Thomas, John J – Thomas, Travers
Thomas, John J
agriculturist, journalist, author, was born Jan. 8,1810, in Aurora, N. Y. He was an agricultural writer of Albany, long on the editorial staff of The Country Gentleman. He edited Rural Affairs, and was author of The American Fruit Culturist; Farm Implements: their Construction and Use; and Farm Implements and Farm Machinery. He died in 1895.
Thomas, John L
lawyer, congressman, was born May 20, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 he was appointed solicitor of the city of Baltimore; and in 1863 was elected state attorney for Maryland. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-ninth congress to fill a vacancy.
Thomas, John R
vocalist, musician, composer, was born in 1830 in South Wales. For many years he was a successful concert singer and also connected with the Sequin English Opera company, finally settling in New York city. His best known songs are The Cottage by the Sea; Happy be Thy Dreams; Some One to Love; and 'Tis But a Little Faded Flower. He has also written Church Music.
Thomas, John R
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1846, in Mt. Vernon, Ill. He served in the union army during the war of the rebelmon, rising from the ranks to a captaincy. He was state's attorney from 1872 to 1876. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; and was re-elected to the fortyeighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Thomas, John R
farmer, educator, legislator, was born Dec. 29, 1862, in Brigham City, Utah. He received a collegiate education and for several years was engaged in educational work. He is president of the board of education of Malad City, Idaho; and in 1897 served with distinction as a member of the Idaho state legislature.
Thomas, John W
railroad president, was born Aug. 24, 1830, in Nashville, Tenn.
Since 1884 he has been president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad.
Thomas, Joseph
lexicographer, author, was born Sept. 23, 1811, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He was an eminent lexicographer of Philadelphia; and the author of A Pronouncing Gazetteer and Dictionary of the World; Gazetteer of the United States; Medical Dictionary; Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology; First Book of Etymology; and Travels in Egypt and Palestine. He died in 1891.
Thomas, Joseph Dio
physician, author, was born May 8, 1843, in Pittsburg, Pa. He occupies the chair of genito-urinary and venereal diseases in the medical department of the Western university; and is the author of a work entitled A Souvenir of Europe.
Thomas, Lawrence Buckley
clergyman, genealogist, was born Dec. 6, 1848, in Baltimore, Md. This eminent clergyman has been rector of parishes of the episcopate in the dioceses of New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He is the author of a Genealogy of the Thomas Family.
Thomas, Lewis Foulke
lawyer, poet, was born in 1815 in Baltimore county, Md. He was a lawyer and verse-writer of Washington; and the author of India, and Other Poems; Cortez the Conqueror, a drama; Osceola, a drama; and Rhymes of the Routes. He died May 26, 1868, in Washington, D. C.
Thomas, Martha Carey
educator, college president, was born Jan. 2, 1857, in Baltimore, Md. She was the first woman who ever received from Zurich the highest degree given by the university of Zurich. During 1885-94 she was dean of the faculty of Bryn Mawr college, and professor of English; and since 1894 has been president of that institution. In 1895 she became a trustee of Cornell university; and is a noted writer and speaker on subjects affecting the higher education of women.
Thomas, Martha Mccannon
author, was born Nov. 15, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. She is the author of Life's Lessons, a Tale; and Captain Phil, a story of the civil war.
Thomas, Mary Von Erden
computer, author, was born Dec. 8, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. She is a computer in the coast survey office at Washington from 1854; and the author of Winning the Battle, a novel.
Thomas, Ormsby B
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1832, in Sandgate, Vt. He was district attorney of Crawford county, Wis., several terms; and was a representative in the Wisconsin legislature in 1862, 1865, and 1867. He was a member of the Wisconsin state senate in 1880 and 1881; and was a presidential elector in 1872. He served as captain of company D, thirty-first regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry in the union army. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Thomas, Philemon
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1764 in North Carolina. He was a member of the legislature of Kentucky. He afterward removed to Louisiana; and in 1810 and 1811 headed the insurrection of Baton Rouge, which threw off the yoke of Spain from West Florida. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1831 to 1835. He died Nov. 18, 1847, in Baton Rouge, La.
Thomas, Philip Evan
college president, philanthropist, was born Nov. 11, 1776, in Montgomery county, Md. He was the father of the railroad system of the United States. He was the founder and first president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company. He died Sept. 1, 1861, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Thomas, Philip Francis
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, governor, was born Sept. 12, 1810, in Easton, Md In 1836 he was a member of the state constitutional convention; and in 1838 was elected to the Maryland statelegislature.
He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841. He was subsequently judge of the land office court of the eastern shore of Mary- In land. In 1843 and 1845 he was elected to the house of delegates; and in 1847 was elected governor of Maryland. In 1860 he was appointed commissioner of the patent office; and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. 1867 he was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1873, but was rejected; and was subsequently elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress. He died Oct. 2, 1890, in Baltimore,
Thomas, Reuen
clergyman, author, was born in 1840 in England. He is a congregational clergyman, pastor of the Harvard church at Brookline, Mass., from 1875; and the author of Through Death to Life; Divine Sovereignty; Grafenburg People; and Leaders of Thought in the Modern Church.
Thomas, Richard
soldier, congressman, was born in 1745. He was a soldier in the revolutionary war; and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1801. He died in 1832 in Philadelphia.
Thomas, Robert Baily
journalist, author, was born April 24, 1766, in West Boylston, Mass. He was an editor for fifty-three years of The Farmer's Almanack, which he first published in 1793 and which is still issued yearly. He died May 19, 1846, in West Boylston, Mass.
Thomas, Robert Harper
journalist, was born Jan. 8, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1870 he purchased the Valley Democrat of Mechanicsburg, changing the name to the Independent Journal, and subsequently to the Farmer's Friend and Grange Advocate. He was commissioner from Pennsylvania to the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial exhibition at New Orleans in 1884-85, and also to the American exposition at London in 1887.
Thomas, Robert William Steph- Enson
educator, clergyman, was born April 9, 1870, in Antigua, British West Indies. He graduated from the Shaw university of Raleigh, N. C., and has filled several important pastorates in the methodist episcopal church. He also fills the chair of sciences in the Bennett college of Greensboro, N. C.; is third vice-president of the North Carolina Epworth league; and secretary of the North Carolina conference of the methodist episcopal church.
Thomas, Seth
clock manufacturer, was born Dec. 1, 1816, in Thomaston, Conn. The Seth Thomas Clock Co. was organized in 1853 in Thomaston, Conn.
When the company was incorporated, Seth became its secretary, eventually rising to be president. The clock works are yet the principal industry of the village.
He died April 28, 1888, in Thomaston, Conn.
Thomas, Stephen
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 6, 1809, in Bethel, Vt. He served in the Vermont legislature in 1838-39, 1845-46; was state senator in 1848-49; register of the probate court of Orange county in 1842- 46; and judge of the same in 1847- 49. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers; and in 1867-68 was lieutenant-governor of Vermont. From 1870 till 1877 he was United States pension agent, and since then has engaged in farming in Vermont.
Thomas, Theodore Gaillard
physician, author, was born Nov. 21, 1831, in Edisto Island, S. C. He is an eminent physician of New York city who has published Diseases of Women; and Abortion and Its Treatment.
Thomas, Thomas
college president, was born Dec. 23, 1812, in England. In 1849 he was elected president of Hanover college, serving until 1855. He died Feb. 3, 1875, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Thomas, Travers
legislator, governor, was born Feb. 3, 1799. He served as a member of the Maryland state legislature; was governor of the state; member of congress; and United States minister to Peru. He died Jan. 22, 1876, in Frederick county, Md. :926