Walter Brooke Cox Worthington
Walter Brooke Cox Worthington (September 19, 1795 - 1845) was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
Walter Brooke Cox Worthington was born September 19, 1795 at "The Valley", near Nottingham, Maryland. He was the son of William Worthington III (1747-1820) and Jane Contee (1761-1825). He was the brother of Thomas Contee Worthington (1782–1847), a U.S. Representative from Maryland, and William Grafton Delaney Worthington IV (1785–1856).
His maternal grandparents were Sarah Fendall (1732–1793) and Thomas Contee (1729–1793), himself the grandson of Thomas Brooke, Jr. (1660–1730). Through his maternal grandfather's sister, Jane Contee (1726–1812), who was married to John Hanson (1721–1783), a delegate to the Continental Congress who signed the Articles of Confederation and served as the 9th President of the Continental Congress, he was related to Alexander Contee Hanson (1786–1819), also a U.S. Representative, and later, U.S. Senator from Maryland.
He was educated in Nottingham and in Baltimore, where after leaving school, he entered a mercantile house, and remained until he had gained a practical business training.
He returned to Prince George’s County shortly after reaching his majority and took charge of the estate devised him by his grandfather, Col. Thomas Contee, consisting of part of “Brookefield”. Upon the death of his mother, he inherited the estate “The Valley” or "Vale of Tempe", and he devoted himself to agriculture for the rest of his life. This was located on the original tract of land called "Brookefield". Walter enlarged “The Valley” by purchasing adjoining fields, making it a farm of 600 acres (2.4 km2), and acquired several other estates in the same neighborhood, including the one known as “Half Pone”, or “Leith”, which he bought from Fielder Bowie (currently at the end of Croom Airport Road in Patuxent River Park, Croom, Maryland.) At the time of his death he owned more than 2,000 acres (8 km²), and more than a hundred Negroes.
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