Worden Pope II was probably born at Popes Creek, Va. (also birthplace of George Washington). After his early years, he lived in Louisville and is said to have been one of the most widely known and universally popular men that ever lived in that city. He was an early Louisville civic and political leader and elected a trustee of Louisville in 1809. He was appointed Jefferson County Court clerk in 1798 and appointed Jefferson Circuit Court clerk in 1803. He held both of those offices until 1834 and continued as clerk of the county court until his death in 1838. The clerkships remained in the Pope family continuously for over sixty years. He was also second postmaster of Louisville, 1797-99, and practiced law outside of Jefferson County. In 1819, he and two of his cousins, William and Alexander Pope, entertained President Monroe and General Andrew Jackson. A series of articles in the Advertiser were written by him in 1828, under the nom de plume of "Publicola" advocating the election of Jackson. His home, a classic and handsome three-story brick house which he built in 1831 on Sixth St. near Walnut Street, was later the Presbyterian Female School, a civil war hospital used by Union troops, 1862-64, various private girls' schools, 1853-86, the Kentucky School of Medicine, Hospital and Dispensary, 1887-1914, and the George D. Prentice Elementary School, 1914-c1975. It was removed for expansion of the telephone company.
One of Worden Pope's biographers, Dr. Nathan Field, a kinsman, thus speaks of him, "The name of Worden Pope, the popular and primeval clerk, was a household word in Jefferson and the adjoining counties. His name was a synonym of honesty and benevolence. He died at a good old age, laden with the honor and esteem of all who know him. His funeral was the largest ever seen in Louisville; it was the outpouring of all classes of people to do honor to a great and good man." In late 1837, entrepreneur and steamboat captain Jeremiah Diller, of Louisville, outfitted a new boat named the Worden Pope.
Worden Pope II married in 1804, Elizabeth Taylor Thruston (1785-1838), daughter of Colonel John (1761-1802) and Elizabeth Thruston Whiting Thruston (1758-1822), of Louisville. They had thirteen children but left only four who became of age and married, Congressman Patrick Henry (1806-41), Edmund Pendleton (1807/9-57), Col. Curran (1813-62) and Gen. Hamilton Pope (1817-93). The others were John Thruston (1808-), Edmonia (1811-), Mary (1813-), Elizabeth (1817-), Selena (1819-), twins Alfred and Paul (1822-), Gideon Blackburn (1824-) and Felix Grundy Pope (1819-). Colonel John Thruston was appointed justice of the quarterly session court in 1796. His brother, Judge John Buckner Thruston (1757-1845), represented Jefferson County in the Virginia Legislature in 1789, was elected U.S. senator, 1805-09, and was appointed U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, 1809-45. The brothers’ father was Presbyterian minister Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston (1738-1812)(Wm&Mary c1760) who served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature.
Worden Pope and his wife were probably buried in the old Western Cemetery on Jefferson St. in Louisville. About 1880 the cemetery was covered over with new soil and sod and converted into Baxter Square Park.
Worden Pope's father, Benjamin Pope, was a 3rd cousin of George Washington. See The Public Advertizer (Louisville), April 23, 1838; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (L.A. Williams & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, 1882), I: 501-504 (biographical article on Worden Pope and family, picture of Hamilton Pope); J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville From Its First Settlement To The Year 1896 (Chicago & New York, 1896), II: 606-607; Kathleen Jennings, Louisville's First Families (Louisville, 1920), 75-76; Judge Charles Kerr, ed. History of Kentucky (Chicago & New York, 1922), IV: 310; Samuel M. Wilson, History of Kentucky (Chicago, 1928), IV: 70-71; W.H. Perrin, Kentucky, A History of the State (Louisville, 1888), VIII-A: 864-875; Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Ky. (Elizabethtown (Rprt.) 1960), 181-184; John McGill, The Beverley Family of Virginia (Columbia, S.C., 1956), 49-50; Philip H. Brown, Thruston Family Tree, 1606-1963 (Houston, 1964), 3; John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, Ky., 2001), 713; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 180.
One of Worden Pope's biographers, Dr. Nathan Field, a kinsman, thus speaks of him, "The name of Worden Pope, the popular and primeval clerk, was a household word in Jefferson and the adjoining counties. His name was a synonym of honesty and benevolence. He died at a good old age, laden with the honor and esteem of all who know him. His funeral was the largest ever seen in Louisville; it was the outpouring of all classes of people to do honor to a great and good man." In late 1837, entrepreneur and steamboat captain Jeremiah Diller, of Louisville, outfitted a new boat named the Worden Pope.
