Richard Hopwood Thornton papers 1855-1932

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Richard Hopwood Thornton papers 1855-1932

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Papers of the founding dean of the University of Oregon School of Law and an Episcopal clergyman. Includes personal documents, biographical and genealogical information, writings, notes, reminiscences, and a small amount of correspondence relating to Episcopal missionary work. Also includes writings of Thornton's father, William Lockwood Thornton.

1 cubic foot; 2 document cases, 1 oversize folder

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6377978

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Thornton Family

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Hopwood Family

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University of Oreogn. School of Law.

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Thornton, William L. (William Lockwood), 1811-1865

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Thornton, Richard H. (Richard Hopwood), 1845-1925

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The son of a prominent English Wesleyan clergyman and Latin tutor, Richard Hopwood Thornton was born in 1845 in Didebury, Lancashire, England. After attending New Kingswood School near Bath, he passed the entrance examination for Oxford University in 1862, but instead entered a London business house. After a visit to Paris in 1870 he went to Canada in 1871 where he taught school in various places. Receiving a small legacy from his mother in 1874, he travelled throughout North Americ...