Bio of Southworth, A. D. (b.1829) Wabasha Co., MN
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Southworth, A. D. (page 1171), insurance, office on south side Main
street, between Alleghaney and Church streets. This business was
established in 1872, by Mr. Southworth. The fire protection represented by
him aggregates fifty-eight million six hundred and forty-nine thousand two
hundred and sixty-three dollars, and includes the leading companies in
Great Britain and America. The assets of the life insurance companies for
which he is agent are placed at one hundred and thirteen million three
hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and six dollars. Mr. Southworth
was born in Oneida county, New York, August 13, 1829, and was variously
employed, working on the farm, attending and teaching school, etc., until
1853, when he removed to Illinois and for two years was employed on the
survey and construction of the Illinois Central railway. In 1855 he
removed to Lodi, Illinois, and was engaged in surveying and real estate
until 1862, when he was appointed deputy collector and inspector of
liquors for the seventh internal revenue district of Illinois. This
position Mr. Southworth held until 1870, when he removed to Wabasha
county, and settled on a tract of thirteen acres, which he had purchased
within the corporation of the city of Wabasha, in what is known as the
west side. This property had been added to from time to time, until it now
embraces a tract of one hundred and forty acres of richly productive land,
the meadows yielding this season three and a half tons per acre for the
first cutting, and his potato and oat fields giving promise of an abundant
crop. In addition to the home farm, Mr. Southworth owns three hundred and
twenty acres of bottom land just across the river in Wisconsin, and a farm
of two hundred acres over on the Zumbro, in Wabasha county. Two years
after coming to this city, Mr. Southworth, in connection with W. F.
Florer, established the exchange bank of A. D. Southworth & Co., for
particulars concerning which see article on "banks." Mr. Southworth was
married in 1857, and one daughter, Miss Mary L. Southworth, the child of
that marriage, is now attending school at Wellesley, Massachusetts. Mrs.
Southworth dying in 1864, Mr. Southworth remarried the following year. Two
children of this second marriage survive: George A. and Cornelia H. Mr.
Southworth's family residence is in a beautiful spot on the high bank of
the Mississippi, about a mile from the business center of the city, and
commands a magnificent view of river scenery, from the outlet of Lake
Pepin to Alma, ten miles below, on the Wisconsin shore.