James Worts [SEP] manner of death
, James Gooderham Worts in 1831. Once there, he set up another windmill which was completed in 1832.
In February 1834, several weeks after his wife Elizabeth Gooderham, sister of his partner and brother-in-law William Gooderham Sr., died during childbirth, James Worts committed suicide by drowning himself in a well on his own company's property.
operating as Worts and Gooderham until Worts' death in 1834, Gooderham continued to operate the mill as the William Gooderham Company.
In 1837, he added a distillery to make efficient use of surplus and second-grade grain. Having taken Worts' son, James Gooderham Worts, under his guidance since Worts' death, they became partners in 1845 and renamed the company as Gooderham and Worts.
Expanding their business, they introduced gas for illumination, expanded the use of steam power in the plants and built their own