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He traces his descent from John Walker, a soldier of the Crimean War, who was rewarded for his military service with a government pension. He was born in Heanor, England, in 1802, died there in 1878. By trade he was a stocking weaver, working on a hand loom. He and his family were mem- bers of the Church of England; children : Josepli, yet residing in Mansfield, Derbyshire, England ; John (2) (of further mention) : Sarah, married a Mr. Elliott and resides on their farm in New Zealand ; Bessie, married a Mr. Wat- son, whom she survives ; William, died in Heanor, England.
John (2) Walker, son of John (1) Walker, was born in England in 1833, now both he and his wife residents of Heanor, Derbyshire, England. He was a contractor in the coal mines until 1896 when he retired. His wife was Mary
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Ann Eggleshaw, born in England in 1833 : both now aged eighty years are in good health and active members of the Church of England. In politics he has always been a strong Tory and has been a member of many lodges and socie- ties, political, social and beneficial : children, all born in England : Arthur, mar- ried a Miss Watson and resides in Derbyshire. a coal miner ; Jeremiah, resides in Long Eaton, Nottinghamshire, England, a lace maker; John, resides in Heanor, England, a coal miner : Herbert. resides in Derbyshire. England, a coal miner; Philip (of further mention) : Sarah, married John Jackson. a weaver and resides in Heanor: Ambrose, resides in Nottinghamshire, Eng- land. a moulder : Isaiah, resides in Heanor. a coal miner ; Abner, came to the United States and is employed by his brother. Philip, in Chester.
Philip Walker, fifth son of John ( 2) and Mary Ann ( Eggleshaw ) Walk- er, was born in Nottinghamshire, England, January 29, 1868. He attended school until he was thirteen years of age. then began working in the coal mines of the neighborhood. Later he obtained employment in a foundry as an apprentice and there remained until he became an expert moulder. At the age of nineteen years in 1887. he came to the United States, landing in New York, came at once to Philadelphia, beginning his residence in that city in April, 1887. In the month of May following he located in Chester. and the lay following. May 29, he began work at his trade in the old Chester Steel Works. He remained in that employ six years, then established a bottling bus- iness at No. 233 Edgemont avenne, removing three years later to No. 211 and No. 213 on the same avenne, where he yet remains in business. Ile is the only licensed bottler in Chester and has a large building devoted to the needs of his business. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; the Loyal Order of Aloose; the Owls; the Im- proved Order of Red Men; the Heptasophs; the Knights of Pythias; the Foresters of America and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He has business interests outside his bottling works and is a director of the Steel Castings Com- pany, of Chester.
He married in Chester, June 29, 1891, Gertrude Smith, born in Columbia. Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; children, all born in Chester: John, died in infancy: Abner, born December 9. 1893. educated in Chester high school and now a student in Pierce's Business College. Philadelphia ; Mildred, born in May, 1895, a student in Chester high school; Dorothy. December 8, 1899: Philip (2), September, 1002; Gertrude, February. 1904.
PADDOCK According to well established tradition the Paddock family came from Wales, but lived for a time in England, prior to the emigration to America. Robert Paddock. the first of the name of whom we have record, lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1634, and is believed to have been a resident there as early as 1630. He died in Ply- mouth, July 25. 1650, aged not over sixty-seven years. Ilis widow Mary sold. December 3. 1650, her "house, garden plot and shop. situate in Plymonth in the South street" and "3 acres of upland lying in the Newfield" to Stephen Wood, on the condition that she was to live there until the first of the fol- lowing March. Children: Robert, who lived in Dartmouth; Zachariah, of whom further: Mary, born July 27. 1634. married William Palmer : Alice. married, May 7, 1663. Zachariah, son of Sammel Eddy, the Pilgrim ; Susanna, married November 30, 1665. John Eddy, brother of Zachariah, and died March 14. 1670: John, born 1643, was brought up by Thomas Willett, of Plymouth. and became one of the first settlers of Swansey, and married Anna Jones, No- vember 21. 1673. These children are probably not in order of birth.
