Clinton County Ohio - Biographies of Five Haworth Men
Charles L. Haworth, Elijah Marmaduke Haworth, Frank W. Haworth
Isaiah Morris Haworth, and Odos L. Haworth
PREFACE TO HISTORY OF CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO
In 1915, B. F. Bowen & Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, published a detailed
“History of Clinton County, Ohio, with two subtitles:
“Its People, Industries and Institutions”; and,
“With Biographical Sketches of
Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families”.
Albert J. Brown was the Supervising Editor of this remarkable publication.
Five of the “representative citizens” whose biographies and genealogical records
are featured in this history were fifth and sixth generation descendants of
James Haworth, son of George Haworth the Emigrant. These five gentlemen are:
Odos L. Haworth, sixth generation; Frank White Haworth, sixth generation; Elijah
Marmaduke Haworth, fifth generation; Isaiah Morris Haworth, fifth generation,
and Charles L. Haworth, sixth generation descendant of both James Haworth and
his brother Absalom Haworth.
These biographies include far more genealogical information on both paternal and
maternal lines than most biographies. Several of the biographies repeat details
provided by Samuel Haworth of Thorntown, Indiana, in the paper he presented at
the 1899 Haworth Reunion, but much new genealogical information is also
provided. These biographies are included herein to make them readily available
to interested direct descendants.
It is interesting to note, that four of these men are descendants of James
Haworth’s son George Haworth and Susannah (Dillon) Haworth. As noted in these
biographies, this
George Haworth and his brother, James, accompanied
Daniel Boone on his second visit to Kentucky, their families being two of the
six families making up the party that attempted the first settlement of Kentucky
and were repulsed by hostile Indians. (See “Daniel Boone - James travels with
…”)
It is also interesting to note that it was Mahlon
Haworth, son of George Haworth and Susannah (Dillon) Haworth, who led the
expedition into Ohio in 1804 that included the widowed Jemima (Haworth) Wright
and her large family of children who all bore given names beginning with the
letter “J”. Note that in 1804
the widow Jemima
(Haworth) Wright was 59 years old and her children ranged in age from Jesse
Wright, the oldest at 35, to twins Joab and Joel Wright, the youngest at 15. The
author of “Fair America” was either unaware of the actual ages of Jemima and her
children or made liberal use of “artistic license”
to portray the family as much younger than they were at the time of the
trek to Ohio. (See “Daniel Boone – James travels with” … then click on
“Jemima - a reading” ...
click on name to open the biography