Worden Pope II married in 1804, Elizabeth Taylor Thruston (1785-1838), daughter of Colonel John (1761-1802) and Elizabeth Thruston Whiting Thruston (1758-1822), of Louisville. They had thirteen children but left only four who became of age and married, Congressman Patrick Henry (1806-41), Edmund Pendleton (1807/9-57), Col. Curran (1813-62) and Gen. Hamilton Pope (1817-93). The others were John Thruston (1808-), Edmonia (1811-), Mary (1813-), Elizabeth (1817-), Selena (1819-), twins Alfred and Paul (1822-), Gideon Blackburn (1824-) and Felix Grundy Pope (1819-). Colonel John Thruston was appointed justice of the quarterly session court in 1796. His brother, Judge John Buckner Thruston (1757-1845), represented Jefferson County in the Virginia Legislature in 1789, was elected U.S. senator, 1805-09, and was appointed U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, 1809-45. The brothers’ father was Presbyterian minister Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston (1738-1812)(Wm&Mary c1760) who served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature.
Worden Pope and his wife were probably buried in the old Western Cemetery on Jefferson St. in Louisville. About 1880 the cemetery was covered over with new soil and sod and converted into Baxter Square Park.
Worden Pope's father, Benjamin Pope, was a 3rd cousin of George Washington. See The Public Advertizer (Louisville), April 23, 1838; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (L.A. Williams & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, 1882), I: 501-504 (biographical article on Worden Pope and family, picture of Hamilton Pope); J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville From Its First Settlement To The Year 1896 (Chicago & New York, 1896), II: 606-607; Kathleen Jennings, Louisville's First Families (Louisville, 1920), 75-76; Judge Charles Kerr, ed. History of Kentucky (Chicago & New York, 1922), IV: 310; Samuel M. Wilson, History of Kentucky (Chicago, 1928), IV: 70-71; W.H. Perrin, Kentucky, A History of the State (Louisville, 1888), VIII-A: 864-875; Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Ky. (Elizabethtown (Rprt.) 1960), 181-184; John McGill, The Beverley Family of Virginia (Columbia, S.C., 1956), 49-50; Philip H. Brown, Thruston Family Tree, 1606-1963 (Houston, 1964), 3; John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, Ky., 2001), 713; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 180.
Worden Pope II was probably born at Popes Creek, Va. (also birthplace of George Washington). After his early years, he lived in Louisville and is said to have been one of the most widely known and universally popular men that ever lived in that city. He was an early Louisville civic and political leader and elected a trustee of Louisville in 1809. He was appointed Jefferson County Court clerk in 1798 and appointed Jefferson Circuit Court clerk in 1803. He held both of those offices until 1834 and continued as clerk of the county court until his death in 1838. The clerkships remained in the Pope family continuously for over sixty years. He was also second postmaster of Louisville, 1797-99, and practiced law outside of Jefferson County. In 1819, he and two of his cousins, William and Alexander Pope, entertained President Monroe and General Andrew Jackson. A series of articles in the Advertiser were written by him in 1828, under the nom de plume of "Publicola" advocating the election of Jackson. His home, a classic and handsome three-story brick house which he built in 1831 on Sixth St. near Walnut Street, was later the Presbyterian Female School, a civil war hospital used by Union troops, 1862-64, various private girls' schools, 1853-86, the Kentucky School of Medicine, Hospital and Dispensary, 1887-1914, and the George D. Prentice Elementary School, 1914-c1975. It was removed for expansion of the telephone company.
One of Worden Pope's biographers, Dr. Nathan Field, a kinsman, thus speaks of him, "The name of Worden Pope, the popular and primeval clerk, was a household word in Jefferson and the adjoining counties. His name was a synonym of honesty and benevolence. He died at a good old age, laden with the honor and esteem of all who know him. His funeral was the largest ever seen in Louisville; it was the outpouring of all classes of people to do honor to a great and good man." In late 1837, entrepreneur and steamboat captain Jeremiah Diller, of Louisville, outfitted a new boat named the Worden Pope.
Worden Pope II married in 1804, Elizabeth Taylor Thruston (1785-1838), daughter of Colonel John (1761-1802) and Elizabeth Thruston Whiting Thruston (1758-1822), of Louisville. They had thirteen children but left only four who became of age and married, Congressman Patrick Henry (1806-41), Edmund Pendleton (1807/9-57), Col. Curran (1813-62) and Gen. Hamilton Pope (1817-93). The others were John Thruston (1808-), Edmonia (1811-), Mary (1813-), Elizabeth (1817-), Selena (1819-), twins Alfred and Paul (1822-), Gideon Blackburn (1824-) and Felix Grundy Pope (1819-). Colonel John Thruston was appointed justice of the quarterly session court in 1796. His brother, Judge John Buckner Thruston (1757-1845), represented Jefferson County in the Virginia Legislature in 1789, was elected U.S. senator, 1805-09, and was appointed U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, 1809-45. The brothers’ father was Presbyterian minister Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston (1738-1812)(Wm&Mary c1760) who served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature.
