From the History of Clinton
County, Ohio,
Its People, Industries
and Institutions
With Biographical Sketches of
Representative Citizens
And Genealogical Records of
Many of the Old Families
Albert J.
Brown, A. M.
FRANK W. HAWORTH
The Haworth family in Clinton county dates from about
the last year of the eighteenth century and for more than one hundred years,
therefore, has been prominent in almost every phase of life in this county.
Frank W. Haworth, a well-to-do farmer of Union township, is a representative
probably of the fifth generation of the family in this county. He is recognized
today as one of the leading citizens of Union township, and is a capable and
skillful farmer. The founders of the Haworth family in America were members of
the Society of Friends, who accompanied William Penn to this country, and the
religion of the fathers has prevailed down to the latest generation.
Frank W. Haworth was born on the farm where he now lives,
situated on the Prairie road in Union township, Clinton County, Ohio, May 6,
1864, the son of George D., Jr., and Rebecca L. (Hogue) Haworth, the former of
whom was born on April 19, 1828, in Wilmington and who died on April 19, 1895,
and the latter of whom was born in 1832, in the Dover neighborhood of Union
township, and who died on May 15, 1903.
George
Haworth, who established the Haworth family in Clinton County, was the grandson
of another George Haworth, who came to America with William Penn from
Lancashire, England, in 1699. George Haworth’s father was James Haworth, the son
of the first George, a native of Pennsylvania, but who removed to Frederick
County, Virginia, where the second George also removed as a lad. He was born in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1748. He married Susannah Dillon. The family
settled near Winchester, Virginia. Later they immigrated to the region of the
Yadkin River, in North Carolina, near the home of Daniel Boone. On September 25,
1771, the family followed Boone into Kentucky. The first attempt to settle in
Kentucky was repelled by the Indians, after which a temporary settlement was
made in Tennessee. After numerous excursions to North Carolina from Greenville,
Tennessee, they left their home in that state for Ohio, in 1803, and made a
settlement on Todd’s fork not far from the Center meeting house.
Mr. Haworth bought seventeen hundred and fifty acres of land. A year later his
son, Mahlon, brought his family from Tennessee and settled on a nearby farm.
After some years several members of the family immigrated to the state of
Illinois and George Haworth himself sold out and removed with his two youngest
sons to Quaker Point, near Georgetown, in Vermillion County. George Haworth was
a member of the Society of Friends and in later years a minister. About 1807, or
1808, he traveled on horseback to Baltimore to attend the yearly meeting as a
representative from the Miami quarterly meeting.
In 1800 Mahlon Haworth, the son of George Haworth, who
settled on Todd's fork in 1803, visited Ohio on a prospecting tour and in 1804
he and his family, in company with John and James Wright and their families,
made their way northward from Tennessee to the wilderness of southern Ohio. On
the trip northward Mahlon Haworth rode the wheelhorse, carrying an infant in his
arms. This child, then two years old, was his daughter, Susannah. There were
also three other children older than she, Rebecca, George D., and Ezekiel.
George
D. Haworth, the son of Mahlon Haworth, was the grandfather of Frank W., the
subject of this sketch. His mother was Phebe Frazier. At the time the family
came to Ohio he was seven years old, having been born in Greene County,
Tennessee, May 29, 1797. He died in Wilmington,
on June 27, 1881, at the age of eighty-four years and twenty-nine days. His
early years were spent in assisting his father in the forest to open the land
for cultivation. In 1815 he accompanied his grandfather, the first George,
to Detroit to collect for a drove of hogs which he had sold in 1811. In 1817
George D. Haworth was married to Edith Hadley, the daughter of James and Ann
Hadley of Newberry, Clinton County. They settled on a farm adjoining his
father's on the east. In 1822 he was elected collector of state revenue and
county levy and for the first year received for his compensation fifty-four
dollars. The next year he received seventy dollars. He continued in the
discharge of the duties of this office for a period of twenty years. In 1824 he
sold his farm and settled in Wilmington, where he entered into partnership with
a Mr. Fife under the firm name of Fife & Haworth. Later he entered into business
on his own responsibility. He took great delight in raising cattle and was the
first to import into the county the Shorthorn cattle, about 1835. For some time
he was in partnership with Isaiah Morris in buying and selling land. His devoted
wife died in April, 1851, and in 1858 he was married to Sarah Clark of Richmond,
Indiana, the daughter of Samuel Stubbs, an early pioneer from the state of
Georgia.
