Background
Thornburg, Delmar Leon was born on August 15, 1881 in Beallsville, Ohio, United States. Son of Wilberforce and Miriam Luella (Daniel) Thornburg.
Thornburg, Delmar Leon was born on August 15, 1881 in Beallsville, Ohio, United States. Son of Wilberforce and Miriam Luella (Daniel) Thornburg.
Graduate Woodbine (Iowa) Normal School, 1897. Bachelor of Science, University of Nebraska, 1902.
Instructor department of physics, University of Nebraska, 1898-1902. Head department of science Aberdeen (South Carolina.P. High School, 1902-1903. Principal public schools, Newcastle, Wyoming, 1903-1905, Fortuna, California, 1905-1906, city superintendent schools, Eureka, California, 1906-1911.
Superintendent schools, Compton, California, 1912-1913.
Practiced law, San Francisco and Oakland, 1913-1930. President Northern University, 1923-1930.
Practiced law in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1930. Candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, 1926.
President Thornbury Family of America.
President Sons and Daughters of Washington Fraternal Society, 1925. President national Bird. Society, from 1932; member California Genealogical Society (president 1921).!, Sons of the American Revolution
Mason (32°, Shriner). Clubs: University of Nebraska. Club (San Francisco).
Married Alpha Emeline Sedgley, of Eureka, California, June 19, 1909. Children: Delmar Sedgley, Destal Miriam.