JONATHAN FOX WORCESTER, was born in Salem, Mass., August 12, 1806. His father* Samuel Worcester, D. D., a graduate of Dartmouth in 1795, Corres. Sec. A. B. C. F. M., and pastor of the Tabernacle church in Salem, died at Brainerd, E. Tenn., June 7, 1821.

He pursued his preparatory studies principally at the Latin School in Salem, under the tuition of James Day, and Henry K. Oliver, Esqrs.; studied six months, at Amherst, Mass., with his brother, S. M. Worcester, then Tutor in Amherst College; and entered Dartmouth, in the spring of 1824.

After graduating, he taught a public school in Salem, until August 1829; studied medicine with A. L. Pearson, M.D., of the same city, until August 1832, when he received a medical degree at Harvard. He practised medicine in Salem, one year; and then engaged in private instruction in the same place; which business he has continued until the present time.

He was married, October 15, 1833, to Miss Mary Punchard, of Salem. She died, May 1, 1836, and he was again married November 1, 1837, to Miss Hannah Derby, of Salem. She died, June 1, 1840, and he was married, September 9, 1841, to Miss Mary Barton of Salem. She has had four children, two of whom;--Mary Helen, and Anna Derby, are living.
  

Source:  Class of 1827, of Dartmouth College;  Proceedings at their meeting in July, 1852; and Brief Notices of the Members.  Lynn:  W. W. Kellogg, Printer Over the Depot, Typographic Hall, 1853.

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