Daughter of Jasper N. Clark and Fannie Ella Potter Clark. Wife of Ralph Thorn, no children.
Obit: Buffalo Evening News, 4/22/1954 issue, p. 37: Mrs. Ralph Thorn, Historian of Orchard Park Area Dies ... an authority on the historical background of the Orchard Park area ... One of the oldest natives of the village, [she] doted on recounting its past always with a touch of good humor. When asked in 1949 as a member of the Study Club to prepare a paper on bygone days in the village (her) paper was so complete the Study Club had it printed in a book form and under the title, "In the Long, Long Ago" this book was sold throughout the Western New York area. She had interviewed all the old natives to get the source material making it an authentic document. She had a natural penchant for writing fostered by her late husband Ralph C. Thorn former Buffalo Evening News staff member. .. After her marriage to Mr. Thorn they built two charming homes at separate times in Clark St. (Orchard Park) on the spot of the first Erie County Fair in her grandfather's woods. Two years ago [i.e., 1952] she was instrumental in founding the Orchard Park Historical Society..
Obit: Buffalo Evening News, 4/22/1954 issue, p. 37: Mrs. Ralph Thorn, Historian of Orchard Park Area Dies ... an authority on the historical background of the Orchard Park area ... One of the oldest natives of the village, [she] doted on recounting its past always with a touch of good humor. When asked in 1949 as a member of the Study Club to prepare a paper on bygone days in the village (her) paper was so complete the Study Club had it printed in a book form and under the title, "In the Long, Long Ago" this book was sold throughout the Western New York area. She had interviewed all the old natives to get the source material making it an authentic document. She had a natural penchant for writing fostered by her late husband Ralph C. Thorn former Buffalo Evening News staff member. .. After her marriage to Mr. Thorn they built two charming homes at separate times in Clark St. (Orchard Park) on the spot of the first Erie County Fair in her grandfather's woods. Two years ago [i.e., 1952] she was instrumental in founding the Orchard Park Historical Society..
Daughter of Jasper N. Clark and Fannie Ella Potter Clark. Wife of Ralph Thorn, no children.
Obit: Buffalo Evening News, 4/22/1954 issue, p. 37: Mrs. Ralph Thorn, Historian of Orchard Park Area Dies ... an authority on the historical background of the Orchard Park area ... One of the oldest natives of the village, [she] doted on recounting its past always with a touch of good humor. When asked in 1949 as a member of the Study Club to prepare a paper on bygone days in the village (her) paper was so complete the Study Club had it printed in a book form and under the title, "In the Long, Long Ago" this book was sold throughout the Western New York area. She had interviewed all the old natives to get the source material making it an authentic document. She had a natural penchant for writing fostered by her late husband Ralph C. Thorn former Buffalo Evening News staff member. .. After her marriage to Mr. Thorn they built two charming homes at separate times in Clark St. (Orchard Park) on the spot of the first Erie County Fair in her grandfather's woods. Two years ago [i.e., 1952] she was instrumental in founding the Orchard Park Historical Society..
Obit: Buffalo Evening News, 4/22/1954 issue, p. 37: Mrs. Ralph Thorn, Historian of Orchard Park Area Dies ... an authority on the historical background of the Orchard Park area ... One of the oldest natives of the village, [she] doted on recounting its past always with a touch of good humor. When asked in 1949 as a member of the Study Club to prepare a paper on bygone days in the village (her) paper was so complete the Study Club had it printed in a book form and under the title, "In the Long, Long Ago" this book was sold throughout the Western New York area. She had interviewed all the old natives to get the source material making it an authentic document. She had a natural penchant for writing fostered by her late husband Ralph C. Thorn former Buffalo Evening News staff member. .. After her marriage to Mr. Thorn they built two charming homes at separate times in Clark St. (Orchard Park) on the spot of the first Erie County Fair in her grandfather's woods. Two years ago [i.e., 1952] she was instrumental in founding the Orchard Park Historical Society..
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