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5 unusual facts about James Johnston Thornton

He was also the uncle of famed businessman and philanthropist, George Washington Brackenridge, of San Antonio, Texas.

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Thornton excelled in his studies and was named justice of the peace for Warrick County, Indiana (1842).

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During the American Civil War, however, the Thornton family was pro-Union, which created local hostility.

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Thornton was a member of a pioneering Ohio and Indiana family that had migrated to the region from South Carolina over opposition to slavery.

James Johnston Thornton (1816–?), judge, land developer, and quartermaster of the Union Army