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BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY YEARS
witched them, and though my boy could not afterward recall a
single fact or figure in it, he could bring before his mind's eye every
trait of its outward aspect.
But David Caldwell lives most securely not in books
but in the men that he made and in the widening conm-
pass of their influence. The Guilford County of his
day was peculiarly cosmopolitan and even international
in its make-up. There were the Scotch-Irish in and
around Greensboro, then as now the masterful stock;
there were the German exiles from the Palatinate in
the eastern part of the county; and there were the
English Quakers, who came via Nantucket, and a
little band of Welshmen to the west and south. Out
of the clash or coincidence of these varied racial stocks
the history of the county was builded. But all ele-
ments went to school to David Caldwell or to teachers
trained by him.
The Worth and Porter families form no exception.
Jonathan Worth, Quaker and future governor, came
from Center to Greensboro to be taught and to teach
in the Greensboro Academy, a Presbyterian school
taught by a pupil and son of David Caldwell. In
1821 "the trustees of the Academy think it necessary
to announce to the public that they have employed
Mr. Jonathan Worth as an assistant teacher. No
young gentleman, we believe, sustains a fairer char-
acter than Mr. Worth." When Jonathan Worth began
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Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso), 1864-1924. O. Henry Biography, book, 1916; Garden City, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139384/m1/71/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.