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Herman Thorn

Herman Thorn (1823–1849) was a U.S. Army officer who rose from the enlisted ranks and died serving on the frontier in 1849. A well on a frontier trail in Texas and an army fort in New Mexico was named for him.

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Thorn's Well at Cornudas Station near Dell City, Texas, was named for Lt. Herman Thorn who found it while he was stopped there with a party of 49'ers in the summer of 1849 heading west to California at the beginning of the California Gold Rush. Fort Thorn was named for him by General John Garland who commanded the military department of the New Mexico Territory in 1853. ==References==
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