Biography

05/10/1786 - 11/19/1852

THORNTON, Eli, a Representative from Columbia County; born, May 10, 1786 in Northumberland County (now Columbia County), Pa.; blacksmith; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1824-1825 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House; elected, assessor, Hemlock Township (1849-1852); died, November 19, 1852 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Old Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.