Worth, Jonathan

Life Span
to
Full name
Jonathan Worth
Place of Birth
Guilford County, NC
Burial Place
Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
8
Family
David Worth (father), Eunice Gardner Worth (mother), Martitia Daniel (wife)
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Church or Religious Denomination
Quakers (Society of Friends)
Political Parties
Democratic
Whig
Government
Governor
Other state government
Date Event
The war crimes trial of the commander of North Carolina's Salisbury Prison Camp begins in Raleigh
- North Carolina Freedmen hold a four-day convention in Raleigh
In Raleigh, the North Carolina legislature rejects the Fourteenth Amendment by a large margin.
Reconstruction
Date Title
Jonathan Worth, Address to the North Carolina Freedmen's Convention, Raleigh, North Carolina, October 3, 1866
Date Title
Edmund Cooper to Governor Jonathan Worth, Washington DC, April 21, 1866
How to Cite This Page: "Worth, Jonathan," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/45336.