"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
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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JOHN HARBISON THORNBURGH is the second son of Benjamin and Susan (Monical)
Thornburgh, and was born in Washington County, Ind., November 4, 1821. He
was reared upon the farm, and acquired the rudiments of an English education
at the neighborhood schools. At the age of twenty-two years, he left the
parental roof, and for the next four years taught school during the winter
months, and farmed during the summer. He was married, December 24, 1846, in
Mooresville, to Eliza Gray, widow of Dr. Gray (deceased) and daughter of
Reason Reagan (also deceased). Their first born, Thomas, died in infancy,
and his daughters are Elizabeth (wife of A. W. Conduitt), Alice L. (widow of
Dr. Wharton), and Susie (wife of O. E. Rooker). At the age of forty years,
our subject gave up farming, and for fifteen years followed merchandising in
Mooresville, and in the spring of 1881 engaged in general insurance, real
estate and money brokerage, which he has since followed. He has been thrice
Trustee of Brown Township, and Deputy Revenue Collector for Morgan County
under Grant's administration. The late panic came nearly bankrupting him
financially, but left his energy and business ability unimpaired. He is a
prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a Republican, an
advocate of temperance, and a public speaker of merit and a progressive citizen.
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