Background
Worden, J. Perry was born on May 25, 1866 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States. Son of of Amos Warren and Mary (Welch) W.
Worden, J. Perry was born on May 25, 1866 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States. Son of of Amos Warren and Mary (Welch) W.
Brother Alice Graham Worden, educator (died 1929). Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1895. Studied Germanics, Columbia, 1895-1896.
Student philology and literature, university of Leyden and Halle-Saale, and at Sorbonne, 1896-1900. Doctor of Philosophy, Halle, 1900. Research, English and German universities, 1907-1910.
Reporter, special correspondent New York Sun and New York Tribune, 1888-1892. Sent to Europe as cycling tourist by Outing Magazine, 1892. Since then, on repeated tours abroad, often with bicycle and camera.
Lecturer for New York Board of Education 5 years, for university extension, in America, England and Germany, 12 years. Instructor in modern langs. various instns., 6 years. In charge German Department, University of Maine, summer session, 1905.
Professor modern langs., Kalamazoo (Michigan) College, 1905-1907. American consul, Bristol, England, 1907-1909. Traveler, particularly in Western America, since 1911.
Was for several years Germanic reviewer for The Nation, and Berlin literature correspondent New York Times’ Saturday Book Review.
Member.; Club: Gamut. Member History Society Southern California, and San Diego and Pasadena history societies Has placed, at own expense, “Worden Memorial,” Mount Hope (New York) Cemetery, and numerous tablets and other literature, history memorials of America-European associations, in museums and libraries at Stratford-on-Avon, Bristol, London, Windsor, Heidelberg, Weimar, Berlin, Halle-Saale, Bonn, Leipzig, Vienna, New York, Boston and elsewhere, especially in California.
Married Effie Josephine Fussell, 1916.