Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Thorn, Jr., Benjamin  March 23, 1817 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Green Township
p. 489

Benjamin Thorn, Jr., was born in Burlington County, N. J., March 23, 1817, and 
in 1827 removed with his parents, Benjamin and Ruth (Dudley) Thorn, to Warren 
County, Ohio, and in 1830 removed to Wayne County. He obtained his education 
at the subscription schools and after he attained his majority he worked 
several years for wages. With his earnings he purchased eighty acres of wild 
land in Huntington County, Ind., and soon after bought eighty acres more. He 
soon sold his land and purchased sixty acres where he has since been engaged 
in farming, owning at the present time over 400 acres in Wayne County, in a 
high state of cultivation. He was married to Salina, daughter of Samuel and 
Mary Ball, of Wayne County. They have had four children, only one now living---
Hannah A., born in 1851, now wife of John Chapman, of Green Township; Martin 
L. was born in June, 1842, and was killed by a runaway team at the age of 
twenty-four years, in August, 1866; Samuel A., born in 1843,was a member of 
the Thirty-sixth Indiana Infantry in the late war, and died of measles at Camp 
Wyckliffe, Ky.; Mary J. was born in 1849 and died of spotted fever in 1863. 
Mr. Thorn has been a cripple since 1863 from the effects of spotted fever. He 
belongs to the Society of Hicksite Friends and in politics is a Republican. 
His parents were of English and Welsh descent. Four of their children are 
living---Ezra, of Huntington County, Ind.; Mary, wife of Ira Moore, of 
Richmond, Ind.; Ruth, widow of Isaac Dudley, of Richmond, and our subject. Mr. 
and Mrs. Thorn are deceased, the former having died at the age of fifty-seven 
years.

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