Thornton, Eliza B
poet, was born July 23, 1795, in North Hampton, N. H.
She was for many years a contributor of poetry to the Southern Literary Messenger, the Christian Mirror, and other periodicals. Her best known piece is The Mayflower. She died July 27, 1854, in Saco, Maine.
THORNTON, GUSTAVUS BROWN, sanitarian, author, was born Feb. 22, 1835, in Bowling Green, Va. In addition to his official reports as president of the Memphis board of health, he has contributed numerous memoirs on sanitary subjects to the Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, and to the transactions of other societies of which he is a member. These include Yellow Fever, Pathology and Treatment; Memphis Sanitation and Quarantine in 1879 and 1880; and Sanitation of the Mississippi Valley.