Adair County Iowa
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Amos C. Worthington owns and operates a fine farm on section 16, Eureka township, and the excellent appearance of the place indiates his careful supervision and his practical and progressive methods. Pennsylvania claims him as a native son. He was born in Lycoming county, November 4, 1864, and his parents, George and Savilla (Fry) Worthington, were also natives of the Keystone state. The father was a farmer and carried on the work of the fields in Pennsylvania until 1877, when he came to Iowa, settling in Adams county, wehre he engaged in farming for a year. In 1878 he removed to Adair county, where he followed agricultural pursuits for eight years. He then sold out and went to Kansas, where he purchased land, which he continued to develop and improve to the time of his death in 1896. His widow survives and yet makes her home in the Sunflower state. Amos C. Worthington was reared in Pennsylvania and in Iowa and the public schools afforded him his educational advantages. Through the summer months he worked in the fields with his father and remained at home until he reached the age of seventeen years, when he began working out as a farm hand, being thus employed until he reached the age of twenty-eight. He was desirous, however, of owning a farm and carefully saved his earnings until he was enabled to purchase eighty acres north of Greenfield. He lost that property in 1896, however, after which he rented for eleven years. He then again made investment in farm land, becoming the owner of two hundred and forty acres on section 16, Eureka township, where he now resides. He has since made wonderful changes in the place by the improvements he has put upon it and by the progressive methods which he has utilized in developing his farm. On September 1, 1889, Mr. Worthington was united in marriage to Miss Delpha Jordan, a daughter of Francis and Nancy (Booher) Jordan, natives of Ohio. The father was a farmer and became a pioneer settler of Adair county, arriving here at an early day and continuing actively in farm work until 1898. He then went to Oklahoma, where he has since engaged in farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Worthington have been born four children: Carrie B., who died February 20, 1915, at the age of twenty-four years; George M., a resident farmer of Eureka township, now twenty-three years of age; Harvey D., aged seventeen, at home; and Ray F., who died October 18, 1898, at the age of four years. Mr. and Mrs. Worthington are also rearing two adopted children, Vernon T. and Dorothy, who are brother and sister and who are aged respectively twelve and seven years. Mr. Worthington votes with the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the United Brethren church. He is today numbered among the successful farmers of his county. Not all periods of his career have been equally bright, but with characteristic and commendable energy and determination he has overcome the obstacles and difficulties in his path and has eventually reached the plane of affluence. |
