WORLEY, S. T.

WORLEY, HICKS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 19:40:28

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

WORLEY, S. T., proprietor carriage factory, First street between Main and Johnson ; he manufactures and keeps constantly on hand the various styles of one and two seated phaetons, rockaways, single and double buggies, with or without tops, also manufactures all the styles of democrat and spring wagons called for in this market. Mr. Worley was born in Portsmouth, O., in 1832, where he remained until 1860, when he removed to Quincy, Ill. ; in July, 1862, he entered Co. A, 119th Ill. V. I., as 1st Lieutenant ; was promoted Captain of the same company in 1863 ; honorably discharged at the close of the war in 1865. Mr. Worley married in Portsmouth, Ohio, Miss E. J. Hicks, a native of that place ; they have nine children— Laura E., Charles M., William H., Emma, Ida, James H., Harry, Grace, Mary; Mr. Worley and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; he is Trustee and Steward in Methodist Episcopal Church ; Republican.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879