I'm looking for biographical information on Minor T. Thomas, born Connersville, Fayette Co., In. in 1830, drugstore clerk in Connersville in the 1850 Census, possibly the first city clerk of Afton Mn. in 1858 (listed as Miner H. Thomas), 2nd Lt. and Capt. in the 1st Minnesota Infantry in 1861, Lt. Col. of the 4th Minnesota Infantry in 1861 and 1862, Col. of the 8th Minnesota Infantry 1862-1865, Brevet Birgadier General on discharge July 11, 1865. Looking for his relationship to Minor Thomas, born about 1770, Baptist minister in Covert, Seneca County NY and in Connersville, Fayette Co. In.