Thorne, John Calvin (1842-1929)

Name:

Thorne, John Calvin (1842-1929)

Title:

Alderman, City of Concord, 1883-1886
President, Common Council, City of Concord, 1877-1878
Member, Council of Associated Charities
Vice-President, Concord Commercial Club
Trustee, New Hampshire Savings Bank, 1880+
Director, New Hampshire Bible Society, 1881-1918
Member, City of Concord, Board of Education, 1883-1888
Member, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1885-1929
Deacon, First Congregational Church, Concord, 1891
Director, YMCA, Concord
Member, Republican Party

Other Names:

Thorne, John C.

Born:

11/06/1842

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

05/10/1929

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Concord, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Shoe Dealer, Thorne Shoe Store Co., Concord 1864-1914
Bank Director

Father:

Thorne, Calvin (1811-1884)

Mother:

Morgan, Cynthia (1804-1892)

Relations:

Inherited shoe business from his father, Calvin C. Thorne; worked with his father since c.1864.
Sibling: Charles Henry Thorne (1848-)

Spouse:

Married Mary Gordon Nichols (1852-1929), July 8, 1873.

Children:

No biological or adopted children, but brought up:
Worcester, Waldo Thorne (1872-1903; son of Susan Pitts and Hiram Worchester; cousin of John Thorne; m. Mabel Cooper Snow; worked in shoe store with John Thorne)
Chandler, Elsie A. (1887-; dau. of Elizabeth Ferguson and Henry Chandler; m. James A. Hayes)

Notes:

Secured the Sabine Collection for the New Hampshire Historical Society (4,000 volumes for the library); also secured land and large donations.

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. A Reocrd of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume IV. (New York: the Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 2009-2012.

Henry H. Metcalf, Compiler and Editor. One Thousand New Hampshire Notables. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1919), 298-299.