Author: Worth, Gorham A.
Biography:
WORTH, Gorham A. (1782-1856: ancestry.com)
Gorham Akin Worth was born in Quaker Hill NY, the son of Thomas Worth and his third wife, Ann Akin or Aikin, and moved with the family to Hudson NY about 1798. He became a bank clerk, first in Hudson and Albany and then in Cincinnati OH, where he was made Cashier of a branch of the United States Bank and built a grand house that is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He must have arrived in Cincinnati in 1816, for he published a nine-page poem there to celebrate New-Year's Day 1817. He stayed, according to later Recollections of Cincinnati (1851), until 1821. In Hudson, probably shortly before his departure in 1816, he married Lydia Dakin (1793-1861); they had six children who survived their father. On his return east he rose to the position of President of the City Bank in New York from 1843 until his death. He died at home of "inflammation of the lungs" after a short illness, and was buried, as was his wife after him, in the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands NY. They appear to have been members of the Dutch Reformed Church. Other autobiographical writings from his later years are Random Recollections of Albany: from 1800 to 1808 (1849) and Recollections of Albany and Hudson (1850). (ancestry.com 11 Mar. 2021; Albany Evening Journal 4 Apr. 1856; "Publisher's Note," Random Recollections of Albany [1866]; Gorham A. Worth," Wikipedia 11 Mar. 2021) HJ
Other Names:
- G. A. Worth