Thornton Fleming Brodhead papers, 1844-1939
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Kearsley, Jonathan.
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Kearsley was born in Va. in 1786 and graduated from Washington College (1811). He was appointed 1st Lt. of the 2nd artillery corps during the War of 1812, and eventually rose to the rank of Assist. Adj. Gen. He lost a leg at Fort Erie. In 1817 Kearsley was appointed receiver of taxes in Va. and in 1819 became receiver of the U.S. Land Office in Detroit, a position he held for over 30 years. He served as Mayor of Detroit, Judge of the Recorder's Court, and as a member of the Board of Regents of t...
United States. Army
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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...
Brodhead, Thornton Fleming, 1820-1862
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Thornton Fleming Brodhead was born in south Newmarket, New Hampshire, on September 22, 1822. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in law. He then moved to Pontiac, Michigan. He soon was appointed prosecuting attorney and then deputy Secretary of State. At age 27, he became a state senator for Michigan. Brodhead enlisted in April 1847 as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant in the 15th U.S. Infantry during the Mexican War, and he was brevetted to the rank of captain on August 20, 1847. He was made a...
Brodhead family,
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