Date | Event |
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1863 August 21 | William Jenner Worthington born to William Worthington and Ellen Jenner Worthington in San Francisco CA. |
1866 | His brother, Albert Isaac, born, but dies at age 4. |
1868 | His brother, Edgar Kirk, born. |
1877 | William Worthington, his father, loses fortune in an economic depression. |
1878 | Young Will, 15, leaves school to go to work to help support the family. |
1880 | Ellen Jenner Worthington and her younger son, Edgar, move to Seattle. |
1882 | Young Will follows his mother to Seattle and soon gets a job. |
mid-1880s | Will buys a trading sloop and begins to sell groceries and provisions on Hood Canal. |
late-1880s | Will and his brother Ed assist their mother in staking a claim on 160 acres of old growth timberland on the Dosewallips River in Brinnon. |
1890 | Will and Ed build and open a mercantile store "WJ Worthington Groceries and Provisions" in Quilcene. |
1892 February 4 | Will Worthington and Grace Amelia Legg marry and begin their family: |
1893 Grace | |
1894 Mariette | |
1896 William Jenner, Jr. | |
1900 Robert Edgar | |
1901 Harold Legg | |
1903 Norman Parker | |
1905 John Clinton | |
1909 Kenneth Taft | |
1903 | Will begins buying timberland in Jefferson County and real estate in Seattle. |
1907 | Will sells his mercantile store to his brother Ed Worthington. He moves his family into the large Hamilton House. He helps to establish Quilcene Union High School. |
1935 May 4 | Grace Amelia Legg Worthington dies at home. |
1936 February 28 | William Jenner Worthington dies at home. |
Ellen Worthington Jenner, September 7, 2021