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(II) Zachariah, son of Robert Paddock, the emigrant, was born at Ply- mouth, in 1640, died at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, May 1, 1727. He was a landowner, town surveyor and juryman. He married, in 1659, Deborah Sears. who survived him. He left "of his own posterity forty-eight grandchildren and thirty-eight great-grandchildren," and of the latter "no less than thirty descended from his second son." "He obtained the character of a righteous man" and his widow at the age of eighty-eight years was "well reported for her good works." Children: Ichabod, born February 2, 1661 ; Zachariah, of whom further ; Elizabeth, August 1, 1666; John, May 5, 1669; Robert, Jan- uary 17, 1670; Joseph, September 12, 1674; Nathaniel, September 22, 1677; Judah. September 15, 1681.
(III) Zachariah (2). son of Zachariah (I) and Deborah ( Sears) Pad- dock, was born in Yarmouth "about the middle of April," 1664, and died April 8, 1718. By his will dated April 5, 1718, he disposed of a large and varied estate, one item in the inventory being "a negro man valued at fifty pounds." He left his widow, Mary, ten pounds in money. the eastern end of the house. a horse "which she brought with her." a cow, ten sheep, one swine, etc., and made provision that she should be thus supplied during her life. His first wife, Bethiah Hall, daughter of Deacon John Hall, died March 7, 1707. He married (second) July 29, 1708, Mary Thatcher, of Yarmouth. Children, all but two by first wife : Deborah, born April 2. 1685 : Ichabod, of whom further ; Elizabeth, February 11. 1690; Zachariah, November 10, 1692; James, Decem- ber 24, 1694; Peter, May 27, 1697: Bethiah, May 25, 1699; Mary. July 10, 1701 : John, May 21. 1703; David, August 12, 1705: Priscilla, February 29, 1707: Hannah, "about the middle of August," 1709; Anthony, February 3. 1711. Some of the members of this family were engaged in the whaling busi- ness.
(IV) Ichabod, son of Zachariah (2) and Bethiah (Hall) Paddock, was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. June 1, 1687, died August 5, 1750. He and his wife were both active members of the First Church in Middleborough, where they settled. She was Joanna Faunce, daughter of Elder Faunce, and granddaughter of the Pilgrim, John Faunce. Children, the first five born in Yarmouth : Bethiah, born September 21, 1713, died in infancy : Priscilla, Octo- ber 1. 1715, married Thomas Savery; Jane, August. 1717, married Gideon Bradford: Joanna, June 15, 1719, married Louis Harlow : Ephraim, April 15, 1721. married Sarah Bradford; Thomas, of whom further: Zachariah. Feb- ruary 20, 1725; Patience, November 6. 1727 : James, April II, 1730, married and left issue.
(\') Thomas, son of Ichabod and Joanna ( Faunce ) Paddock, was born in Middleborough. Massachusetts, May 5, 1723. Ile married. December 3. 1747, Hannah, daughter of William Thomas, gentleman. In religion he was a Quaker. "He was of middling stature, dark complexion, good ftesh and health, a sedate and discreet man." They moved to the town of Holland, Massachusetts, where most of their children were born, and where he died up- wards of eighty years of age. Their children were: William, born in Mid- dleborough, November 5, 1748: Ichabod, born in Middleborough, March 28, 1751 : Hannah, born in Middleborough, June 11, 1752: Joanna. born in Mid- dleborough. February 27, 1755 : Thomas, of whom further : Sally, born in Hol- land : Zachariah, born in Holland, about 1758: Mary, born in Holland ; Nancy. born in Holland; Stephen, born in Holland, May 25, 1766; Charity, born in Holland, November 13, 1772. Of these all but one lived to be over seventy years of age. Zachariah died of smallpox in the Revolutionary army.
(VI) Thomas (2). son of Thomas (1) and Hannah (Thomas) Paddock, was born in Holland, Massachusetts, about 1756; died at Little Lakes, New
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York. December 25, 1823, of apoplexy. He was remarkable for manly pro- portions and uncommon strength, and was of good mental capacity and general culture. He married, in 1780, Elizabeth Lewis, of Hopkinton. Rhode Island, horn November 28. 1702. They lived first in Bennington, Vermont, where five of their children were born. They then moved to Warren, New York. Mrs. Paddock died in Binghamton, New York, ninety-six years of age. They had thirteen children, of whom eight lived to maturity. Four of them: Ben- jamin Green, of whom further; Thomas, Zachariah and Solomon became Methodist ministers.
