Dr. David Mitchell Whitworth

DR. DAVID M. WHITWORTH was born in Overton county, Tennessee, on the 28th day of September, 1826, and lived there until his removal to Jasper county, Missouri. His father, Thomas, and his mother, Judith (Weatherford), Whitworth, were both natives of Henry county, Virginia, of English-Scotch descent. Dr. Whitworth’s grandfather, John W. Whitworth, served throughout the war of the American Revolution as a soldier under General Greene and other prominent American officers; and his father served throughout the war of 1812. David M. Whitworth attended school in middle Tennessee and later was graduated as a physician at Nashville Medical College, in Tennessee, and afterwards took a course in the St. Louis Medical College. He practiced his profession in Tennessee until the year 1867, when he removed to Jasper county, Missouri, locating on a farm one mile west of Webb City. Here he practiced his profession, until within five years of his death, having his office in Webb City and retaining a large practice during all those years.

October 4, 1855, Dr. Whitworth was married to Sarah C. Chandler, in Overton county, Tennessee, his wife dying in the year 1897. Dr. and Mrs. Whitworth have had four children – a daughter, Valeria J., and a son, William B., having died some years since. Two other sons – Albert M., a lawyer at Webb City, and John T., a farmer living near that place – survive their parents.

Dr. Whitworth was an active, earnest, public-spirited gentleman, devoted to his profession, at the same time carrying on farming operations, and a man of decided views on public questions. He was an earnest Union man during the Civil war. After the war for a few years he acted with the Democratic party, but in 1880 voted for James A. Garfield, and also became active in the Grange movement, and was independent in politics, voting for William J. Bryan for president in 1896.

Dr. Whitworth died November 25, 1899, leaving hosts of friends in Jasper county, being one of the old and best known settlers of the county and being a man of marked individuality, fearless in expressing his opinions and one who sought to be and to do right in all things. - The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri By Malcolm G. McGregor (1901). DR. DAVID M. WHITWORTH was born in Overton county, Tennessee, on the 28th day of September, 1826, and lived there until his removal to Jasper county, Missouri. His father, Thomas, and his mother, Judith (Weatherford), Whitworth, were both natives of Henry county, Virginia, of English-Scotch descent. Dr. Whitworth’s grandfather, John W. Whitworth, served throughout the war of the American Revolution as a soldier under General Greene and other prominent American officers; and his father served throughout the war of 1812. David M. Whitworth attended school in middle Tennessee and later was graduated as a physician at Nashville Medical College, in Tennessee, and afterwards took a course in the St. Louis Medical College. He practiced his profession in Tennessee until the year 1867, when he removed to Jasper county, Missouri, locating on a farm one mile west of Webb City. Here he practiced his profession, until within five years of his death, having his office in Webb City and retaining a large practice during all those years.

 October 4, 1855, Dr. Whitworth was married to Sarah C. Chandler, in Overton county, Tennessee, his wife dying in the year 1897. Dr. and Mrs. Whitworth have had four children – a daughter, Valeria J., and a son, William B., having died some years since. Two other sons – Albert M., a lawyer at Webb City, and John T., a farmer living near that place – survive their parents.

 Dr. Whitworth was an active, earnest, public-spirited gentleman, devoted to his profession, at the same time carrying on farming operations, and a man of decided views on public questions. He was an earnest Union man during the Civil war. After the war for a few years he acted with the Democratic party, but in 1880 voted for James A. Garfield, and also became active in the Grange movement, and was independent in politics, voting for William J. Bryan for president in 1896.

 Dr. Whitworth died November 25, 1899, leaving hosts of friends in Jasper county, being one of the old and best known settlers of the county and being a man of marked individuality, fearless in expressing his opinions and one who sought to be and to do right in all things.

 [Source is: The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri By Malcolm G. McGregor (1901). Transcribed by Kim Mohler] ________________________________________________________________

He was the son of John Thomas and Sarah Chandler Whitworth

The farming interests of Jasper county are well represented by John Thomas Whitworth, who owns a valuable and highly improved property on section 24, Joplin township. His birth occurred in Overton county, Tennessee, on the 16th of December, 1861 Info from Roy Fredrick More from Roy Fredrick* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103669280/david-mitchell-whitworth Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Apr 11 2021, 21:02:11 UTC''