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David Gaston Worth, an honor graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1853 and son of Governor Jonathan Worth, was a trustee and benefactor of the university and founded its Worth Prize in Philosophy. A Wilmington commission merchant, he died in November 1897, and the university held a memorial service for him in Gerrard Hall.
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Robert Hiden Sykes's biographical sketch of David Gaston Worth, 1831 to 1897, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, signed at the end by the author and detached from the North Carolina University magazine, new series, volume 15, number 3, April 1898. Printed at Chapel Hill for the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
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