Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Worthing, W A 1842 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1882

W. A. Worthing, banking, Minooka, the proprietor and founder of the Exchange 
Bank at Minooka, was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1842, and removed with his 
parents to Kendall County, Ill., the year of his birth, and remained there 
until his location in Minooka, in the spring of 1866, where he has since 
resided. His father was Solon Worthing, whose father was a minister. The 
Worthing family trace their ancestry to England, from which place their 
progenitors emigrated at an early day, locating in the Eastern States. Solon 
Worthing, the father of our subject, was a native of New Hampshire and a 
farmer by occupation, to which vocation our subject was raised; he received 
the advantages afforded at the common district schools, and took a course at 
Oberlin College, where he graduated in the Commercial Department. Soon after 
his coming to Minooka, he engaged in the hardware business, and continued that 
business for fourteen years, and during this time was associated with several 
different parties in the business; he has 160 acres of land in Kendall County, 
and sixty-five acres in the corporation of Minooka. In the spring of 1880, he 
stated the Exchange Bank at this place, and has since given it his especial 
attention, and is doing a good business, the bank being a great accommodation 
to the business men and farmers of the surrounding country, collections being 
attended to and remittances made promptly. In connection with his bank, he 
deals in agricultural implements, and does a good insurance business, 
representing some of the best companies, such as the Aetna, Hartford, Phoenix, 
Springfield, Mass., etc. He is also identified with the M. E. Church at this 
place; has been a member twenty-five years; also a Sunday school worker, and 
has been Superintendent of the school here several years. In the fall of 1864, 
he married Mary E. Avery, of Pittsfield, Lorain Co., Ohio, daughter of Carlos 
Avery.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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