Thornton, James B
state legislator, author, was born in Merrimack, N.
H. He was speaker of the New Hampshire state legislature in 1829 and 1830. He was the author of Digest of the Conveyancing, Testamentary, and Registry Laws of the United States in 1837. He was charge d'affaires to Peru in 1836. He died Jan. 25, 1838, in Callao, N. H.
THORNTON, JAMES BANKHEAD, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 28, 1806, in Mount Zephyr, Va. He represented his district in the Virginia senate in 1838-40, and was one of the prime movers in the establishment of the Military institute at Lexington, Va. He was the author of a Digest of the Conveyancing, Testamentary, and Registry Laws of the States of the Union. He died Oct. 12, 1867, in Memphis, Tenn.