(\'11) Rev. Benjamin Green Paddock, son of Thomas (2) and Eliza- beth ( Lewis) Paddock, was born in Bennington, Vermont, January 24. 1789. (lied in Metuchen, New Jersey, October 6, 1871. He became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church at an early age and lived a long life of usefulness, which is told in a book, "Memoir of Rev. B. G. Paddock," by his brother, Zachariah. He married (first) Sophronia Perry, niece of Commodore Oliver 11. Perry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1794, died at Canton, New York, in her forty-second year. He married ( second) Sophy Scott. The children, all by first marriage, were: William H. P., of whom further : Mary Elizabeth, born in Cooperstown, New York, May 13, 1819, married Rev. T. T. Bradford, died in Metuchen, New Jersey, in July, 1904: Francis Asbury, born in Cooperstown, New York, 1821, died in New York; Delia Anna, born in Auburn, New York, February 21, 1824, married Dr. Horace Lathrop, died in Cooperstown, New York, in September, 1891 ; Benjamin Case, born in Louis- ville, New York, April 2, 1825, a merchant, lived and died in New York ; Sophronia Sophia, born in Potsdam, lived to the age of eighty-five years, un- married; Zachariah, born in Cazenovia, New York, 1829, died in infancy ; Wilber Fisk, born in Cazenovia, New York, 1831, became a minister in the Episcopal church, spent his life mainly in and near Philadelphia, died in Den- ver, Colorado; George Leys, born in Cazenovia, died in infancy.
(VIII) Rev. William Il. Perry Paddock, eldest son of Rev. Benjamin Green and Sophronia ( Perry ) Paddock, was born in Canandaigua, New York, during his father's ministry as an itinerant Methodist preacher. May 15, 1817. died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1872. He was a man of high edu- cation, obtaining his classical education in Union College, New York, and then preparing for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church at a theological institution of learning in Virginia. He was regularly ordained to the minis- try of that church and served as rector of churches in both New York and Pennsylvania. After his marriage in New York state he continued there four years, then located in Pennsylvania, where as assistant to Bishop Potter he was largely engaged in mission work and in the establishment of new churches, principally in the northwestern part of the state. During the civil war he served as chaplain in the Union army, and was stationed at Fort Delaware. where he contracted the disease from which he died in 1872. He was a faith- ful servant of God and a useful minister of the Gospel.
He married, in Utica. New York, December 29, 1840, Laura Stewart, who survived him. She was born in Louisville, New York, June 4, 1821, died in Philadelphia, December 21, 1879, daughter of William and Rachel ( Rock- well) Stewart, old residents of Butternuts, New York, where Mrs. Stewart died. William Stewart, a wool merchant, died in Trenton, New Jersey. Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart : Horatio, died in Lockport, New York : Laura, married Rev. William H. P. Paddock. Children of Rev. and Mrs. Paddock : I. Laura Lusetta, died in infancy. 2. Mary Stewart, married Alfred Nesmith, and resides in Philadelphia. 3. William Francis, a veteran of the civil war, now a real estate dealer in Philadelphia. 4. Frederick Leighton, of whom
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further. 5. Charles De Long, died in infancy. 6. George Henry, a civil en- gineer. died in Philadelphia in 1899. 7. Alice Eliza, died aged sixteen years. 8. Horatio Stewart, died while a college student in Philadelphia. 9. Edward James, a florist. died in Cleveland, Ohio. 10. Joseph Hill, a mining engineer, died in Connellsville. Pennsylvania. 11. Benjamin Perry, a physician of Cleveland, Ohio, deceased. 12. Sophia Wilkins, died unmarried in Denver, Colorado. 13. Alfred Russell. a civil engineer, now residing at Farmdale, Ohio.
