The Pulpit of the American Revolution - J W Thornton torrent

The pulpit of the American revolution: or, The political sermons of the period of 1776. With a historical introduction, notes, and illustrations


About the author:
John Wingate Thornton (August 12, 1818?June 6, 1878) was a United States lawyer, historian, antiquarian, book collector and author.

While studying to become a lawyer, he worked for his uncle, John Fairfield and graduated from Harvard in 1840 with an LL.B. He was awarded an honorary degree of A.M. from Bowdoin College in 1860. He practiced law in Boston, Massachusetts. John Wingate Thornton researched and wrote numerous family genealogies and authored a number of books. In 1844 he was a founding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and authored numerous articles for their publication, the Register. He was a member and Vice-President of the American Statistical Association, a member and Vice-President of the Prince Society, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

He died on June 6, 1878, at the Oak Hill family estate in Scarborough, Maine, and is buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco, Maine