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Brodhead, Thornton Flemings

Born
1820
Birthplace
New Hampshire
Titles and Honors
-Owner and editor of Detroit Free Press
-City Postmaster, 1853
-State Senator, 1855
Occupation
-Colonel, 1st Michigan Cavalry, during Civil War

-Came to Detroit in 1846
-Killed at second battle of Bull Run
Spouse
Archange Macomb
Children
Mrs. William D. Balfour
John Thornton
Mrs. J. Kearsley Webster
Eleanor Macomb
Katherine Julia
Mrs. J.B. Howard
Nationality
American