Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Worthington, Aaron M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Plumstead Township


   AARON M. WORTHINGTON farmer and drover, P.O. 
Fountainville, is a grandson of Jonathan Worthington, who 
was a resident of Doylestown township, where he died about 
sixty years ago.  His son, Caphas, the father of Aaron M., 
was born in 1785, and died May 12, 1867.  He removed to this 
township over sixty years ago, settling on a farm adjoining 
Aaron's.  A few years before his death he sold this farm and 
lived with Aaron until he died.  He was a  man of good 
character and reputation.  His wife was Elizabeth Hendricks. 
 She died Apri 23, 1844, aged 53.  Their children were:  
William, living in Solebury township; Jane, widow of Thomas 
Dyer, living in Hartsville; Charles, who died at the age of 
15 years; and Aaron M., who was born October 17, 1819, in 
New Britain township.  He lived with his father until his 
marriage, when he rented a farm for three years, and in 1848 
bought the place where he now lives, which was known as the 
Ferguson farm, containing one hundred and forty-eight acres. 
 Mr. Worthington has been for nearly forty years engaged in 
buying and selling cattle, horses, sheep, etc.  December 5, 
1840, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of George 
Michener.  She was born in Plumstead township, June 15, 
1821.  To this union ten children have been born:  Charles 
and Z. Taylor, who are farming their father's place; William 
Henry, a commission agent in Dublin; Thomas D., on a farm 
near his birthplace; Mary Jane, wife of Anson Michener, in 
Buckingham township; R. Thornton, on a farm near by; Anna, 
married to Levi Gross, in Illinois; Isabella, wife of John 
G. King, of New Britain township; Cephas M., in charge of 
the Friends' meeting-house and property, in this township; 
and Daniel Smith, who died young.  Mr. Worthington is an 
industrious man and has accumulated a good property, and by 
his upright conduct has won the esteem of all who know him.