Haworth, George D.

HAWORTH

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GEORGE D. HAWORTH
born Dec 10, 1835, Indiana

George D. Haworth, Palmyra township, Warren county, Iowa. - The Haworth family are numbered among the earliest settlers of this region of Iowa. Samuel Haworth, the father of George D., came out here as early as 1846, the date of his arrival being June 6, and on South river in Warren county he selected his place of location. He was a native of Tennessee, born in the year 1797, and when a young man left his native State and removed to Ohio. He made his home in Ohio and Indiana until his removal to Iowa, as above stated. Only a short time before his settlement here this land had been purchased from the Indians and many of the Red men were still in this vicinity. Subsequently, when the survey was made, Mr. Haworth and the other settlers who had taken claims about the same time, had their claims rearranged and adjusted satisfactorily and secured title to the same. Here they built their cabins, set about the work of reclaiming the wild country, and by their rugged self-sacrificing lives paved the way for advanced civilization. In those early days the settlers of this community were obliged to go 100 miles to mill, over into what is now Washington county. Mr Haworth was one of the most active and public-spirited men of the pioneer settlement. He assisted in organizing the county, and was School Fund Commissioner as long as that system of management of the school interests maintained, having charge of the sale of school lands among his other duties. Here he lived until 1868, when he died, at the age of seventy-one years. He was, in politics, a Henry Clay Whig, strong and earnest in his convictions; and his religious belief was that of the Society of Friends, of which he was all his life a stanch and active member. His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Haines, was a daughter of John and Lydia Haines. The Haines family were natives of North Carolina, emigrated from that State to Ohio in 1811, where the parents spent the rest of their lives, each dying at a good old age. Mrs. Haworth was born in 1800, and at the time of her death was well along in years. George Haworth, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia in the year 1750, and while yet a young man removed with his family to Tennessee, a few years later, in 1803, located in Ohio, and finally moved over into Indiana, where he died, in 1837, at the age of eighty-seven. He was a pioneer in four States, a millwright and stock man, a noted hunter, and a hardy frontiersman. To such men is this country indebted for the early progress it made. Tracing Mr. Haworth's ancestry back still further, we find that his great-grandfather, James Haworth, was a native of Pennsylvania, born at an early period in the history of that State, and that his (James Haworth's) grandfather was a native of England, who came over to America in the year 1698, settling in Pennsylvania and establishing there the American branch of the Haworth family, which today is spread all over this broad land. In England the ancestry can be traced back to the twelfth century.
George D. Haworth, the immediate subject of this review, is one of a family of nine, four of whom are still living, the other three being Jeremiah, Lydia, and John H. George D. was born in Vermillion county, Indiana, December 10, 1835, and at the time the family removed to Iowa, as above recorded, he was a boy of ten years. Reared on the frontier, his educational advantages were not as a matter of course, of the best. The log house in which he attended school had oiled paper for window lights, and its furnishings were of the most primitive kind. At the age of twenty-three he left the parental home and started out in life on his own responsibility, engaging in farming and making a specialty of buying and raising stock. For years he was an extensive shipper of stock to the Chicago market. Mr. Haworth was married March 21, 1861, to Miss Anna M. Doane, a native of Indiana and a daughter of William and Sophia Doane, she being one of their family of three. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick. Mr. Haworth has always given his support to the Republican party, taking an intelligent and enthusiastic interest in public affairs. He is well known and is honored and esteemed for his many sterling qualities. Source: A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1896, vol.1, p.260