A Guide to the Thornton Family Papers
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 2077-f
University of Virginia Library
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Thornton Family Papers, Accession 2077-f, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
This collection was a gift to the Library by O. Allan Gianniny, Jr. of Charlottesville, Virginia, on December 5, 1994.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
There are five items, 1862, 1924, and n.d., pertaining to the Thornton family and particularly John Thruston Thornton . Thornton (1824-1862), the son of William Mynn Thornton and Elizabeth Anderson Thornton, born at Oak Hill , Cumberland County, Virginia , on November 17, 1824, was a University of Virginia law school graduate killed at the battle of Antietam during the Civil War. There is a photostat of a document "In Memoriam of John T. Thornton/Sept. 19th 1862/Among the many noble and brave men lost by Virginia/During the present War, a place second to that held by none, is due to/Lieut. Col. John T. Thornton..." and a framed photograph of Thornton ["Monroe Hill Taken by Miss Anna Dorman Summer of 1915"--note written in hand of William Mynn Thornton]. Other items include two genealogical charts of the Fall Hill and Oak Hill lines of the Thornton family , descended from William Thornton who migrated from Yorkshire to Virginia in 1840; and, the "Drama-Music/Fashions-Society" section of The New York TImes for May 4, 1924.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- John Thruston Thornton
- Thornton family