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.