 1851 - Unk
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| Name |
Charles Solon Thornton |
| Born |
12 Apr 1851 |
Boston, Massachusetts  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Unk |
| Person ID |
I193 |
Thornton |
| Last Modified |
17 Mar 2014 |
| Father |
Solon Thornton, b. 7 Jul 1821, Alstead, New Hampshire , d. 1902 (Age 80 years) |
| Mother |
Cordelia Angeline Tilden, b. 1826, East Marshfield, Massachusetts , d. Feb 1911 (Age 85 years) |
| Married |
12 Jul 1849 |
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Family ID |
F47 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Jesse Fremont, b. 11 Aug 1864, d. Unk |
| Married |
10 Sep 1883 |
Chicago, Illinois |
| Last Modified |
17 Mar 2014 |
| Family ID |
F48 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- From "New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, Volume II" Edited by William Richard Cutter: "Charles Solon, son of Solon and Cordelia Agneline (Tilden) Thornton, was born April 12, 1831 in boston. He attended the public schools, then prepared for college in the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard College in 1868 and graduated with the class of 1872, with a degree of A. B. He began to study las in the Boston University Law School and continued as a student in the offices of Lyman, Jackson, Isham & Lincoln, the junior partner of this firm being Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Thornton was admitted to the bar, upon examination, at Ottawa in the supreme court of Illinois in September, 1873. He immediately began to practice in Chicago, where he opened an office. At a later date he entered into partnership with Justus Chancellor. Other partners were admitted later. The firm became one of the most prominent and successful in the city. Mr. Thornton made a specialty of corporation and real estate litigation. He has not avoided the other branches of his profession, however, and his success in criminal cases has been repeatedly demonstrated.
In recent years, Mr. Thornton's time has been largely engaged in cases brought against various corporations under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Valentine Law of Ohio and the ant-trust laws of New York and Michigan.
In 1895 he was appointed by the governor of Illinois a member of the state board of education. He has always taken a keen interest in educational matters and originated a number of reforms in the public school system. He made a careful investigation of the Cook County Normal School and his report aroused much attention and discussion. He was a prime mover in establishing the college preparatory school of Chicago and the truant schools of that city. In 1895 he framed a teachers' pension bill, and through he effort and influence the bill was enacted in the legislature. His work in the board of education has been of the greatest benefit both to pupils and teachers in the public schools. In 1879 he was appointed by Mayor Carter Harrison, the corporation counsel of the city of Chicago. He was for a time corporation counsel of Lake, Illinois, now part of the city of Chicago.
Mr. Thornton is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He is a member of Auburn Park Lodge; Auburn Park chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Montjoie Commandery, Knights Templar, Mystic Shrine, Oriental Consistory in Chicago. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Harvard Club of Chicago, the New England Society of Chicago, Engelwood Lodge of Odd Fellows, and in 1896 compiled a code for the use of that order in Illinois. In politics he was a Democrat.
Mr. Thornton married September 10, 1883, Jesse Fremont, born August 11, 1864, daughter of Francis Benton, a native of Vermont, and still living [in 1912]; one of the few surviving members of the Mexican war. Children born in Chicago: Mabel Jessie, born January 19, 1885; educated in the public schools and at the University of Chicago; married John Tutfhill Walbridge, of Chicago, and has two children: Charles Thornton Walbridge and Ruth Walbridge. 2. Pearl Esther, born February 24, 1887; educated in the Chicago public schools and graduated from the University of Colorado. 3. Hattie May, born May 3, 1889, educated in the chicago public schools and the University of Colorado; married Dr. Frank G. Douglass. 4. Chancellor Benton, born June 12, 1896; educated in public and private schools and by private tutors."
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