Coaticook Knitting Company; and is also president of the Cascade Narrow
Fabric Company, the only concern in Canada where braids of all
descriptions are manufactured. He is one of the directors of the Eastern
Townships Bank, and president of the Coaticook Water Company. In
politics Mr. Thornton is a Liberal-Conservative; and in religion an
adherent of the Methodist church. He belongs to the order of Oddfellows.
He has been twice married. In 1847 to Lucy Baldwin, of Barnston,
province of Quebec, by whom he had two children, a son and daughter, who
still survive; and again on the 17th of June, 1884. to A. H. Cleveland.
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=Mountain, George Jehoshaphat=, second son of Dr. Jacob Mountain, first
bishop of Quebec, and descendant of one of the Huguenots whom the
persecutions of Louis the Fourteenth had driven out of France to take
refuge in Norfolk, England, was born at Norwich, on the 27th of July,