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| | A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri |
 | | Worth County was organized February 28, 1861, and was named for General William Jenkins Worth (born Hudson, N. March 1, 1774 and died San Antonio, Texas, May 7, 1841.) General Worth, in 1840, was sent to Florida, and in 1841, took the chief command against the Seminole Indians. |
 | | It is bounded on the north by the State of Iowa: on the east by Harrison County; on the south by Gentry County, and on the west by Nodaway County. |
 | | Among the earliest settlers of Allen Township was Joseph Robertson, who came from Virginia to Ray County, Mo., in the fall of 1837, and to Worth County in the spring of 1842 and located one and a half miles east of Denver, near Rock Creek... |
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