James Worth Thornton, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames Worth Thornton
American businessman
Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1906
Date of Death: 06-Feb-1983
Profession: socialite
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About James Worth Thornton
- James Worth Thornton (September 19, 1906 – February 6, 1983, Virginia) was a businessman and scion of the politically and socially connected Thorntons of Indiana.
- Thornton was the son of Sir Henry Worth Thornton and Virginia Blair, daughter of banker and steel magnate George Dike Blair.
- Also, Thornton appeared in the journals of Edmund Wilson, the noted essayist. Thornton was born into a prominent family in the railroad business and enjoyed a privileged childhood.
- After graduating from the Royal Military College of Canada, Ontario, while working in Europe, Thornton earned a reputation as an international playboy: he was reportedly an excellent polo player and prominent in social circles.
- While working for a firm in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1931 Thornton married Helene-Marthe (Elena ) Mumm von Schwarzenstein, a German-Russian-French aristocrat and partial heir to the Mumm champagne fortune.
- Her maternal relations (the Struve family) were prominent Russian diplomats and astronomers.
- After marriage, Thornton served as Vice-President of the Mumm family’s American Incorporation.
- Thornton and Elena had one son: Henry Hermann Mumm Thornton, born 1932.
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