Perry James Worden (1866 - 1945)

Born 25 May 1866 in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York

Ancestors

Died 20 Mar 1945 at age 78 in Altadena, Los Angeles County, California

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Biography

Source 1: Name: Perry J. Worden Age: 14 Birth Year: abt 1866 Birthplace: New York Home in 1880: Hastings-On-Hudson, Westchester, New York Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Son Marital Status: Single Father's Name: Amos Worden Father's Birthplace: New York Mother's name: Mary Worden Mother's Birthplace: Nova Scotia Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: At School Cannot read/write:

Household Members: Name Age Amos Worden 49 Mary Worden 46 George M. Worden 18 Perry J. Worden 14 Alice G. Worden 8

Source 2: Perry Worden View 1920 United States Federal Census

Name: Perry Worden Age: 53 Birth Year: abt 1867 Birthplace: New York Home in 1920: Pasadena, Los Angeles, California Street: Buckeye House Number: 411 Residence Date: 1920 Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Effie Josephine Worden Father's Birthplace: New York Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut Able to Speak English: Yes Occupation: Author And Lecturer Employment Field: Own Account Home Owned or Rented: Rent Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Perry Worden 53 Effie Josephine Worden 36

Source 3: J. Perry Worden has sailed for Europe by steamship Nebraska for a tour of the Continent by bicycle expecting to be absent four months. From Dobbs Ferry NY Greenburgh Register 1892-1893.

Source 4: Mr. J. Perry Worden, the well known literary man and lecturer, has returned from Germany for a brief visit to his home here. From the Dobbs Ferry Register, Hastings-on-Hudson, Sept. 7, 1900.

Source 5: Perry J. Worden Birth: May 25, 1866 Hastings-on-Hudson Westchester County New York, USA Death: Mar. 20, 1945 Los Angeles Los Angeles County California, USA

Family links: Parents: Amos Warren Worden (1831 - 1908) Mary Worden (1835 - 1898)

Siblings: George Minturn Worden (1862 - 1897)* Perry J. Worden (1866 - 1945) Alice Graham Worden (1872 - 1929)*

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Burial: Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum Altadena Los Angeles County California, USA Plot: Pasadena Mausoleum, Columbarium

Created by: Romper90069 Record added: Apr 05, 2017 Find A Grave Memorial# 178134760

Source 6: J. Perry Worden, American author, lecturer. Background

Worden, J. Perry was born on May 25, 1866 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States. Son of of Amos Warren and Mary (Welch) W. Education

Brother Alice Graham Worden, educator (died 1929). Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1895. Studied Germanics, Columbia, 1895-1896.

Student philology and literature, university of Leyden and Halle-Saale, and at Sorbonne, 1896-1900. Doctor of Philosophy., Halle, 1900. Research, English and German universities, 1907-1910.

Career

Reporter, special correspondent New York Sun and New York Tribune, 1888-1892. Sent to Europe as cycling tourist by Outing Magazine, 1892. Since then, on repeated tours abroad, often with bicycle and camera.

Lecturer for New York Board of Education 5 years, for university extension, in America, England and Germany, 12 years. Instructor in modern langs. various instns., 6 years. In charge German Department, University of Maine, summer session, 1905.

Professor modern langs., Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, 1905-1907. American consul, Bristol, England, 1907-1909. Traveler, particularly in Western America, since 1911.

Was for several years Germanic reviewer for The Nation, and Berlin literature correspondent New York Times’ Saturday Book Review.

Works

Authors’ League America.

Politics

Party affiliation: Republican Religion

Denomination: Episcopalian Membership Member.; Club: Gamut. Member History Society Southern California, and San Diego and Pasadena history societies Has placed, at own expense, “Worden Memorial,” Mount Hope (New York) Cemetery, and numerous tablets and other literature, history memorials of America-European associations, in museums and libraries at Stratford-on-Avon, Bristol, London, Windsor, Heidelberg, Weimar, Berlin, Halle-Saale, Bonn, Leipzig, Vienna, New York, Boston and elsewhere, especially in California.

Connections

Married Effie Josephine Fussell, 1916. spouse: Effie Josephine Fussell

Sources

1. US Federal Census 1880. http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&indiv=try&h=39492307

2. US Federal Census 1920. http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=JhJ220&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&db=1920usfedcen&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Perry&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Worden&gsln_x=0&msbdy=1866&msbdy_x=1&msbdp=2&MSAV=1&uidh=9m5&pcat=35&fh=0&h=5273284&recoff=&ml_rpos=1

3. Dobbs Ferry, NY Register Notes.

4. Dobbs Ferry, NY Register Notes.

5. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=178134760

6. http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=1083856