George F. Whitworth
George Frederick Whitworth was a Presbyterian missionary, educated at Hanover College in Indiana. Whitworth worked a minister in the Ohio Valley until 1853, when he and his family moved to the Western frontier.
In 1867, he co-founded the Lake Washington Coal Company. He was active in the founding of the first church in Grand Mound, Washington, which he co-pastored with J. W. Goodell. He was the president of the University of Washington from 1866–67 and 1874–76, and was the founder of Whitworth College in 1890.Grave
He is buried at Lake View Cemetery, Seattle, Washington. His grave is an American Presbyterian and Reformed Historic Site registered by the Presbyterian Historical Society, headquartered in Philadelphia.
