Daniel Ashworth dies

D. ASHWORTH,

BURGESS OF

CRAFTON, DIES

Known Widely as Consulting

Engineer and

Speaker.

WAS CIVIL WAR VETERAN

Daniel Ashworth, burgess of Crafton, once widely known as an engineer and as a participant in political and civic affairs, died at 5:14 o'clock yesterday morning in his home, 67 West Ridge avenue, Crafton. He was 78 years old.

Death came after four weeks' illness caused by advanced age. Mr. Ashworth leaves his widow and two sons. William Ashworth of this city and George Ashworth of Youngstown. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. Interment following in Allegheny cemetary.

Mr. Ashworth was a Civil war veteran and at one time was commander of a local G.A.R. post. Several years ago he was defeated for councilman. He was one of the best-known men of the city and a leading figure in his borough.

Daniel Ashworth.

He was a tipstaff in the local courts for several years and served as United States pension agent under the administration of President Roosevelt and Taft. Seven years ago he and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

During the Civil war he was commander of a man-of-war. After being mustered out, he resumed his engineering work, visiting many quarters of the globe before finally settling down in Pittsburgh.

Mr. Ashworth was born in Lancashire, Eng., the son of Samuel and Eliza Ashworth and came to this country when a boy. He entered the Pittsburgh public schools and served an apprenticeship as designer of molds in the glass works of James B. Lyons & Co. It was during this period that he met and won Miss Sarah E. Rowswell. The couple had been married only three weeks when he shouldered a musket and went to war.

It was during the second year of the Civil war that Mr. Ashworth enlisted in Company 7, One Hundred and Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, engaging in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. For a time he was engaged in the manufacture of large guns at the famous Ft. Pitt gun works in Pittsburgh. In 1864 he was commissioned engineer in the United States navy, serving on a man-o-war with the Potomac flotilla and with the North Atlantic squadron.

During the next five years, Mr. Ashworth worked as master mechanic and dsigner [sic] designer for glass works at Portland, Me., and Boston, and in 1873 he accepted a position for 10 years with the Hemingray Glass Company of Covington, Ky. He then became superintendent of the Lane & Bodley Company's engineering department at Cincinnati, remaining for two years. He then became a consulting engineer. In 1884, he returned to Pittsburgh, where much of his consulting engineering has been for the Carnegie Steel Company.

Mr. Ashworth was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania and the National Association of Steam Engineers. he was one of the charter members of the Grand Army in Kentucky and commander of James A. Garfield Post at Covington. On his return to this city, he became commander of General Alexander Hays Post No. 3. Mr. Ashworth was a prominent member of the Masonic order. He served also as a school director while in Covington and in Pittsburgh. Several years ago he was a candidate for council here, but was defeated.

Years ago Mr. Ashworth gained fame as a reader of Shakespeare's works and he has been regarded as an authority on the bard, Scarcely a week passed that he was not asked to lecture. Sometimes it was at a church, often at a Grand Army meeting. But wherever it was or whatever the occasion, he always was ready with wit and reminiscences to spare.