Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Thornburgh, Elvin September 3, 1821 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Perry Township
p. 713 & 714

Elvin Thornburgh was born Sept. 3, 1821, in what is now Dalton Township, Wayne 
County, a son of Jacob and grandson of Walter Thornburgh, one of the early 
settlers of Wayne County. Our subject was reared on a frontier farm, receiving 
only a limited education at the log-cabin subscription schools. His mother 
died when he was nine years old, and he was bound out to Jesse Greenehurst, 
with whom he lived till he was twenty-one years of age, after which he was 
variously employed, such as driving hogs to Cincinnati, chopping cord wood, 
etc. He was married Feb. 9, 1842, to Damaris M. Locke, born July 3, 1826, and 
daughter of William and Damaris (Mills) Locke. After his marriage Mr. 
Thornburgh purchased a farm in Delaware County, Ind., which he sold soon after 
and bought 160 acres on Martindale's Creek, Wayne County, since which he has 
accumulated a good property, and in 1881 he moved to Economy, having retired 
from active life. He and his wife are active members of the United Brethren 
church, of which he has been Class-leader, and Mrs. Thornburgh has been a 
minister, for many years. They had five children, three of whom are living---
John M., Jacob Albert and William Lewis. Mary Ann and Martha Ann (twins) died 
in infancy.

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