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Thornton was born on August 24, 1810. He was a descendant of an English immigrant who came to Virginia in 1633. His parents moved to Champaign County, Ohio, when he was an infant. He received a good education.
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Thornton was born on August 24, 1810. He was a descendant of an English immigrant who came to Virginia in 1633. His parents moved to Champaign County, Ohio, when he was an infant. He received a good education.
He received a good education.
Choosing the law for a profession, he spent nearly three years in London as a student, and on his return continued his preparation in the office of John H. Peyton of Staunton, Va.
After his admission to the bar in 1833 he attended law lectures at the University of Virginia.
In 1835 he opened a law office in Palmyra, Mo. , and in the following year edited a newspaper in that town. Thornton came into public notice, and on February 9, 1847, Gov. George Abernethy appointed him judge of the supreme court of the provisional government.
In October he was delegated to proceed at once to the national capital and press the demand of the people for the organization of a territory. Making the trip by water, he arrived in Washington in May 1848, and was soon joined by Joseph L. Meek, who, with similar instructions, had traveled by land.
Returning to Oregon, he was appointed Indian sub-agent for the region north of the Columbia, but soon gave up the post. He then resumed the practice of law and became active in politics. In 1864-65 he represented Benton County in the legislature.
He was a voluminous writer. For the meeting of the Oregon Pioneer Association of 1874 he expanded the sketch of the provisional government given in his book, and for the meeting of 1878 he prepared an account of the emigration of 1846. Both articles are printed in Transactions of the Association. He was also the author of a series of political articles in the New York Tribune under the pen-name of Achilles de Harley, and he wrote many letters for the local press. Much of his writing is bitterly critical of some of his contemporaries, and though late in life he made partial amends for this censoriousness, he set in motion controversies that continued long after his death.
For some years he lived in Oregon City, later in Albany and Portland, and from 1871 in Salem. His later years were spent in poverty. He died in Salem, and was buried there in the Methodist churchyard. He was survived by his wife.
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With the support of President Polk, Thornton worked tirelessly against a hostile, or indifferent, majority in Congress, and was successful in obtaining the passage of an act establishing the territorial government of Oregon on August 14, the last day of the session.
A disagreement with the President lost for him, however, a reappointment as judge. While in Washington he wrote Oregon and California in 1848, which was published early the following year, in two volumes, in New York; a second edition appeared in 1855.
Thornton was one of the leading figures in early Oregon, and his work was important and useful. Into the act establishing the territory he succeeded in incorporating a provision doubling the amount of land ordinarily set aside for school purposes, and thus made possible the rapid expansion of educational facilities in the young community.
On February 8, 1838, at Hannibal, Mo. , he married Mrs. Nancy M. Logue, and three years later moved to Quincy, Ill. Their health failing, in 1846 he and his wife set out for Oregon, overtaking on the way the California-bound ox-train of Col. William Henry Russell and arriving in the Salem neighborhood in November.
They had no children of their own, but left an adopted daughter.
