Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and
Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.,
Publishers, 1884. Mercer County.

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 yers, and in 1856 purchased sixty acres in Brown Township, to
which he added forty afterward.  He continued farming until 1877, 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 Janaury 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.

Thornburg Small Monical Moon Davis Hornor Dryden Doughty Wilson
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Washington-IN Morgan-IN VT

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