(IX) Frederick Leighton, second son and fourth child of Rev. William H. Perry and Laura ( Stewart) Paddock, was born in Utica, New York, April 29, 1846. He was educated in the state of Delaware, choosing the profession of civil engineer. While still at his studies in 1864 a call was made to oppose a Confederate raid into Maryland, and he enlisted in the Seventh Delaware, in which regiment he served six weeks. In 1866 he was professionally engaged on work at Fort Delaware. He then went to Philadelphia, and was connected with the Fairmount Park surveys as assistant engineer, and with the Centen- nial Exhibit as principal assistant engineer and on other engineering under- takings. In 1880 he went West and was employed in railroad building and other professional work. Returning east again he became connected with the Norfolk and Western railroad as resident engineer. In 1883 he returned to Philadelphia and was employed by the city as principal assistant engineer of survey on new water supply. After completing this he returned to the Nor- folk and Western railroad as division engineer on the West Virginia exten- sion. and remained with them until 1888, when he became associated with the Flat-top Coal Land Association, continuing as chief engineer of that company until his retirement in 1899. In the latter year he moved to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, purchasing land in Haverford township, where he erected a beautiful country mansion, his present home. Mr. Paddock has practically disposed of his business interests, although hie retains his directorship and holdings in the Powhattan Coal and Coke Company, operating in the Pocahon- tas region of West Virginia. He is a member of the Engineers' Club of Phil- adelphia and the Masonic order ; is a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal churchi.
Mr. Paddock married, December 22, 1880, Jeannie S. Lathrop, of Coop- erstown, New York. Children : I. Winifred Lathrop. born in Delaware county, October 7, 1885 ; a graduate of the Baldwin School. Bryn Mawr. 2. Mildred, died in infancy. 3. Frederick, died in infancy. 4. Bettine Stewart, born December 6. 1893. a graduate of the Baldwin School. Bryn Mawr.
The Worth family is one of the old families of Pennsylvania
WORTH and has been located in what is now Delaware county, since the year 1682. The earliest American ancestor was Thomas (I) Worth, who came from England in the year mentioned. He was born in Eng- land in 1649 and resided in Oxford, Nottinghamshire, from whence he started for America, April 21, 1682, arriving here about four months later. He was a man of education, and among the treasures brought from his English home, was a Bible published in 1639 by Robert Barker. In this Bible he had written in clear and beautiful penmanship, his family record. He settled in Darby, later moved farther up the township, where he owned a farm. He was of higher educational attainment than liis neighbors, which fact brought his ser- vices into frequent requisition as scribe and adviser. In 1685 he married and in 1697 represented Chester county in the provincial assembly. He married Isabella Davidson, who came from Darby, England ; children : John, born June
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9. 1686, married Catherine Ormes: Thomas (2), of whom further ; Sarah, born July 28, 1691, died at the age of five years.
(Il) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( I) and Isabella (Davidson) Worth, was born in Chester, now Delaware county. Pennsylvania, January 4, 1688. Ile inherited from his father two hundred and twenty acres of farm land in Darby township and in 1738 three hundred and fifty acres in East Bradford township from the children of his brother. John Worth, this latter being a part of the estate which they received from their grandfather, Thomas (1) Worth, the emigrant. In 1749, Thomas ( 2) was commissioned a justice of the peace and of the court of common pleas, holding this office through successive re-appointments until within a few years of his death. He was a lifelong member of the Society of Friends and was buried in the churchyard of the Bradford Meeting House, 12 mo. 22, 1778. He married Mary Fawcett, born 9 mo. 25. 1697, daughter of Walter and Rebecca ( Fearne) Fawcett ; children : Samuel, of whom further ; Susannah, born January 12, 1720, died unmarried ; Lydia, born September 22, 1721, married April 19. 1744, George Carter ; Re- becca, born April 23. 1723, married in 1742, Jonathan Vernon : Hannah. born November 12, 1724. died unmarried : Ebenezer, born June 8. 1726, married in 1770, Margaret Paschall; Joseph, born July 18, 1728, died unmarried ; Mary, born September 17. 1729, married June 3, 1756, John Lewis.
(III) Samuel, eldest son of Thomas (2) and Mary (Fawcett) Worth. was born January 25. 1718, died December 31, 1781. He became a prominent farmer of West Bradford and was a leading member of the Society of Friends. He married ( first) in Birmingham Meeting, October 27. 1744. Eliza- beth, daughter of George and Elizabeth Carter, of East Bradford. He mar- ried ( second) at Bradford Meeting, April 30. 1778. Jane, widow of John Buf- fington, and daughter of Jonathan and Mary Thatcher. Children of first wife: John, of whom further : Thomas, born December 11. 1747, married Ann Buf- fington : Joseph, born March 2, 1755, died unmarried : Elizabeth, February 13, 1759. died unmarried.
