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James Worth Thornton
James Worth Thornton (September 19, 1906 – February 6, 1983, Virginia)〔Kussart, S. The History of the Fifteenth Ward of the City of Pittsburgh. Suburban Printing Company, Bellevue, PA; 1925.〕 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,〔Barriger, John Walker. “Sir Henry Thornton: Pioneer.” (speech) Delivered During The 1944 Maine Dinner Of The Newcomen Society〕 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:〔Castronovo, David and Janet Groth. Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson. Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers, 2005〕 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,〔Society listing. TIME. Monday, Sept. 14, 1931〕 a German-Russian-French aristocrat and partial heir to the Mumm champagne fortune.〔See Cape Cod History site: capecodhistory.us/genealogy/wellfleet/i2154.htm〕 Her maternal relations (the de Struve family〔See 1912 listing for Tout-Paris: Annuaire de la Societe parisienne (Names and addresses of ‘society’)〕) were prominent Russian diplomats and astronomers. After marriage, Thornton served as Vice-President of the Mumm family’s American Incorporation.〔The Trade-mark Reporter by The United States Trademark Association 1936. (see page 373)〕 Thornton and Elena had one son: Henry Hermann Mumm Thornton,〔Elena Wilson Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.〕 born 1932.
== 1932–1946 ==
Shortly after marriage, James and Elena Mumm Thornton moved to Montreal and, then, to New York City, where Elena served as an assistant editor for ''Town & Country (magazine)''. While working as an editor, Elena met Edmund Wilson, the prominent author and critic, and fell in love.〔Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy. W.W. Norton & Company. 2000.〕 In 1946, Elena and Edmund fled to Reno, Nevada, divorced their respective spouses, and married, creating a minor media sensation. Elena Mumm Thornton was Edmund Wilson’s fourth wife.〔Meyers, Jeffrey, Edmund Wilson: a biography, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995〕
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