T. WORTHINGTON
T. Worthington, proprietor of the leading bakery and restaurant of Lewis, opened business here in June, 1881, at his present stand. He keeps on hand a fine and complete line of canned goods, confectionery, cigars, tobacco and everything usually found in a first-class establishment of that kind. He was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1830, and is a son of Seth and Cynthia (Good) Worthington, both of whom were natives of Germany. They are now deceased. Mr. Worthington lived in Pennsylvania till nineteen years of age, then moved to Ohio and engaged in a brewery in Columbus. He remained there one and a half years, then went to Keokuk, Iowa, and there engaged in a carriage making establishment, having learned that trade in Philadelphia. From Keokuk he went to Grinnell in the same State, where he was in the livery business for a number of years, after which he opened a carriage shop which business he carried on until the date of his coming to Cass county. He owns his store building and is doing a prosperous business. He was married in Warren, Lee county, Iowa, in October, 1854, to Sarah C. Harris. They have four children---Mary A., Susan F., Carrie B. and Nellie M. Mr. Worthington is a member of the board of trustees of Lewis, also belongs to the I. O. O. F., the A. O. U. W. and the I. L. H.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 539.
