875- 77; then served as a member of the examining board and president of the retiring board until 1886, when, his health failing, he retired with the highest seapay of his grade. He died in 1886.
Work, Henry Clay
poet, was born Oct. 1, 1832, in Middletown, Conn. He was a popular song-writer of Chicago. Marching Through Georgia; and Grandfather's Clock are perhaps the best known of his songs. He died June 8, 1884, in Hartford, Conn.
Workman, Charles H
lawyer, author, was born April 23, 1859, near Millersburgh, Ohio. For ten years he taught English literature and political economy in the Ohio Normal university. He served as a member of the seventieth general assembly of Ohio. He is the author of The Ohio Arbitration Law, and The Workman School Law.
WORKMAN, MRS. FANNY [BUL- LOCK], author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. With her husband she has written Algerian Memories: a Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara; and Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia.
Workman, William Hunter
physician, author, was born in 1847 in Massachusetts. He is a physician who is co-author with Mrs. Workman of Algerian Memories, and Sketches Awheel.
Worley, Caleb
educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 18, 1832, in Liberty, Ky. He received a thorough education; has been a college professor; county superintendent of schools; has attained success as an eminent clergyman in the baptist church, and now fills a pastorate in Clarksville, Tex.
Worman, James Henry
educator, author, was born Feb. 28, 1835, in Prussia. He is an educator who has filled professorships in various colleges north and south; and is the author of Complete Grammar of the German Language; Elementary German Grammar; and L'Echo de Paris.
Worman, Ludwig
tanner, congressman, was born in Bucks county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1822. He died in 1822.
Wormeley, Ariana Randolph
author, was born Oct. 14, 1835, in England. She has published a comedy entitled The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76, that has been acted in public and private both in the United States and in.
Europe.
WORMELEY, KATHARINE PRES- COTT, translator, author, was born July 14, 1832, in England. She is a translator of prominence who has translated the novels of Balzac and the plays of Molière, and is the author of The Other Side of War; Life of Balzac; The United States Sanitary Commission; and Hospital Transports.
Wormeley, Mary Elizabeth
author, was born July 26, 1822, in England.
She has contributed to magazines, and published Forest Hill: a Tale of Social Life in 1830-31; Amabel, a Family History; Our Cousin Veronica; and Familiar Talks on Some of Shakespeare's Comedies; also translations of Louis Ulbach's Madame Gosselin; The Steel Hammer; and For Fifteen Years.
Wormly, Theodore George
physician, author, was born April 1, 1826, in Wormleysburg, Pa. He is a Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in the university of Pennsylvania from 1877; and is the author of Methods of Analysis of Coals, etc.; and The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons.
Wortendyke, Jacob R
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1818, in Chestnut Ridge, N. J. He was alderman of Jersey City, where he practiced law; and was elected a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from New Jersey.
He died Nov. 7, 1868, in Jersey City, N. J.
Worth, Jonathan
lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Nov. 18, 1802, in Guilford county, N. C. He was a member of the North Carolina legislature in 1829-34. He was also for several terms a member of the state senate. He was a member of the lower house of the legislature from 1862 till the end of the war, and was public treasurer of the state during the same period. He was elected governor, and served until 1868. He died Sept. 5, 1869, in Raleigh, N. C.
Worth, Thomas
caricaturist, was born Feb. 12, 1834, in New York. He first came prominently before the public in 1862, with his illustrations to Plutarch Restored. He illustrated also some of the books of Orpheus C. Kerr, the edition of Dicken's Old Curiosity Shop that was published by the Harpers in 1878, and numerous other works. At present he is. on the staff of Texas Siftings.
Worth, William Jenkins
soldier, was born March 1, 1794, in Hudson, N. Y.
He was prominent during the war of 1812, and the Indian wars succeeding, and for his valuable services in the Mexican war was advanced to major-general. He died May 7, 1849, in San Antonio, Tex.
Worthen, Mrs. Augusta Har- Vey
educator, historian, poet, was born Sept. 27, 1823, in Sutton, N. H. For many years she was engaged in educational work; and has written extensively for the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States.
She is the author of a Town History, in the compilation of which she was for twenty years engaged in collecting and arranging the material. Her poems have been incorporated in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Worthen, Robert Watkins
planter, legislator, was born Nov. 10, 1847, in Little Rock, Ark. He received a thorough education; is a successful planter; and still resides in the city of his nativity.
He has served as county and probate clerk; as sheriff; and as collector of his county. He has also filled with distinction the position of state senator in the Arkansas state legislature.
Worthen, William Ezra
civil engineer, author, was born March 14, 1819, in Amesbury, Mass. He is a civil engineer of prominence; and the author of Cyclopædia of Drawing; First Lessons in Mechanics; and Rudimentary Drawing for Schools.
Worthington, Erastus
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 8, 1779, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a member of the general court of Dedham, Mass., in 1814- 15. He published An Essay on the Establishment of a Chancery Jurisdiction in Massachusetts; and History of Dedham, from the Beginning of its Settlement in 1635 to 1827. He died June 27, 1842, in Dedham, Mass.
Worthington, George
bishop, was born Oct. 14, 1842, in Lenox, Mass.
For seventeen years he was rector of St.
John's church of Detroit, Mich., one of the largest protestant episcopal churches in the west. In 1884 he was elected bishop of Nebraska, and was consecrated the following year.
Worthington, H. G
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1828, in Cumberland, Md. In 1861 he was elected to the California state legislature from the city and county of San Francisco. In 1862 he moved to the territory of Nevada, and settled in Austin. On the admission of Nevada as a state he was elected the first representative therefrom, taking his seat during the second session of the thirty-eighth congress. In 1868 he was appointed minister to Uruguay.
Worthington, Henry Rossiter
inventor, was born Dec. 17, 1817, in New York city. In 1854 he invented a direct acting compound condensing engine; he set up the first one ever made in Savannah, Ga. He afterwards invented the duplex pump.
Worthington, John T. H
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from nat state from 1831 to 1833, and again from 1837 to 1841.
Worthington, Nicholas Ells- Worth
lawyer, congressman, was born March 30, 1835, in Brooke county, W. Va.
He was county superintendent of schools from 1864 to 1872 in Peoria, Ill. He was a member of the state board of public instruction from 1868 to 1872; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
Worthington, Thomas
United States senator, governor, was born July 16, 1773, in Charleston, W. Va. He was a senator in congress from Ohio from 1803 to 1807, and again from 1810 to 1814, when he resigned. From 1814 to 1818 he was governor of Ohio. After his retirement from that office he was appointed a member of the first board of canal commissioners, in which capacity he served until his death. He died June 20, 1827, in New York city.
Worthington, Thomas C
congressman, was born in Prince George county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1825 to 1827.
He died June 19, 1827.