mand of a war vessel on the expedition to Louisburg. He was in active service during the French and Indian War, and in the Revolutionary War had command in Canada after the death of Montgomery. When the British invaded Connecticut in 1777, Wooster attacked them at Danbury and was mortally wounded on April 27, and died on May 2, 1777. Wooster, O., was named for him. A monument to him was built by Connecticut.
Worcester (wo͝os′tẽr), a city of England, is on Severn River, about 26 miles from Birmingham. It is an old town, smelting-works in the neighborhood being thought to date back to the time of the Romans. The cathedral, one of the noted ones of England, dates from 1084. It was much injured in the Civil War, but has been restored at great cost. Of the industries the most important are glove-making and the manufacture of porcelain, royal Worcester ware being celebrated for fine designs and beautiful execution. Other manufactures are those of leather, horse-hair weaving, vinegar, wine and engines. Population 46,624.
Worcester, Mass., one of the county-seats of Worcester County, 40 miles southwest of Boston. It ranks next to Boston in population and is a beautiful city, with wide, shaded streets, public parks and fine buildings. The city expends the sum of $646,262 on its public schools, which have a force of 628 day-teachers and 117 night-teachers and an enrollment of 26,360 pupils. Among the higher educational institutions are Clark University, founded in 1888, for strictly graduate work; Clark College, founded in 1902, its trustees being those of Clark University; Worcester Academy; the Free Institute of Industrial Science; the College of the Holy Cross (R. C.); and Polytechnic Institute. The public library; the American Antiquarian Society, with a fine library; the state insane asylum, one of the finest buildings in the country; and the soldiers' monument by Rogers are other noticeable features. The city is extensively engaged in manufactures, as boots and shoes, machinery and machinists' tools, stoneware, jewelry, carpets, machine-needles, awls, wirework, cotton-thread, blankets, felt, water-meters, horse-collars and nails. Worcester was settled in 1713. Population 145,986.
Worcester, Dean Conant, assistant-professor of zoölogy in the University of Michigan and member of the Philippines Commission of 1900, was born at Thetford, Vt., Oct. 1, 1866, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1889. In 1887 and in 1890 he was a member of the Steere and of the Menage Scientific Expedition to the Philippines, in both of which he studied their fauna and other scientific features of the islands, as also the existing conditions of the people. In 1900 he was appointed a member of the United States Philippines Commission, and wrote The Philippines and Their People. In 1893 he was named instructor, and in 1895 assistant-professor of zoölogy and curator of the zoölogical museum at the University of Michigan.
Worcester, Joseph Emerson, an American lexicographer, was born at Bedford, N. H., Aug. 24, 1784, and died at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 27, 1865. In 1811 he graduated at Yale, and in his early career wrote several geographical and historical textbooks, together with one or two popular dictionaries. His chief work in lexicography, however, was the quarto Dictionary of the English Language, which first appeared in 1860 and met with much success.
Word′en, John Lorimer, American naval officer, was born at Ossining, N. Y., on March 12, 1818. In 1835 he entered the navy as a midshipman and eleven years later gained a lieutenancy. Early in 1861, after bearing dispatches to Fort Pickens, he was captured by Confederate troops. Towards the close of the year he was exchanged, and subsequently took part in superintending the construction of The Monitor (q. v.). When that famous ironclad was completed, Worden was given command. At Hampton Roads, on March 9, 1862, he gave battle to the Confederate ram Merrimac (or Virginia), then endeavoring to destroy northern warships. In the historic encounter between the two vessels neither was seriously injured, though a hot cannonade was maintained for two hours and over, in which Worden was temporarily blinded by the explosion of a shell on the pilot-house of The Monitor. Receiving the thanks of Congress for his service on the occasion, the captain also obtained a step in rank, while he was transferred to the command of The Montauk. On the latter ironclad Commander Worden destroyed the Confederate privateer Nashville, which had taken shelter under the guns of Fort McAllister, and later took part in the bombardment of Charleston (April 7, 1863). He subsequently was on special duty at New York City, and, as commodore, was head of the Naval Academy from 1870 to 1874. In 1872 he was commissioned rear-admiral, and in 1886, at his own request, he was retired. He died at Washington, D. C., on Oct. 18, 1897.
Words′worth, William, an English poet, was born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, April 7, 1770. He studied at Cambridge, and traveled in France, where he sympathized strongly with the Revolution, but fortunately was compelled by his friends to return home in October of 1792 before his Girondist friends were sent to the guillotine. His first publications, in 1793, were two poems: An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches, which made little impression upon the public, but won the
