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THORNE, ISAAC NEWTON (1850-1913)

THORNE, ISAAC NEWTON, Baptist minister, Whitneyville and Little Southwest, 1903-07; b. Johnston, Queens Co., N.B., 24 May 1850, s/o James William Thorne and Elizabeth Worden; m. 1st, 1878, Susanna Caroline Kirkpatrick, of Patterson Settlement, Queens Co., and 2nd, Margaret J. Kirkpatrick; d. Saint John, 17 Nov 1913.

I. Newton Thorne was a teacher, a general merchant, and finally a Baptist clergyman, ordained in 1899, at forty-nine years of age. He was the minister at Elgin in Albert County prior to being called to Whitneyville and Little Southwest in 1903. It was said that he used his previous business experience to help his congregations get new churches and parsonages, and while he cannot be given credit for the Whitneyville church that was dedicated on 15 November 1903, he did help have a new parsonage erected in 1904-05.

When Thorne submitted his resignation in October 1907 it was stated that he would be going to Boiestown, but if he did so his pastorate there was very brief. He was ministering at Pennfield in Charlotte County in 1910. Soon afterwards, he suffered a head injury and entered retirement at Cody's, N.B. He was visiting with a brother in Saint John at the time of his death. He was predeceased by both of his wives and by his son N. Foster Thorne, a teacher, newspaper editor, and mayor of Woodstock. Another son, George Thorne, was a merchant at Cody's.

Sources

[b] census [m] Telegraph 1 Jun 1878 [d] Maritime Baptist 26 Nov 1913 / Acadia archives; Advocate 6 Nov 1907, 15 May 1912; annual 1914; Leader 5 Mar 1909; official records (parents' marriage, Queen's Co.)


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