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Thruston, Charles Mynn

soldier, banker, was born Feb. 22, 1789, in Lexington, Ky. In 1814 he was commissioned as lieutenant of artillery, and assigned to duty on Governor's Island, New York harbor. He became adjutant of his regiment in 1821, and during the Florida war in 1835-36 was acting adjutant-general of the Florida army. Resigning in 1836, he settled on a farm at Cumberland, Md.

He became president of a bank in 1838, and mayor in 1861. He died in February, 1873, in Cumberland, Md.