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J Frederick Haworth Obituary
The Sewickley Herald, November 9, 1928
Sudden heart failure, coming utterly without warning, caused the dearth of Jehu Frederick Haworth at his home on Maple lane, Edgeworth, at two o'clock last Sunday morning, November 4, 1928.
Funeral services were held at his late home in Edgeworth on Tuesday afternoon, in charge of Rev. Frank Orr Johnson of Christ Church and Rev. Alleyne c. Howell of St. Stephen's. The interment was in Highwood Cemetery, North Side. Honorary pallbearers were John C. Slack, George H. Clapp, Oscar C. Reiter, Albert B. Benney, Gaylord Yost, Col. John T. Penney, T. Jefferson Haworth, Jr., Joseph Kaye, William D. George, James C. Chaplin, Thomas Patterson and Van Lear P. Shriver.
Mr. Haworth was 62 years old, having been born on Troy Hill, Allegheny City, October 9, 1866, son of the late Jehu Haworth. After graduation from the Western University of Pennsylvania, he took a course in the Stevens Institute of Technology, receiving the degree of mechanical engineer. He practiced his profession a few years, then entered the wholesale grocery firm of Haworth & Dewhurst, Pittsburgh, founded by his father. He continued with the firm until its dissolution a few years ago.
He was a pioneer in aerial photography, and long before the day of the airplane made aerial photographs of Hawaii and the great Hawaiian volcano, Kilauea; this work was done at the request of Prof. Curtis of Harvard University. These photographs were made by the use of a kite and camera of his own invention, and were used in making a relief map of the island and volcano which is now in the possession of the university; before the practical use of airplanes it was the only way such photographs could have been taken, and the methods worked out by Mr. Haworth for such map-photographs were fundamentally the same as those perfected during the World War for the air-maps which were so essential at that time. Mr. Haworth during the war gave to the government all his patents and inventions.
Mr. Haworth was a connoisseur of music, a member of the Chamber Music Society of Pittsburgh, and had many associations with the city's musical world; after many years of study he was widely recognized as an expert in the knowledge of old violins and the other stringed instruments. He was a member of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church of the North Side, Pittsburgh, and an attendant at St. Stephens Church of Sewickley. He had lived in Edgeworth in 1895 He was a member of Theta Psi fraternity.
Mr. Haworth is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sara Madeira Haworth, and four children, Mrs. Frank Lynn McCready, Miss Anna Dewhurst Haworth, J. Frederick Haworth, Jr., and Alvin King Haworth. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Jehu Haworth; two sisters, Miss Lucy E. Haworth and Miss M. M. Alice Haworth; and a brother, Riddle D. Haworth.
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