Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

HON. WILLIAM P. THORNE was born in Henry County, Ky., March 5, 1845, the
second of three children born to W. K. and Mary (Moody) Thorne.  His father
was born in Shelby County, March 13, 1811, the third of eight children born
to John and Elizabeth (Kimberland) Thorne.  William P. Thorne was educated
at the common schools in his county and at Eminence College, and was
admitted to the bar in 1868; is a natural born lawyer, an original thinker
and an able speaker, and success similar to his has seldom been achieved,
he, by his own efforts, unaided by an established partner or by wealth,
having built up a state reputation.  His criminal practice has been very
large, he having prosecuted and defended in as many important cases as
any lawyer of his age in Kentucky, and by care and economy he has been able
to accumulate a fair share of this world's goods.  Mr. Thorne married Miss
Anna Dickerson, the only sister of Hon. W. W. Dickerson, who represented
Grant County in the Legislature of 1886; and is now the State Senator from
that district.  To this union have been born two daughters, Pearl and
Bernice, and one son, Will Lindsay Thorne, who was page to Speaker Offutt,
session of 1886, the youngest State official Kentucky ever had, being only
eight years of age when sworn into office.  Mr. Thorne has been
prosecuting attorney of Henry County, and is now city attorney of Eminence.
He was alternate delegate to the Democratic convention at New York in
1868, which nominated Horatio Seymour for the presidency, and was the
youngest member of that convention.  He was elected to the Legislature
in 1885 by as large a majority as any member of that body, and,
notwithstanding the fact that he had opposition, there was not a single
vote cast against him by either Democrat or Republican in the city in
which he lives and was born and raised.  His course in the Legislature
proves the wisdom of his selection.  He was chairman of the important
committee on propositions and grievances, and a member of the committee on
criminal law and committee on court of appeals and superior courts.  He
is the author of several important bills proposed during the session,
among them being the tobacco bill, the bill to fence railroads, and the
act to suppress bucket shops, and was a strong advocate of the bill to
suppress gambling houses.  The secret of Mr. Thorne's success in both
public and private life rests in his stanch adherence to principle, his
energy, his accuracy, and a thorough performance of every official and
social duty.

Thorne Moody Kimberland Dickerson
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Shelby-KY Grant-KY

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