Thomas, Walton True – Thompson, Emma
Thomas, Walton True
educator, was born April 25, 1860, in Edina, Mo.
In 1891 this prominent educator founded the Joplin Business college, Missouri, which has become under his able management one of the leading commercial colleges of the state.
Thomas, William Henry
journalist, author, was born May 5, 1824, in Portland, Maine. He was a journalist and traveler; and the author of Life in the East Indies; A Whaleman's Adventures; A Slaver's Adventures; Running the Blockade; The Belle of Australia; On Land and Sea; Lewey and I; and Ocean Rovers. He died in 1895.
Thomas, William Widgery
state senator, author, was born Aug. 26, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He was a member of the house of representatives of the Maine legislature in 1873-75, and its speaker in 1874-75; became a member of the state senate in 1879; and was United States minister to Sweden and Norway in 1883- 85. He has published The Last Athenian; and Sweden and the Swedes.
Thomasson, William P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Henry county, Ky. He was elected to the Indiana state legislature from Corydon. He moved to Louisville, Ky., about the year 1841; and was chosen a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1843 to 1847. He afterward went to Chicago, Ill., where he was engaged in the practice of his profession until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he served in the union army as a colonel of volunteers.
Thompson, Albert
artist, author, was born March 18, 1853, in Woburn, Mass. Among his works, mainly landscapes and cattle-pieces, are After the Shower; Clearing Up; More Wind than Rain, in Woburn public library; Changing Pasture; and An October After- He is the author of Principles of Perspective. noon.
Thompson, Albert Clifton
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1842, in Brookville, Pa. He served in the union army, rising from the rank of sergeant to that of captain. He moved to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1865; was probate judge of Scioto county from 1869 to 1872; and in 1882 was elected judge of the common pleas for the second subdivision of the seventh judicial district of Ohio. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Thompson, Alexander Ramsay
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1822, in New York city. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city who published Christianity and Patriotism; Casting Down Imaginations, and was the author of many hymns. He died in 1895.
Thompson, Alfred Words- Worth
artist, was born May 27, 1840, in Baltimore, Md. He has traveled at various times in all parts of Europe, Asia Minor, and northern Africa, and his pictures cover a wide range of subjects, oriental and American, including landscapes, genre pieces and military scenes. They include Desolation; Lost in the Forest; Annapolis in 1776, owned by the Buffalo Fine Arts academy; A Twilight in Corsica; The Market-Place in Biskra; The Hour of Prayer; Returning from a Boar Hunt, Tangier; The Advance of the Enemy; and The Departure for the War, 1776.
Thompson, Augustus Charles
clergyman, author, was born April 30, 1812, in Goshen, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman, and pastor of the Eliot church at Roxbury, Mass., from 1842.
He is the author of Lyra Cœlestis, or Hymns on Heaven; Christian's Consolation; Songs in the Night; The Mercy Seat; Foreign Missions; Moravian Missions; Future Probation and Foreign Missions; Our Birthdays; and Protestant Missions.
Thompson, Benjamin
philosopher, economist, was born March 26, 1753, in Woburn, Mass. He gave to science many endowments, both in discoveries and wealth; and it is a matter of national pride that the two men, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Thompson, who first demonstrated the capital propositions of pure science, in regard to lightning and electricity, were Americans by birth and by education. He died Aug. 21, 1814.
Thompson, Benjamin
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1798 in Massachusetts. He was several times a representative in the Massachusetts state legislature. He was twice elected to congress from the fourth district of Massachusetts, serving from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1851 until his death. He died Sept. 24, 1852, in Charlestown, Mass.
Thompson, Cephas
artist, was born July 1, 1775, in Middleborough, Mass. His profession was that of a portrait-painter, ana he made yearly tours in the south, painting in all the cities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Among his portraits were those of John Marshall, Stephen Decatur, David Ramsay of South Carolina, John Howard Payne, and George Washington Parke Custis, who was his pupil. He died Nov. 6, 1856, in Middleborough, Mass.
