Henry Worrall (artist) explained

Henry Worrall (1825–1902) was an American visual artist and musician in Ohio and Kansas in the 19th century. Born in Liverpool, England, he moved to the U.S. in the 1830s, working as "a newsboy in New York and Cincinnati."^[1] In Ohio he taught guitar at the Ohio Female College^[2] and co-founded the Cincinnati Sketch Club. He settled in Topeka in 1868 and may have been "the only regular subscriber to the London Punch in Kansas." Worrall designed the landscaping of Washburn College;^[3] and the Kansas exhibits at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876, and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.^[4] Some of his musical compositions were published by Oliver Ditson in Boston and J.L. Peters & Bros. in St. Louis. He died in Kansas in 1902.

Works

• Book: E. Hannaford & Company . Cincinnati, Ohio . Buffalo Land: An Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West . William Edward . Webb . Illustrated by Henry Worrall . 1873 . 21642209 . 20492092M .
• Book: Ramsey, Millett & Hudson . Kansas City, Mo . Historic sketches of the cattle trade of the West and Southwest . Joseph G. . McCoy . 1874 . 4405851 . 234515M . Illustrations by Worrall on p.273 and p.303.
• Henry Worrall . The Colored Exodus - Scenes in Topeka, Kansas (three engravings) . Harper's Weekly . 532–4 . July 5, 1879 .
• Book: Henry Worrall . Worrall's Guitar School, or The Eclectic Guitar Instructor . Boston . Oliver Ditson Co. . 1884 . 1856 .

Further reading

• News: Mount Vernon Token Returned to Kansas . Duluth News Tribune . March 7, 1912 . Describes Worrall's wood carving of the Kansas state seal.
• Robert Taft . Pictorial record of the Old West: III. Henry Worrall . Kansas Historical Quarterly . 14 . Aug 1946 .
• Henry Worrall (1825–1902): Anglo-American Guitarist . Robert . Ferguson . Soundboard Scholar . 2 . guitarfoundation.org . 4–20. Extensive biography and list of works

External links

• WorldCat. Worrall, Henry 1825-1902
• Kansas Historical Society. Henry Worrall Collection
• , played by Perry Brooks Nichols.

Notes and References

1. Kansas City Star, 06-23-1902
2. Book: The Cincinnatus . Cincinnati . Farmer's College . 1857 .
3. News: Washburn's Way. It Keeps Pace with the Phenomenal Growth of the City and State. Massive . Topeka Weekly Capital . 1889-08-22 .
4. Pamela H. Simpson . Cereal Architecture: Late-Nineteenth-Century Grain Palaces and Crop Art . Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture . 10 . 2005 .