When Lovina Worthington was born in 1846, in Milford Township, Defiance, Ohio, United States, her father, Samuel Worthington, was 26 and her mother, Maxanna Green, was 23. She died in September 1879, in Defiance, Ohio, United States, at the age of 33.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire and Leicestershire named Worthington. The placenames probably derive from an Old English personal name Weorth + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: Nicholas Worthington emigrated from England to Old Saybrook, CT, c. 1650.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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