George D. and Edith (Hadley) Haworth had eight children,
the three eldest of whom died in early childhood: Mary married Samuel R. Glass;
Caroline E. married Robert D. Harland; George D. Jr. was the father of Frank W.;
James Mahlon was a government inspector of Indian affairs; and Edith Emma
married Laming R. Moody, of Wilmington. George D. Haworth survived his second
wife but two days. After four days’ illness he died on June 29, 1881. His
remains were laid at rest in the Dover cemetery.
George
D. Haworth, Jr., grew up in Wilmington, but early in life immigrated to Ft.
Scott, Kansas, where he made a great deal of money in trading with the Osage
Indians. He inherited a part of the farm where his son, Frank W., now lives in
Union township and added more to it until he owned one hundred and sixty acres.
In 1874 he built a fine brick house on his place in which his son now lives. His
wife, Rebecca L. Hogue, was the daughter of Asa Hogue, who came with his parents
from Virginia to Clinton County in early days. Asa Hogue became a merchant in
Wilmington and in 1846 operated a large store at the corner of Locust and South
streets, where the Citizens National Bank is now situated. All of the members of
his family were Quakers and he was the head of the Wilmington meeting for many
years. His wife died when their daughter, Rebecca L. Hogue, was only one week
old and he never remarried. Rebecca
L. (Hogue) Haworth had one sister who died when small, but she was the only
child who grew to maturity. George D. Haworth, Jr., was a prominent Republican
in Clinton County and served as commissioner for some time, filling the office
with rare credit and efficiency. He also was township trustee of Union township.
Both he and his wife were elders in the Wilmington meeting of the Friends church
and strict in their religious belief. He was a very successful farmer and made
great progress with Poland China hogs. George D., Jr., and Rebecca L. (Hogue)
Haworth had four children, of whom Frank W. was the third born. The others were:
Laura, who married J. W. Sparks, a banker and merchant of Wilmington; James B.,
who is state agent for a plow company at Des Moines. Iowa; and George D., who is
proprietor of Sparks Hardware Company of Wilmington.
Frank W. Haworth grew up on his father’s farm in Union
township and after his father’s death purchased the home place, where he now
lives.
Frank W. Haworth was married on April 28, 1898, to Emma
Curl, a native of Union township, the daughter of Anthony and Mary Curl, both of
whom are deceased. To this marriage three children have been born: Louise, born
on October 30, 1899, is attending high school; Ruth Olive, February 18, 1900;
and Helen, March 8, 1903. Mrs. Haworth died on April 25, 1912.
Frank W. Haworth is not only a prosperous farmer, but he
is a well-known citizen. He and his family belong to the Friends church. His
wife was also a member. He is a Republican, and is deeply interested in the
educational progress of his county. Mr. Haworth is a worthy descendant of those
noble men who had so much to do with the early development of this county.
Note: (added by
Donald R. Hayworth)
1.
Frank
White Haworth is descended from George Haworth the Emigrant through his son
James Haworth as follows: Frank White Haworth
à
George Dillon Haworth & Rebecca Lupton Hogue
à
George Dillon Haworth & Edith Hadley
àMahlon
Haworth & Phoebe Frazier
à
George Haworth & Susannah Dillon
à
James Haworth & Sarah Wood
à
George Haworth & Sarah Scarborough.