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- Jan. 25?JUDGE DAVID J. THORP died at his home near Weston. His father, Jas. Thorp, a native of Virginia, removed to Kentucky, and thence to Missouri in-1812. He died in Lexington, Mo., in 1836. David J. was born February 14,1820, at Lexington, Mo. In 1838 Mr. D. J. Thorp went to Buchanan County, and thence came to Platte in 1848, having married, May 26, 1846, Sarah E. Linville. He was elected in November, 1878. a justice of the county court of Platte, and reflected in 1880, and for the third term in 1882. He was a man of sound judgment and undeviating truth and honesty, and enjoyed the boundless confidence of the public. He left but one chiid, Coriolanus Thorp. (See.)
Annals of Platte County, Missouri, from its exploration down to June 1 ,1897
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