(1\) John, eldest son of Samuel Worth and his first wife, Elizabeth Carter, was born October 5. 1745. died October 17, 1790. He resided in Mor- tonville and for many years owned and operated a mill there. On April 11. 1789, he was commissioned a justice of the peace and of the court of common pleas for the district composed of Pennsbury. East and West Bradford, New- lin and East Fallowfield townships. He married Mary Bentley, born Decem- ber 15. 1754. daughter of George and Jane Bentley, who survived him until December 20. 1830: children : Thomas, born April 28. 1774. married Annic Williamson : Elizabeth, born May 20, 1776, married Jacob Marshall : Ebenezer, born April 10. 1778, married Margaret Perry : Samuel, born December 6, 1779, married (first ) Sarah Armet. (second) Beulah Paschall : John (2), of whom further ; George, born January 13, 1785, married ( first ) Lydia Jeffries, (sec- ond) Martha Keech : Emnor, born March 1, 1787, married Rebecca Travilla : Benjamin, born .August 5. 1788, married Phoebe Taylor. Father, mother and all the children were members of the Society of Friends.
(V) John (2), son of John (1) and Mary (Bentley) Worth, was born in West Bradford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, about two miles south of Marshallton. June 25. 1782, died January 16, 1878. He learned the carpenter's trade, settling one-half mile south of Marshallton, later moving to a farm near Romansville, where he conducted general farming on a large scale. Ile was an influential member and elder of the Society of Friends and greatly esteemed in his community, which he represented for twenty-five years as county commissioner. He married Lydia Carpenter, born February 10, 1785.
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died October 15, 1866, daughter of William and Rachel Carpenter. John Worth continued to reside on his farm at Romansville until he died at the great age of ninety-six years and is buried in the graveyard of the Friends Meeting House at Romansville. Children : 1. William C., born December 14, 1805. He married Phoebe Romans of Romansville, residing there a few years after his marriage, then moving to a farm at Andrews Bridge ; later about 1840, to a farm on the Octoraro; children: i. John Carpenter, born October 14, 1830, married Mary Galloway. ii. George R., born July 14, 1832, never mar- ried. iii. Charles Mortimer, born July 17. 1833, never married. iv. H. Smith, born March 3, 1836, married (first) Phoebe R. Brinton, ( second) Emmeline Wilson. v. Lydia Maria, born August 13, 1838, married Samuel Holmes. vi. William Harrison, born December 19. 1840, married Louisa Boice. vii. Al- bert R., born September 18, 1843. married Letitia Bayer. viii. David R., born June 22, 1846, never married. ix. Samuel E., born August 4, 1849, married Jeavie Smith. 2. Sheshbazzar Bentley, born December 1, 1807. died in Coates- ville, Pennsylvania, November 18. 1874. a leading iron manufacturer of Coates- ville, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Sharpless, a descendant of John and Jane (Moor) Sharpless, founders of the Sharpless family of Pennsyl- vania. Children : i. John Sharpless, now president of the Worth Brothers Company of Coatesville, unmarried. ii. William Penn, secretary and treas- urer of the Worth Brothers Company, married Caroline Hallowell. 3. Rich- ard J., born December 20, 1809. He was a farmer, owning a good farm on the Octoraro creek, which he later sold in order to purchase a part of the old homestead, upon which in 1848 he built a house and barn. He married Sophia Jeffries : children : i. Bennett J., born December 21, 1838, married Margaret Joy. ii. Rachel J., born August 9, 1840, married Henry K. Harlan. iii. Lydia H .. born September 3, 1842, married (first) W. T. Marshall, (second) Abiah G. Hoopes. iv. Mary E., born October 7. 1844, married W. Garrett Taylor. v. Annie M., born December 19. 1846, married Frank W. Wetherell. vi. John R., born February 1, 1849, never married. vii. Thomas, born December 25, 1852, married Prudie Eddy. 4. Samuel Armet, of whom further. 5. Rachel Ann. born February 28, 1814, married John White. 6. John D., born March 16, 1816. He was a merchant at Embreville, then at Doe Run, later establish- ing in the lumber business at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He married Eliza- beth M. Pyle ; children : i. Margaret C., born August 4, 1856, died in infancy. ii. Herbert P., born March 2. 1861, married Caroline H. Jackson. 7. Lydia Maria, born June 26, 1818, never married. 8. Elizabeth M., born August II, 1822, married Jacob S. Wickersham : children : i. J. Howard, born April 17, 1852, never married. ii. Mary R., January 7, 1856, never married. iii. Isabel R., married Joseph P. Leedom.
