Thayer, W. W – Thomas, David
Thayer, W. W
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born July 15, 1827, in Lima, N. Y. He was a representative in the Idaho territorial legislature in 1866; and in that year was elected district attorney.
In 1867 he moved to Portland, Oregon; and in 1878 was elected governor of Oregon, and served four years. are THAYER. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1820, in Franklin, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman who retired from the ministry, and living at Franklin, Mass., devoted himself to authorship. His books, which have been extraordinarily popular, mainly intended for juvenile reading.
Among them are, Youths' History of the Rebellion; The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; The Printer Boy; The Poor Boy and the Merchant Prince; Turning Points in Successful Careers; Marvels of the New West; The White House Series; Aim High: Hints for Young Men; Life of Gar-> field; Men Who Win; and Women Who Win. ma-
Thayer, William Roscoe
educator, poet, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. He was formerly an instructor at Harvard university. His writings in verse include, The Confessions of Hermes; Hesper; Poems, New and Old. He has published, also, The Dawn of Italian Independence; and The Best Elizabethan Plays.
Theaker, Thomas Clarke
chinist, congressman, was born Feb. 1, 1812, in York county, Pa. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress; and was subsequently appointed one of a board of commissioners to examine into the affairs of the patent office. In 1865 he was appointed commissioner of patents. He died July 16, 1883, in Oakland, Md.
Thebaud, Augustine J
clergyman, author, was born in 1807 in France.
He was a Roman catholic clergyman and educator of New York city; and the author of The Irish Race in the Past and Present; Louisa Kirkbride, a tale of New York; The Church and the Moral World; and The Twit-Twats, a bird allegory. He died Dec. 17, 1890, in Fordham, N. Y.
Theller, Edward Alexander
physician, journalist, was born about 1810 in East Canada. He was a Canadian physician who, for his activity in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He escaped to the United States, and was subsequently a journalist in California and superintendent of schools in San Francisco. He was the author of Canada in 1837-38. He died in 1859, in Honitas, Cal.
Thibodeaux, B. G
congressman, was born in Louisiana. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term ending in 1849. He died in March, 1866, in Terrebonne, La.
Thibodeaux, Henry Schuyler
governor, was born in 1769 in Albany, N.
Y. His early days were passed in Scotland, coming to Louisiana in 1794. In 1805 he was elected a member of the territorial legislature, and became a justice of the peace in 1808. He was three times elected senator of the general assembly. In 1824 he completed, as acting governor, the unexpired term of Governor Robertson.
The town of Thibodeauville, La., was named in his honor.
Thickstun, Thomas
clergyman, poet, was born July 3, 1824, in Cassewago, Pa. He is an eminent baptist clergyman of Iowa; now fills a pastorate in the baptist church of Council Bluffs, of which church he was the principal founder. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Thieblin, Nicolas Leon
journalist, author, was born in 1834 in Italy. He was a journalist of London, and after 1874 of New York city. He was Spanish correspondent of The Herald in the Carlist war; and the author of A Little Book About Great Britain; and Spain and the Spaniards. He died in 1889.
Thienpont, Emanuel
clergyman, clergyman, was born in 1803 in Belgium. He was the pioneer secular priest of Ohio, and was the first to build Roman catholic churches in Dayton, Portsmouth, Steubenville and other places in the state. He died Oct. 19, 1873, in Logan, Ohio.
Thoburn, James Mills
missionary, bishop, author, was born March 7, 1836, in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He is a methodist missionary, bishop in India and Malaysia since 1888; and the author of Missionary Addresses; My Missionary Apprenticeship in New York; India and Malaysia; Light in the East; The Deaconess and Her Vocation; and Christless Nations.
Thom, George
soldier, was born Feb. 21, 1819, in Derry, N. H. He became colonel of engineers in 1880, and was brevetted brigadier-general United States army, for faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.
Thom, James Crawford
artist, was born March 22, 1835, in New York.
