History of Henderson County, Kentucky by Edmund L. Starling, 1887 Reprinted
Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville, IN, 1965, pp 628-630.  Henderson Co

     LUDSON WORSHAM., Physician, is the second living son of E. W. and 
Miriam J. Worsham, and was born in Henderson County on the nineteenth day 
of December, 1854.  At an early age Ludson Worsham manifested a fondness 
for books.  He was educated in various private schools, and by private 
tutors, finally graduating with high honors from the "Henderson High 
School."  He studied medicine, for which he exhibited a great fondness, and
graduated in the year 1879, at the Medical University, New York City.  He 
accompanied his father during the month of August, 1873, to San Francisco, 
California, and became a citizen of the "Golden City."  He remained in San 
Francisco several years, and then visited New York for the purpose of 
completing his medical education, which he did as before stated in 1879.  
Having graduated, he returned to San Francisco and immediately engaged in 
the practice of his profession in that city until 1882.  His ability was so
marked, his strength of character so well settled, commercial eyes were 
soon directed toward him,, and in a short while he was induced by the 
"Alaska Commercial Company" to accept the position of Medical Purveyor for 
that district, Unalaska, a town situated upon the east coast of Unalaska 
Island, the largest and most extreme eastern of the Aleutian Islands, was 
designated headquarters.  He accepted the position, and during his stay at 
that place, traveled among the Aleutian Islands off the Coast of Alaska.  
In 1884, much to the regret of the Alaska Commercial Company, Dr. Worsham 
tendered his resignation.  For nearly two years he had performed his duties
nobly and faithfully, his gentle kindness in sickness and in health, had 
won him warm friends; there fore, it is not to be wondered, that the Alaska
Company reluctantly accepted his resignation, but, there was a jewel in his
far off native home, dearer to his noble love than all the glittering 
wealth above or underneath the earth of Alaska.  Love knows no limit; for 
six and one-half long years his heart had been tangled in a golden smile; 
and, why not, beauty hath made our greatest manhood weak; other Doctors 
than he have gone tilting with a lance of light, in lists of argument, and
yet have knelt and sighed most plethoric sighs; stern hearts close 
barred against a wanton world, have had their gates burst open by a kiss. 
There was one, who might have topped all men, who bartered joyously for one
single smile, an empired planet with its load of crowns, and thought 
himself rich.  With such sweet arguments string him in the face, he yet 
"loved and languished after the most orthodox model."  Hope, "Heaven’s own 
gift to struggling mortals," cheered him upward and onward, and soon he was
enroute [sic] to Henderson.  In coming, the Doctor visited Petropaulovsk, 
in the southern part of Western Siberia, and, after a long, tedious and 
disagreeable voyage, landed safe at his native town.
     A few months subsequent to his arrival, an event occurred which 
explains what we have been hinting at.  On the seventeenth day of December,
1884, Dr. Ludson Worsham and Miss Mary L. Hodge, an accomplished lady, a 
true and devoted lover in maidenhood, an affectionate and self-denying wife
and mother, and a model christian, were joined together in the holy estate 
of matrimony at Henderson, Rev. Dr. D. O. Davies, of the First Presbyterian
Church, officiating.  Dr. Worsham, immediately after his marriage, formed a
medical partnership with his wife’s father, Dr. Joseph Anthony Hodge, and 
for several months practiced his chosen profession in Henderson, but as 
time rolled on, he believed Evansville to be a better vineyard for the 
medical laborer, so on the tenth day of August, 1885, he removed to that 
city, and is yet domiciled there, doing, as the writer learns, a lucrative
practice.  Dr. Hodge, the father of Mrs. Worsham, is well known to the 
profession throughout Kentucky.  He was at one time President of the 
Kentucky State Board of Health, and as a physician is recognized and 
acknowledged one of the best in the State.  Dr. and Mrs. Worsham have had
born unto them two children, both boys, each of whom being most 
appropriately named.  The eldest is named for his maternal grandfather, 
Anthony Hodge, the youngest for his paternal grandfather, Elijah William.
     Dr. Worsham was raised in the Baptist Church faith, but at this 
writing has not confessed the faith handed down, by attaching himself to 
any church, through membership.  Mrs. Worsham is a devoted Presbyterian, 
sincere in all she does or says.  Dr. Worsham is a charter member of St. 
George Lodge, Knights of Pythias at Evansville.

Worsham Hodge Davies
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New_York_City-New_York-NY San_Francisco-San_Francisco-CA
Unalaska-Unalaska-Aleutian_Islands AK Petropaulovsk-Siberia
Evansville-Vanderburgh-IN

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