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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 11 October 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Deerfield Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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L C. THURSTON, horse shoer and dealer in fine horses, Mason. The subject of this memoir was born in Mason, Jan. 2, 1838. He is a son of James and Margaret (Crone) Thurston. He was a native of Germany and her family were of Irish extraction. James T. came to Warren County in 1811, and settled near Foster's Crossing. He was a miller by trade and for twenty years he worked for Governor Jeremiah Morrow as his miller. He was married to Margaret Crone, in Mason, and our subject is their only offspring. He |
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(James) followed the vocation of milling as long as he was able to perform manual labor, when he went to Indiana and in Vigo County purchased a farm on which he lived till his death, which occurred in 1874, aged about 80 years. His wife survived him and died in Lebanon in 1871, suddenly and without a moment's warning. Our subject was reared in Mason, and with Bursk, he learned the trade of horse shoeing, in which art he is a perfect master in every particular. He began the trade at the age of 15, and in this county has worked in Corwin, Lebanon and Mason, and also in Bethany and West Chester in Butler Co., Ohio. He started in life without a dollar of capital, and borrowed $400 with which to make a start. By his large business capacity and a strict, adherence to the old adage, "pluck wins," has made a property which now exceeds a valuation of $10,000. He was married in 1861, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Garner of Virginia, who has borne him one child, viz., John W., a promising young man of Mason and an expert telegraphist. For the present, he is cashier and book-keeper for the well-known Sam C. Bennett. Mr. T. is a great admirer of the equine species, and for fifteen years has operated largely in fancy driving stock and as a true horse man he is known far and wide. |
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