Since his return to the United States in 1872 many of his pictures have found their way into private galleries in this country. Among the paintings that he executed while abroad are By the Riverside; Returning from the Wood; Tired of Waiting; Going to School; and The Monk's Walk.
Thomas, Abel Charles
clergyman, author, was born June 11, 1807, in Exeter, Pa. He was a universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, and for a short time in Lowell, where he established the Lowell Offering, a periodical written by the factory operatives. He was the author of Allegories and Divers Day Dreams; Centenary of Universalism; Discussions on Universalism; The Christian Helper; and Autobiography. He died Sept. 28, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Thomas, Albert D
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 17, 1841, in Williamsport, Ind. He has served as judge of the court of common pleas, and during 1873-79 was judge of circuit court at Crawfordsville, Ind.
Thomas, Allen Clapp
author, was born Dec. 26, 1846. He is librarian and professor of history in Haverford college, Pa., and the author of a History of the United States.
Thomas, Amos Russell
physician, author, was born Oct. 3, 1826, in Watertown, N. Y. He is a Philadelphia physician, dean of Hahnemann Medical college; and the author of Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy.
Thomas, Arthur L
governor, was born Aug. 22, 1851, in Chicago, Ill. In 1879 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City. In 1880 he was appointed United States supervisor of the census for the district of Utah. He was acting governor of the territory during the legislative session of 1879-80, during a part of the session of 1881-82, for three months in 1881, and again in 1883; and in the latter year was reappointed secretary for a second term. During 1889-93 he was governor of Utah.
Thomas, Benjamin
railroad president. In 1891 he was elected president of the Chicago and Western Indiana railroad and Belt railway of Chicago.
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a jurist of Worcester, Mass.; and the author of Digest of Laws of Massachusetts in Relation to Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Towns and Town Officers; and Life of Isaiah.
Thomas. He died Sept. 27, 1878, in Salem, Mass.
Thomas, Benjamin Franklin
educator, clergyman, was born March 16, 1849, in Mifflin, Pa. For many years he was engaged in educational work; and was admitted to the St. Louis conference: of the methodist episcopal church in 1881.
He served six years on circuits in southeastern Missouri; five years in the city of St. Louis; two years on Lebanon Station; and since 1892 has been presiding elder of the Rollo district.
Thomas, Benjamin S
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1842; and was appointed judge of probate for the county of Worcester in 1844. In 1853 he was appointed to the bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts. In 1861 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh congress.
Thomas, Charles Clopton
lawyer, legislator, was born July 4, 1873, in Waycross, Ga. This rising young lawyer was a member of the house of representatives of Georgia in 1896-97.
Thomas, Charles R
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1827, in Carteret county, N. C. He was elected one of the judges of the superior court of North Carolina in 1868; and was elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.
Thomas, Christopher Y
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 24, 1818, in Pittsylvania, Va. In 1859 he was elected to the state senate for four years; and in 1869 was again elected to the legislature. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the fortythird congress.
Thomas, Cyrus
ethnologist, author, was born July 27, 1825, in Kingsport, Tenn. He was a noted ethnologist and entomologist in the government service; and the author of Actidide of North America; Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois; Study of the Manuscript Troano.; Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts; Aids to the Study of the Maya Chronicles; The Cherokees and the Shawnees in Pre-Columbian Times; Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains; and Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology.
Thomas, D. B
congressman. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth congress, but was not declared entitled to his seat until near the end of the first session of that. congress.
Thomas, David
soldier, congressman, was born June 11, 1762, in Pelham, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1801 to 1808 from Salem; served four years in the assembly of that state; and also held the position of state treasurer. He was also major-general of the state militia. He died Nov. 26, 1831, in Providence, R. I.
Thomas, David
pomologist, civil en gineer, author, was born in 1776 in Montgomery county, Pa. He was a pomologist. and engineer, once prominent in western New York; and the author of Travels in the West. He died in 1859, in New York.