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Sir Henry Worth Thornton, KBE (6 November 1871 in Logansport, Indiana – 14 March 1933 in New York City) was a businessman and president of Canadian National Railways. His parents were Henry Clay Thornton and Millamenta Comegys Worth. Henry W. Thornton married Virginia D. Blair, from a prominent Pittsburgh family, on June 20, 1901; They had two children: James Worth Thornton and Anna Blair Thornton (Harrison). In 1926 Sir Henry divorced Lady Blair Thornton. He remarried shortly thereafter to Martha Watriss, daughter of prominent attorney and Nassau County Commissioner Frederick N. Watriss. Thornton was General Superintendent of the Long Island Rail Road from 1911 to 1914 and General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway in England from 1914 to 1922. From 1922 to 1932, he was the President of the Canadian National Railways. Thornton played college football at the University of Pennsylvania and served as the head coach of the football team at Vanderbilt University for one season in 1894. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Worth_Thornton

Richard Arthur Norton, Thank you for linking to more information on Thornton. We will add to the record when we update.

The Bain News Agency's photo of Thornton shows him in March, 1914, after his resignation as General Superintendent of the Long Island Railroad, and as he prepared to move with his family from New York to London, England, where he had just received an appointment as General Manager of the Great Eastern Railways (which also operated passenger steamers across the English Channel to Antwerp, Belgium, and the Hook of Holland. New York Times story, February 25, 1914: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9507E4DD113FE6...

H.W. Thronton
Typo in LOC title (caption) – s/b Thornton

Henry Worth Thornton (1871-1933), with his wife, Virginia D. Thornton (nèe Blair) and their two children, James Worth Thornton and Anna Blair Thornton, aboard the Cunard liner Lusitania on March 31, 1914. [1] [2]

An additional LOC/Flickr photograph of H. W. Thornton:

"H.W. Thornton (LOC)" by The Library of Congress

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Worth_Thornton

Richard Arthur Norton and Pixel Wrangler: Thank you for catching the typo and giving us more information about the Thornton family. We will add some of it to the description when we update.