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Rh Free library, to the establishment of which he contributed liberally, as he has also to McGill university and to many other public institutions in Montreal. Mr. Workman was unanimously elected to the Dominion parliament in 1867 for Montreal centre, and declined renomination, but was again elected in 1875 for Montreal west.

WORMAN, James Henry, author, b. in Prussia, 28 Feb., 1835. He was educated at the University of Berlin and at the Sorbonne, Paris, taking his degree in both institutions in 1864, came to the United States in 1865, and became professor of modern languages in Knox college, Galesburg, Ill. In 1867 he was appointed librarian and instructor in Drew theological seminary, Madison, N. J., and on the death of Dr. John McClintock he became one of the editors of &ldquo;McClintock and Strong's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.&rdquo; He was a teacher in Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1877 till 1883, and then a professor in Vanderbilt university till 1886. He officiated at the same time as professor in Chautauqua university from 1878 till 1885, and since that date has been director of the Southern Chautauqua and Round Lake branch. In 1886 he edited the &ldquo;Saratogian,&rdquo; and since 1887 he has been editor of &ldquo;Outing.&rdquo; Dr. Worman published a school-book on universal history before coming to this country (Berlin, 1862), and has since published many books for language instruction. He was the first to introduce the method of writing books of instruction entirely in the language to be learned, interpreting the meaning by means of illustrations, and has applied it to German, French, Spanish, and Latin.

WORMELEY, Mary Elizabeth, author, b. in London, England, 26 July, 1822. Her father, Admiral Ralph Randolph Wormeley, of the British navy, a native of Virginia (1785-1852), had for some time preceding his death resided in Boston, Mass., and was grandson, on the mother's side, of Attorney-General John Randolph. Her mother was a niece of Com. Edward Preble, U. S. navy. The daughter resided several years in Newport, R. I., and, after gaining a reputation as a writer, married Randolph Latimer, of Baltimore. She has contributed to magazines, and published &ldquo;Forest Hill: a Tale of Social Life in 1830-'1&rdquo; (3 vols., London, 1846); &ldquo;Amabel, a Family History&rdquo; (New York, 1853); &ldquo;Our Cousin Veronica&rdquo; (1856); and &ldquo;Familiar Talks on Some of Shakespeare's Comedies&rdquo; (Boston, 1887); also translations of Louis Ulbach's &ldquo;Madame Gosselin&rdquo; (New York, 1878); &ldquo;The Steel Hammer&rdquo; (1888); and &ldquo;For Fifteen Years&rdquo; (1888).—Her sister, Katharine Prescott, author, b. in Suffolk, England, 14 July, 1832, took an active interest in the relief of the National soldiers during the civil war, and published &ldquo;The U. S. Sanitary Commission&rdquo; (Boston, 1863). A volume of her letters from the headquarters of the U. S. sanitary commission with the Army of the Potomac during the peninsular campaign in 1862 has been published by the Massachusetts commandery of the Loyal legion under the title of &ldquo;The Other Side of War&rdquo; (1888). She is best known as the American translator of Honoré de Balzac's novels, of which thirteen volumes have been issued (Boston, 1886-'9), among which the &ldquo;Magic Skin,&rdquo; &ldquo;Louis Lambert,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Séraphita,&rdquo; have introductions by George Frederic Parsons.—Another sister, Ariana Randolph, b. in Suffolk, England, 14 Oct., 1835, married Daniel Sargent Curtis, of Boston. She has published a comedy entitled &ldquo;The Coming Woman, or the Spirit of '76&rdquo; (Boston, 1870), that has been acted in public and private both in the United States and in Europe.

WORMLEY, Theodore George, chemist, b. in Wormleysburg, Pa., 1 April, 1826. He was educated at Dickinson college, but left without graduation to study medicine, and in 1849 received his degree at the Philadelphia medical college. In 1852 he was called to the chair of chemistry and natural sciences at Capital university, Columbus, Ohio, which he held until 1865, and was also professor of chemistry and toxicology in Starling medical college in 1854-'77. On the resignation of Prof. Robert E. Rogers in 1877, he was called to the chair of chemistry and toxicology in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, which place he still holds. During 1867-'75 he was state gas commissioner of Ohio, and in 1867-74 he was chemist to the Ohio geological survey. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by Dickinson college, and that of LL. D. by Marietta, both in 1870. He is a member of the American philosophical society, a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a member of other societies. Prof. Wormley was appointed a member of the Centennial medical commission, having in charge the arrangements for the International medical congress of 1876, and was a delegate therefrom to the International medical congress at Philadelphia in September, 1876. He delivered an address before that body on " Medical Chemistry and Toxicology." In 1862-'4 he edited the "Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal," and he published in the "Chemical News" of London a series of papers on the "Chemical Reactions of Strychnine" (1859); "Atropine," "Brucine," "Morphia," "Narcotine and Meconic Acid," "Corrosive Sublimate," "Veratrine" (1860); "Nicotine and Daturine," "Solanine," "Codeine, Meconine, Narceine, and Aconitine" (1861); "Conine" (1862); and "Oxalic Acid" (1863). Prof. Wormley is the author of "Methods of Analysis of Coals, Iron Ores, Furnace Slags, Fire Clays, Limestones, and of Soils" (1870), has contributed reports to the "Geological Survey of Ohio" (Columbus, 1871), and has also published "The Micro-Chemistry of Poisons" (New York, 1867).

WORTH, Jonathan, governor of North Carolina, b. in Guilford county, N. ft, 18 Nov., 1802; d. in Raleigh, N. ft, 5 Sept., 1869. He was educated at the common schools and at Greensborough academy, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1825. He soon afterward settled at Asheborough, Randolph co., and engaged in practice. He was a member of the North Carolina legislature in 1829-'34, and during the height of the nullification excitement introduced in 1831 a resolution into the house of commons of the state denouncing it in the strongest terms. He was also for several terms a member of the state senate, and opposed secession both in the legislature and in appeals to his constituents : but after his state had seceded he gave his adhesion to the Confederate government. He was a member of the lower house of the legislature from 1862 till the end of the war, and was public treasurer of the state during the same period. When a provisional government was organized in North Carolina by President Johnson, Mr. Worth was reappointed state treasurer, which post he resigned soon afterward, and became a candidate for governor. He was elected and served from 1865 till 1868, when the existing state government was superseded by the one that was organized under the reconstruction act of congress.

WORTH, William Jenkins, soldier, b. in Hudson, N. Y.. 1 March, 1794; d. in San Antonio, Tex., 17 May, 1849. He was of Quaker ancestry, and of a family that produced -many well-known men,