degree of courage and determination for the young New Eng- 

 lander to risk his fortunes in those strange and distant lands. 

 But. as with so many others, Prof. Worthen was not without 

 friends and even relatives in the distant west. His eldest 

 brother, Enoch, was then living at Cynthiana, Kentucky, where 

 he had settled and founded a family, and thither the young 

 emigrant betook himself. Whatever else the average New Eng- 

 lander may or may not be capable of doing, one thing, for 

 want of better, or rather more remunerative employment, they 

 have almost universally engaged in, in all the new countries 

 which they have helped to settle and civilize, and that is, school 

 teaching. Prof. Worthen, then a plain Yankee lad, without 

 title, was no exception to the rule, but began his western life 

 and experiences in teaching school at Cummiusville, Ohio, then 

 in the wilderness though now a suburb of her chief city, Cin- 

 cinnati. Remaining here two winters, in June, 1836, he took 

 his wife and infant son to Warsaw, Illinois, where he made his 

 permanent home. Here he has done his life's work, and hence 

 he has entered into (well earned) rest. Meanwhile his wife's 

 family (the Kimballs) had also emigrated to the west, making 

 their home on Bear Creek, in Hancock county, and with his 

 brothers-in-law, the Kimball boys, or one of them, Prof. Wor- 

 then became first a forwarding and commission merchant, oc- 

 cupying and residing in the warehouse and dwelling standing 

 on the site now occupied by the mill of the Warsaw Milling 

 Company, known as Grace mills, later occupying the brick cot- 

 tage which he built, and conducting a dry goods business upon 

 the hill at Warsaw. In 1842, influenced by the depression in 

 business caused by the Mormon difficulties in Hancock county, 

 he removed with his family to Charlestown, Mass., and here his 

 son. Amos Henry Jr., was born. He was probably influenced 

 in his second removal (that from Ohio) to select Warsaw as 

 his future home, by the fact that his wife's family had selected 

 this region as their western home, but had his predilections for 

 the life of a naturalist been known and their stimulation an- 

 ticipated, no region could have been selected better calculated 

 to awaken and sustain the enthusiasm of a naturalist. As 

 stated by himself on page 89 of his first volume of Reports 

 upon Geology of Illinois: "A fine section of the geode bed is 

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