Some members of the Worthington family of Sherbrooke, Quebec include Edward Dagge Worthington (1820-1895, born in Ballinakill, Republic of Ireland and died in Sherbrooke) and his son Arthur Norreys Worthington (1863-1912, born and died in Sherbrooke). Edward Dagge Worthington was a leading surgeon in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and was the first surgeon in Canada to perform a major operation using ether as an anesthetic. He served as a staff assistant surgeon in the British Army and in the Quebec regiment of Volunteer Light Infantry in 1837 and 1838 in the 53rd Batallion. He was a member of the Canadian Medical Association and a governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. In 1845, he married Frances Louisa Smith, and they had eight children. Arthur Norreys Worthington graduated from McGill University in Medicine in 1886. He practiced surgery in Sherbrooke and became the mayor of Sherbrooke from 1901 to 1902 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1906. He was an officer in the volunteer movement and served with the field hospital during the Northwest Resistance in 1885. From 1900 to 1902 he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in South Africa. In 1887, he married May Cook, daughter of Hermon Henry Cook and Lydia White.

Amos Henry Worthen was born on October 31, 1813, in Bradford, Vermont.

He was a geologist and paleontologist. He attended Bradford Academy. He moved to Ohio and taught school at Cumminsville, near Cincinnati. He returned to his boyhood interest in natural science and studied the forests of the Mississippi valley, collecting fossils and minerals. In 1858, he became the second State Geologist of Illinois. From 1877 to 1888, he served as the first Curator of the Illinois State Museum. Worthen was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Philosophical Society (1863), and the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1834, he married Sarah Burnham Kimball (1814–1887). He died on May 6, 1888, in Warsaw, Illinois.

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William Workman was born on May 1, 1807, in Ballymacash, County Antrim, Ireland.

He was a merchant, businessman, mayor of Montreal, and philanthropist. From 1827 to 1829, he worked for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, and, in 1829, he moved to Canada with his family. He began to work for the newspapers, Canadian Courant and Montreal Advertiser. In 1830, he joined his brothers Benjamin and Thomas in Canada's largest tool and hardware wholesale business of John Frothingham. By 1836, the Workmans had become full partners, and William remained in the partnership until his retirement in 1859. In 1842, he built an impressive mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, which he named "Mount Prospect". He was one of the founders of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank in 1846 and became the bank's first president, 1846-1862, and a director, 1861-1872. Workman was Mayor of Montreal from 1868 to 1871 and invested heavily in railways (Champlain and St. Lawrence railway), shipping (Canadian Ocean Steam Navigation Company), real estate, and charity. He helped establish the Montreal Protestant House of Industry and Refuge in 1864 and served as its president from 1874 to 1877. He was also president of the St. Patrick’s Society of Montreal.

In 1831, he married Elizabeth (Eliza) Bethell (1805–1885). He died on February 23, 1878, in Montreal, Quebec.

Benjamin Workman was a Montreal physician and druggist. Born into a large family in Lisburn, Ireland, in 1793, he emigrated in 1819 and settled in Montreal. He was a student at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill in 1852 and worked as a chemist and druggist. He served as editor of the Canadian Courant, which he acquired from Nahum Mower in 1829. He served as secretary of the Christian Unitarian Society of Montreal. In 1856 he became assistant medical superintendent to his brother Joseph at the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, where he worked until 1875.