1. CHARLES WORTHINGTON—Born Oct. 8, 1759, “Summer Hill,” Anne Arundel Co., Md. M. B., 1782, Univ. Penna. One of the founders of the Med. and Chirurg. Faculty of Maryland ; an incorporator of the Medical Society, D. C., under its first charter. Father of Dr. N. W. Worthington, infra. Died Sept. 1o, 1836. [His grandfather, John Worthington, was the first of the family in America.] Studied medicine with Dr. James Murray, of Annapolis, Md. Was Surgeon to four barges, “Maryland Aotilla,” captured in Chesapeake Bay, 1782. Removed to Georgetown, Md., in 1783 ; lived on “Quality Hill,"corner of Prospect and Fayette Streets. One of the founders of St. John's Church, Georgetown, the second Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia. Dressed in the old style, hair en queue, knee breeches, long stockings, shoe buckles. Drove a coach and four. The first President of the Medical Society. He and Dr. Frederick May were the most influential medical men of the time in the District. At the time of the battle of Bladensburg and the burning of Washington some wounded British officers were brought to Worthington's house. He “so won the hearts of the English by his hospitality and skillful care that one of the officers presented him with a gold snuffbox.” Married Miss Elizabeth Booth, of Jamestown, Va. See Trans. Med. Soc., 75th Anniv., p. 30; Busey's Reminiscences, p. 122; Minutes Med. Society, Feb. 1, 1904; WASH. MED. ANNALS, 1905-6, IV, p. 71; Cordell, Med. Annals of Maryland, 1903, p. 632.
