Thurber, George
botanist, journalist, author, was born in 1821 in Rhode Island. He was a botanist who edited The American Agriculturist in 1863-90. He published American Weeds and Useful Plants, a revision of Darlington's Agricultural Botany. He died in 1890. THURMAN, ALLEN GRANBERRY, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-ninth congress, and was elected a judge of the supreme court of Ohio in 1851. He was chief justice of the same from 1854 to 1856. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from that state for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875, and was re-elected for the term ending in 1881.