Bio of Thorp, Lymon E., Wabasha Co., MN
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Thorp, Lymon E., Lake City, who became a resident of this county as early
as 1856, is a native of Madison county, New York, is a son of Orrin and
Lucretia (Patridge) Thorp, and was born June 15, 1883. His early youth was
spent on the farm, where his parents gave him the best educational
advantages the country school afforded. At about the age of fifteen he
started to learn the blacksmith's trade, which he completed, and followed
the business in his native state till 1856. December 25, 1855, he married
Miss Marion O. Smith, a native of Shenango county, New York, and in the
fall of the next year emigrated to Minnesota, settling in Mazeppa
township, in Wabasha county, where he pre-empted a quarter-section of
land, on which he built a small house, and there resided one year. By this
time his wife's health had become so impaired that her physician advised a
return to her old eastern home. The next two years was spent there and in
the fall of 1859 he returned to Mazeppa, and the next spring built the
Franklin House, and kept hotel till August, 1862, when he enlisted in Co.
G., 8th Minn. Vol. Inf. His first two years' military service was in
border warfare on the frontier, crossing the plains to the Yellowstone,
under command of Gen. Sulley. The regiment was then ordered south, where
it did garrison duty till the close of the war. After some time spent in
visiting friends east, he permanently located in Lake City, and engaged in
the grain trade, which he followed till his recent connection with the
Jewell nursery as traveling salesman. Mrs. Thorp's parents, Joshua and
Aurilla (Franklin) Smith settled in Mazeppa in 1856, where they have since
been laid to rest. Mr. Thorp is a member of the Masonic lodge, chapter and
commandery of this city, and occupies his own palatial residence in this
city.