"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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AMOS THORNBURG, of the firm of Thornburg & Small, dealers in grain and
proprietors of the Union Mill and Elevator, was born in this county February
27, 1827, and likewise reared here. His father, Benjamin Thornburg, was
born near Harrodsburg, Ky., September 25, 1797; reared in Washington
County, Ind., and in 1822 removed to this county; settled near Brooklyn,
and entered in all 160 acres, 100 of which are now in cultivation. He was
rigidly temperate, and thus set a fair example to the pioneers; a life-long
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, also an exhorter and class-leader;
he was an old-time Whig, and later a Republican. In 1817, he married a Miss
Susan Monical, who died in 1876, having borne fourteen children, seven of
whom survive--Rachel (Mrs. Moon), Hannah (Mrs. Davis), Amanda (Mrs. Hornor),
Ada (Mrs. Dryden), John H., Peter F. and Amos. Our subject engaged in
farming for his father several years, and in 1856 purchased sixty acres in
Brown Township, to which he added forty afterward. He continued farming
until l877, when he moved to this town and engaged successfully in the
milling line, having one of the best mills in the country, with buhr and
roller combined. Their elevator is also very superior, having, capacity of
40,000 bushels; they can, too, load and weigh a car of wheat in eight
minutes. Mr. Thornburg has been twice married--first, April 10, 1854, to
Miss Caroline E. Doughty, of Vermont, who died January, 1876, leaving three
living children--James D., Benjamin E. and Albert M.; second, October 3,
1877, to Mrs. Amanda B. Wilson. Mr. Thornburg is an Odd Fellow, a
Republican and strictly temperate and prudent.
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