John and Lydia Worth, the parents of these children, were both members of the Society of Friends, he the head of the Meeting.
(VI) Samuel Armet, son of John (2) and Lydia (Carpenter) Worth, was born at the home farm, November 20, 1811. He was educated at the Friends school for boys, kept by Jonathan Goss. He was interested in iron manufacture for many years, but always retained his love for the soil. He was manager of the Joppa Iron Works on the Gunpowder river, twelve miles from Baltimore, from 1841 to 1846. He then moved to the Martic Iron Works, seven miles from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he lived until 1851. He then moved to a farm at Romansville, Chester county : then bought a farm at Spruce Grove, Lancaster county, on which he lived from 1852 until 1868. Then he bought a forge at Deer creek. Maryland. and engaged in the iron business there about ten years. He then returned to his farm at Oxford for about three years. He retired in 1875 and moved to W'est Philadelphia, where
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he resided until his death in 1899. He was a director of a bank in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ; in politics a Whig and Republican. He married Hester Ann Hoopes of Embreville in 1840, daughter of Joshua Hoopes, a farmer and mill- er, owning a grist mill on Brandywine creek, at which he died in his ninety- seventh year. Children of Samuel A. Worth : 1. Emma Matilda, married, in 1862, Bordley S. Patterson. 2. Edward, of whom further. 3. Mary Eliza- beth, married Samuel E. Dickey.
(VII) Edward, second child and only son of Samuel Armet and Hester Ann (Hoopes) Worth, was born at the Joppa Iron Works, Maryland, of which his father was then manager, March 26, 1843. His father, in 1851, bought a grist mill and farm on the Octoraro creek, which was the home of Edward Worth until January 17, 1860, when he entered the employ of his uncle, Shesh- bazzar, who was operating rolling mills at Coatesville, Pennsylvania. He was educated in private schools and for three years attended the Union high school at Union. He served during the civil war in an emergency cavalry regiment, which service took him into the state of Virginia ; was engaged at the battle of Gettysburg, receiving a serious wound in that battle that left him with a limp as a reminder of the days of carnage, now happily past. Since 1887 Mr. Worth has been president of the Kaolin and Feldspar Company of Brandy- wine Summit, the largest concern in the country grinding feldspar exclusively. owning their own mines and operating their own mills. The original plant was started by William S. Manley, now deceased, and on March 25, 1887, was incorporated as the Brandywine Summit Kaolin and Feldspar Company, with Edward Worth, president, and Joseph P. Rogers, secretary and treasurer. When incorporated, the business of the company was washing china clay for potters' use and grinding feldspar used in the manufacture of all sorts of table- ware and fine china, etc. The clay washing department was soon discontinued and the feldspar grinding department developed to its present large propor- tions, after the discovery of the largest feldspar mine in the country near Elam, Pennsylvania, now owned by the Kaolin and Feldspar Company. The imme- diate property covers one hundred and thirteen acres with mills and railroad sidings, besides the properties at Chester Heights, of twenty-eight acres : Elam, eighteen acres ; Nottingham township. Chester county, four hundred and forty- two acres, and the Pilot property in Cecil county, Maryland, twenty-nine acres. Feldspar in its natural state is difficult to mine and extract, but the company has taken from its Elam mine or quarry, ground it into merchantable form and marketed one hundred and fifty thousand tons of this valuable mineral. They operate their mills day and night : employ on an average one hundred men and in the twenty-six years Mr. Worth has been at the head of the company, he has never had a strike or serious disagreement with his men. To the management of this valuable enterprise, Mr. Worth has given himself entirely for twenty- six years and to him is due the continuous prosperity and solid financial stand- ing of the company. He has proved a wise executive and capable business man, highly esteemed by his associates and ranking high in the commercial world. He is a member of the Episcopal church and in political faith is a Re- publican. He is interested in all that concerns the public good : is a humane, thoughtful employer and a loyal enterprising, valuable citizen of the state he risked his life to defend from the invader.
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