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T. M. THORNBURY, farmer; P. O. Randolph; is a native of Chester Co., Penn., where he was born Aug. 17, 1829, where he lived until he was 23 years of age, during which time he learned the carpenter’s trade, and followed it for seven years: he then engaged in butchering and marketing, at West Chester and Philadelphia, continuing in the business ten years. In 1862, he came West to Illinois, and settled on a farm three miles east of Bloomington, and lived there until 1867, when he moved to Bloomington, and entered into partnership with E. Barber, and built the Union Flouring Mills of that place; he finally sold his interest, and bought the flouring-mill and warehouse at Shirley, and conducted the business there for a year and a-half, when he sold out the business; during this time he resided in Bloomington; he then moved to a farm about three miles northwest of Bloomington, and remained there until 1865, when he came to his present place. Oct. 10, 1861, he married Mrs. Mary A. Preston, formerly Miss Mary A., Price; she is a native of Philadelphia.