Threlkeld, Isaac N
lawyer, was born March 14, 1870, near Benton, Ill.
He received a thorough education in the public schools of his native county and at Ewing college. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and has attained prominence as one of the leading corporation and criminal lawyers of Illinois at Belleville.
THROCKMORTON, JAMES WEBB, soldier, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 1, 1825, in Sparta, Tenn. He was a member of the Texas legislature in 1851; and served in that body until the civil war in 1861. In 1861 he enterede confederate service, and continued actively engaged until 1863. In that year he was elected state senator; was appointed brigadier-general of state troops, and sent to command the northwest border of the state. He was elected governor of Texas in 1866, and was removed under the reconstruction acts of 1869. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-fourth congress, and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.