Preston County, West Virginia Biography of CLARENCE EVERETT HAWORTH This biography was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: ********************************************** ***The submitter does not have a connection*** ********to the subject of this sketch.******** ********************************************** This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 619 Preston CLARENCE EVERETT HAWORTH, vice president and pro- fessor of literature at Marshall College, is one of the most versatile men in his intellectual gifts in the state. In his early career he was a successful physician, later an editor and publisher, and outside the routine of his work at Marshall College he is nationally known as a musical composer. Doctor Haworth was born at Portland, Ohio, May 10, 1860. The Haworth family is English and for some generations lived in a hamlet of that name in the north of England. Doctor Haworth is a son of Samuel Milton and Hannah Louise Haworth. His father was a practicing physician from 1849 to 1886. Clarence Everett Haworth attended public schools at Rav- enswood, West Virginia, and finished his literary educa- tion in Colgate Academy and Colgate University, then known as Madison University, in New York State. He graduated from the Academy in 1878 and from the Uni- versity in 1882. He has also done post graduate work in the University of Chicago. He has the degrees A. B., A. M., Ph. B., while the Doctor of Medicine degree was conferred upon him by Starling Medical College at Co- lumbus in 1885. Doctor Haworth devoted himself to his general practice as a physician and surgeon from 1885 to 1895. In the latter year he bought the Huntington Herald, with James J. Peters. This joint ownership, with Doctor Haworth as editor, continued until 1897, but from 1897 to 1907 his time was fully taken up with his duties as sole owner and editor of this newspaper. In 1907 he sold the Herald, at which time he accepted appointment as vice president of Marshall College, together with the chair of literature, and his congenial tasks in this institu- tion still engage him. Doctor Haworth served as a member of the Board of Regents of West Virginia University for two terms from 1901 to 1910. He is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. As a musical composer he has pub- lished a considerable body of both secular and sacred music. He is author of the words and music of the song, "West Virginia," sacred compositions for Episcopal serv- ice including a Te Deum, Jubilate, Kyrie Eleiaon, O Dear Redeemer and others. His secular compositions include Slumber Song, Tell Me, Roses, Love Me Till I Die, At Thy Voice, At Last, Love Light, Light of Mine Eyes and others. Doctor Haworth married at Ironton, Ohio, in 1885, Miss Hattie Vinton, daughter of T. A. Vinton of Parkersburg, West Virginia. At Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, in 1903, Doctor Haworth married Louise Fay. By his first marriage he has two children, Samuel Vinton who married Mary Watsell in 1920, and James Rodgers who married Mar- guerite Whitaker in 1915. The son James R. Haworth has two children, Vinton and Elizabeth.