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George Worthington (September 21, 1813 – November 9, 1871) was a 19th-century merchant and banker in Cleveland, Ohio, who founded the Geo. Worthington Company, a wholesale hardware and industrial distribution firm, in 1829 (until 1991 Cleveland's oldest extant business), as well as numerous banking and mining concerns, and contributed to the early commercial and industrial development of Cleveland. ==Early life and family== George Worthington was born in Cooperstown, New York, to Clarissa (née Clarke) and Ralph Worthington, a banker and manufacturer, who had moved to Cooperstown from his birthplace of Colchester, Connecticut, at a young age. Worthington was also second cousins with the American engineer Henry Rossiter Worthington of New York. The Worthington family had resided in Connecticut ever since Ralph Worthington's great-great-great grandfather, Nicholas Worthington, Esq., a Royalist during the English Civil War. Nicholas had fled England in 1649, when King Charles I had been beheaded and Oliver Cromwell had confiscated his family lands, to settle in Saybrook, Connecticut, as one of the colony's founders.There is only circumstantial evidence that Nicholas held lands in England, as he was not the head of the Worthington family in Lancashire, England. George, like his father, left home at an early age and commenced his business career in Utica, New York in 1830, by entering the hardware store of James Sayers. There, he remained four years when, having acquired a thorough knowledge of the business, he moved to Cleveland, where he established himself in business in 1835. Cleveland at that time was but a village with a population of about seven hundred. On November 16, 1840, Worthington married Maria Cushman Blackmar, and soon after, moved into his newly constructed home on Euclid Avenue, the street which would, in the second half of the 19th century, come to be known as Millionaire's Row. Maria C. Worthington had eight children; five girls and three boys, one of each dying in infancy, leaving his two sons, Ralph and his younger brother, George Jr., to inherit their father's business interests upon his death in 1871. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Worthington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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