Worden Pope and his wife were probably buried in the old Western Cemetery on Jefferson St. in Louisville. About 1880 the cemetery was covered over with new soil and sod and converted into Baxter Square Park.
Worden Pope's father, Benjamin Pope, was a 3rd cousin of George Washington. See The Public Advertizer (Louisville), April 23, 1838; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (L.A. Williams & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, 1882), I: 501-504 (biographical article on Worden Pope and family, picture of Hamilton Pope); J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville From Its First Settlement To The Year 1896 (Chicago & New York, 1896), II: 606-607; Kathleen Jennings, Louisville's First Families (Louisville, 1920), 75-76; Judge Charles Kerr, ed. History of Kentucky (Chicago & New York, 1922), IV: 310; Samuel M. Wilson, History of Kentucky (Chicago, 1928), IV: 70-71; W.H. Perrin, Kentucky, A History of the State (Louisville, 1888), VIII-A: 864-875; Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Ky. (Elizabethtown (Rprt.) 1960), 181-184; John McGill, The Beverley Family of Virginia (Columbia, S.C., 1956), 49-50; Philip H. Brown, Thruston Family Tree, 1606-1963 (Houston, 1964), 3; John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, Ky., 2001), 713; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 180.
One of Worden Pope's biographers, Dr. Nathan Field, a kinsman, thus speaks of him, "The name of Worden Pope, the popular and primeval clerk, was a household word in Jefferson and the adjoining counties. His name was a synonym of honesty and benevolence. He died at a good old age, laden with the honor and esteem of all who know him. His funeral was the largest ever seen in Louisville; it was the outpouring of all classes of people to do honor to a great and good man." In late 1837, entrepreneur and steamboat captain Jeremiah Diller, of Louisville, outfitted a new boat named the Worden Pope.
Worden Pope II married in 1804, Elizabeth Taylor Thruston (1785-1838), daughter of Colonel John (1761-1802) and Elizabeth Thruston Whiting Thruston (1758-1822), of Louisville. They had thirteen children but left only four who became of age and married, Congressman Patrick Henry (1806-41), Edmund Pendleton (1807/9-57), Col. Curran (1813-62) and Gen. Hamilton Pope (1817-93). The others were John Thruston (1808-), Edmonia (1811-), Mary (1813-), Elizabeth (1817-), Selena (1819-), twins Alfred and Paul (1822-), Gideon Blackburn (1824-) and Felix Grundy Pope (1819-). Colonel John Thruston was appointed justice of the quarterly session court in 1796. His brother, Judge John Buckner Thruston (1757-1845), represented Jefferson County in the Virginia Legislature in 1789, was elected U.S. senator, 1805-09, and was appointed U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, 1809-45. The brothers’ father was Presbyterian minister Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston (1738-1812)(Wm&Mary c1760) who served as a colonel in the Revolutionary War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature.
Worden Pope and his wife were probably buried in the old Western Cemetery on Jefferson St. in Louisville. About 1880 the cemetery was covered over with new soil and sod and converted into Baxter Square Park.
Worden Pope's father, Benjamin Pope, was a 3rd cousin of George Washington. See The Public Advertizer (Louisville), April 23, 1838; History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties (L.A. Williams & Co. Cleveland, Ohio, 1882), I: 501-504 (biographical article on Worden Pope and family, picture of Hamilton Pope); J. Stoddard Johnston, Memorial History of Louisville From Its First Settlement To The Year 1896 (Chicago & New York, 1896), II: 606-607; Kathleen Jennings, Louisville's First Families (Louisville, 1920), 75-76; Judge Charles Kerr, ed. History of Kentucky (Chicago & New York, 1922), IV: 310; Samuel M. Wilson, History of Kentucky (Chicago, 1928), IV: 70-71; W.H. Perrin, Kentucky, A History of the State (Louisville, 1888), VIII-A: 864-875; Samuel Haycraft, A History of Elizabethtown, Ky. (Elizabethtown (Rprt.) 1960), 181-184; John McGill, The Beverley Family of Virginia (Columbia, S.C., 1956), 49-50; Philip H. Brown, Thruston Family Tree, 1606-1963 (Houston, 1964), 3; John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington, Ky., 2001), 713; James Houston Barr III, Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Pope, c1610-1660, of Virginia, Ancestor of Washington, Governors and Legislators, History of His Descendants (Louisville, Ky. 2018), 180.
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