Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....Thornton, Macon November 5, 1866 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.31  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        THORNTON, MACON. One of the oldest business men of Ormond and Ormond 
Beach, MACON THORNTON is a former member of the Legislature and former mayor, 
and has been a resident of Florida for over thirty years.
	He was born at Brownsville, Tennessee, November 5, 1866, member of a 
prominent family of old Virginia and Western Tennessee. His father, Dr. BURWELL 
THORNTON, was a native of North Carolina, a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine in Brownsville, Tennessee, until his death 
in 1870, when about forty years of age.
	MACON THORNTON was reared and spent his boyhood in Brownsville, and 
attended the Webb Brothers private school and the McTyere School at McKenzie, 
Tennessee. He also acquired part of his education in the University of 
Tennessee. In 1885 he became an employee of a drug business at Brownsville, and 
in 1891 came to Florida and was associated with a drug house at Jacksonville 
until 1898, when he established a drug store at Ormond. Later he moved his home 
to Ormond Beach, and conducted stores in both places for twelve years. His 
business is now confined to the beach.
	Mr. Thornton served two terms as mayor of Ormond, and was a member of 
the legislature in 1909. He has been a president of the State Pharmaceutical 
Association, vice president of the Florida Association of Postmasters, was 
county chairman of the War Savings Committee during the World war and was 
county chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. On October 10, 1895, he 
married MARY CATHERINE ROBERTS, of Nashville, Tennessee. Her grandfather was 
founder of the great newspaper, the Nashville American. Her father, EUGENE 
ROBERTS, was business manager of that paper for eighteen years. Mr. and Mrs. 
Thornton, have one son, BURWELL, a graduate of the law department of the 
Florida State University and who during the World war was with the Service 
Supplies Department in France a year and with the Army of Occupation in Coblenz 
and Luxembourg. He returned as a sergeant. He is now associated with Kay, Adams 
& Ragland Corporation, attorneys at Jacksonville, Florida.


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