Born in Manchester, England; was reared and educated in his native land, where he learned and followed the trade of calico printer.
At Manchester his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Sidebotham, was born in the year 1807, and there their marriage was solemnized. They continued their residence in England until 1825, when as young folk of ambition and earnest purpose, they came to the United States and first settled in Rhode Island, where Mr. Worthington gave his attention to farm industry for the ensuing decade.
In 1835 he became a pioneer settler in Boone County, Illinois, near the present village of Poplar Grove, and there he homesteaded and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in that county, where his death occurred in 1880.
Mrs. Worthington attained to the extremely venerable age of ninety-three years and was one of the revered pioneer women of Illinois, though she passed the closing period of her long and gracious life at Richmond, Minnesota, where her death occurred in 1899.
At Manchester his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Sidebotham, was born in the year 1807, and there their marriage was solemnized. They continued their residence in England until 1825, when as young folk of ambition and earnest purpose, they came to the United States and first settled in Rhode Island, where Mr. Worthington gave his attention to farm industry for the ensuing decade.
In 1835 he became a pioneer settler in Boone County, Illinois, near the present village of Poplar Grove, and there he homesteaded and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in that county, where his death occurred in 1880.
Mrs. Worthington attained to the extremely venerable age of ninety-three years and was one of the revered pioneer women of Illinois, though she passed the closing period of her long and gracious life at Richmond, Minnesota, where her death occurred in 1899.
Born in Manchester, England; was reared and educated in his native land, where he learned and followed the trade of calico printer.
At Manchester his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Sidebotham, was born in the year 1807, and there their marriage was solemnized. They continued their residence in England until 1825, when as young folk of ambition and earnest purpose, they came to the United States and first settled in Rhode Island, where Mr. Worthington gave his attention to farm industry for the ensuing decade.
In 1835 he became a pioneer settler in Boone County, Illinois, near the present village of Poplar Grove, and there he homesteaded and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in that county, where his death occurred in 1880.
Mrs. Worthington attained to the extremely venerable age of ninety-three years and was one of the revered pioneer women of Illinois, though she passed the closing period of her long and gracious life at Richmond, Minnesota, where her death occurred in 1899.
At Manchester his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Sidebotham, was born in the year 1807, and there their marriage was solemnized. They continued their residence in England until 1825, when as young folk of ambition and earnest purpose, they came to the United States and first settled in Rhode Island, where Mr. Worthington gave his attention to farm industry for the ensuing decade.
In 1835 he became a pioneer settler in Boone County, Illinois, near the present village of Poplar Grove, and there he homesteaded and developed a productive farm. Both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in that county, where his death occurred in 1880.
Mrs. Worthington attained to the extremely venerable age of ninety-three years and was one of the revered pioneer women of Illinois, though she passed the closing period of her long and gracious life at Richmond, Minnesota, where her death occurred in 1899.
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