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A history of Caroline county, Virginia

from its formation in 1727 to 1924
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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ANTHONY THORNTON

Anthony Thornton was born November 9, 1819 in Bourbon
county, Ky., whither his parents had gone from "Ormesby"
in Caroline. He graduated from Miama College in Ohio and


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settled at Shelbyville, Illinois, where he engaged in the practice
of law. He was a Delegate to the Illinois Constitutional Conventions
of 1847 and 1862, a member of the State Legislature in
1850, and a member of the Thirty-Ninth United States Congress.