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JAMES
M. THORMAN (THOROMAN)was born May 26, 1844, in
Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio. His father was
Samuel Thoroman and his mother's maiden name was Jane
McNeilan. She was born near Omagh, in Ireland.
His paternal great-grandmother was a sister of Col. William
Crawford, who was burned by the Indians at Tymochtee on
June 11, 1782. His maternal grand-father was an
adventurous Orangeman in Ireland. Our subject received a
common school education. Afterwards he took a complete
mercantile course at Bacon's Mercantile College in Cincinnati.
In the Fall of 1864, he began as school teacher and taught one
term. He entered Company D, 191st O. V. I., February 12,
1865, and was made a Corporal. He served until August
27, 1865, when he was discharged. After his return from
the army he taught school, at intervals, for eighteen years.
In 1885, he was a Township Trustee of Tiffin Township.
In 1866, he was elected Treasurer of the Township and served
in that capacity continuously for eleven years. He was a
clerk and bookkeeper in the banking house of G. B. Grimes &
Co., at West Union, from February 28, 1882 to September
20, 1889. He was retained by the assignees of the bank
and held the funds until the bank paid sixty per cent in
settlement.
On September 19, 1889, he was nominated by his party
for Clerk of the Courts, but the banking house of Grimes &
Co., failed the following day and he declined to stand for
the office. Since 1868, he has been a member of the
Christian Union Church and served as Recording elder and
Superintendent of the Sunday School for many years.
He was married to Miss Mary M. McCormick,
November 3, 1869. There are two sons of this marriage,
William Mc. Thoroman, of West Union, and Floyd E.
Thoroman, of Portsmouth, Ohio. The mother of these
sons died March 21, 1880. His son, Floyd E. Thoroman,
was a member of Company H, Fourth O. V. I., in the Spanish
War.
Our subject was married a second time to Miss Mary
Eliza Cunningham, November 14, 1883. She died
November 14, 1886. On July 17, 1889, he was married to
Miss Emma F. Baird. Of this marriage there were
three children. Arthur, a son, deceased, and two
daughters, May and Olga.
Mr. Thoroman is a man of high character, and of
correct life. He possesses the confidence of all who
have ever known him and is respected by the entire community.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
J. WESLEY
THOROMAN, son of Oliver Thoroman, was born March 21,
1828, on the old homestead farm one mile north of Dunkinsville,
Ohio. He was reared on the farm, and followed that
occupation through life. He attained a good common
school education, and was well qualified to fill any position
in the ordinary affairs of life. March 3, 1853, he
married Almira Mason, a daughter of Squire Samuel S.
Mason, of Tiffin Township, Adams County. To this
union there were born Lyman O., Theodore M., Sallie J.,
Wesley H., Anna, and I. J., the fourth son, now
residing on the old home farm. The subject of this
sketch was a man very highly esteemed in the community in
which he lived. He was a member of the Odd Fellows
fraternity in good standing at the time of his decease,
November 28, 1890. In politics, he was a Democrat of the
Jeffersonian type.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
WILLIAM T.
THOROMAN of Wheat, was born on Wheat Ridge, February 15, 1844.
He is a son of John Thoroman and his wife, Rosanna
Hamilton. He was brought up on his father's
farm working in Summer and attending the District school in
Winter, in which he received a good common school education.
He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 182d O. V. I., and was
mustered into service at Cincinnati, September 28, 1864, and
honorably discharged at Nashville, July 7, 1865. This
regiment belonged to the Engineering Corps of the Army of the
Cumberland, and took part in the battle of Nashville, December
15-16, 1864. Returning to Adams County after the
war, he married Miss Harriet C. Elliott, February 29,
1872, daughter of John Elliott, who married Mary
Collier, a daughter of
Colonel Daniel Collier,
whose sketch appears elsewhere. The children of
William T. Thoroman and wife are: Ola C., Lloyd
A., and Laura B., deceased. Mr. Thoroman
is a Republican and was Census Enumerator for Oliver Township
in 1890. He is a member of the M. E. Church at
Dunkinsville.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
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NOTES:
(SHARON WICK'S NOTE:
There are more Thoroman family members mentioned in the
biography of Samuel Jones)
On Page 148 of this History book it mentions James T. Thoroman as a
Recorder from January, 1862 to January, 1865 in Adams County, Ohio.
On Page 865-866 is Oliver Thoroman Sproull biography.
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