Thompson, Cephas Giovanni
artist, was born Aug. 3, 1809, in Middleborough, Mass. Besides many portraits and copies from the old masters, he has painted Angel of Truth; Guardian Angels of Infancy; Brigand's Daughter; and Mother's Prayer. He practices his profession in New York city.
Thompson, Charles C. B
naval officer, was born in 1786 in Virginia. Durthe war of 1812 he rendered distinguished service in the defence of New Orleans.
He was promoted captain in 1825, and commanded the Pacific squadron în 1828- 31. He died Sept. 2, 1832, in Hot Springs, Va.
Thompson, Charles Lemuel
clergyman, author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1839, in Cooperstown, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and the author of Times of Refreshing: A History of American Revivals; and Etchings in Verse.
Thompson, Charles Miner
journalist, author, was born in 1864 in Vermont. He is a Boston writer on the editorial staff of The Youth's Companion, and the author of The Nimble Dollar, with Other Stories; and Life of Ethan Allen.
Thompson, Charles P
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 30, 1827, in Braintree, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1871 and 1872, and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Thompson, Charles Russell
educator, public official, was born Aug. 23, 1863, in Spanish Ranch, Cal. He received a thorough education in the public schools and at the university of California. He has attained success as an educator; has been president of the county board of education; county supervisor; and has filled various other public positions of trust.
Thompson, Charles Winston
banker, was born Dec. 30, 1860, in Macon county, Ala. In 1890 he was county superintendent of instruction; is a member of Governor Johnston's staff, and has been president of the Bank of Tuskegee, Ala., since its organization.
Thompson, Cleveland C
public official. He has filled numerous public offices in the city of Plattsburg and the state of Missouri, and is now clerk of the Clinton county circuit court.
Thompson, Daniel Greenleaf
lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in Vermont. He is a lawyer of New York city, and the author of First Book in Latin; A System of Psychology; The Problem of Evil; The Religious Sentiments of the Human Mind; Social Progress; Philosophy of Fiction in Literature; Politics in a Democracy; and Woman's New Opportunity.
Thompson, Daniel Pierce
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 1, 1795, in Charlestown (now a part of Boston), Mass. He was a lawyer of Montpelier, Vt., and the author of Gaut Gurley; May Martin; Green Mountain Boys; Locke Amsden; Lucy Hosmer; The Doomed Chief; The Rangers; Tales of the Green Mountains; Centeola, and Other Tales; and History of Montpelier. He died June 6, 1868, in Montpelier, Vt.
Thompson, David P
state senator, governor, was born Nov. 8, 1834, in Cadiz, Ohio. He was elected state senator from Oregon, serving from 1866-72. In 1878 he served in the lower house of the state legislature, and in 1874-76 he was governor of Idaho.
Thompson, Edward R
naval officer, was born about 1808 in Pennsylvania.
He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1826, became a lieutenant in 1837, served during the Mexican war. In 1867 his rank was raised to that of commodore.
He died Feb. 12, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Thompson, Eliza
was born Aug. 24, 1816, in Hillsboro, Ohio. She was the leader of the first woman's crusade band in the temperance cause in Hillsboro, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1873.
Thompson, Elizabeth
philanthropist, was born Feb. 21, 1821, in Lyndon, Vt. Some years ago she bought three thousand acres at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, near Denver, where, by erecting public buildings, she formed a nucleus for a flourishing settlement. It is said that she has given more than fifteen farms to persons worthy of her gifts, for with philanthropy she also possesses that discrimination which is the needed balance.
Thompson, Emma
author, poet. She is the daughter of Edward Davison, a prominent merchant in Buenos Ayres, and also at one time American minister to what is now the Argentine Republic.
She lived many years in Buenos Ayres, and has traveled extensively in Europe, residing in Brittany for the purpose of studying the people and legends, resulting in the authorship of a volume on Brittany, beautifully illustrated. She is the author of numerous stories, prose articles, and many beautiful poems. She edited and compiled Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote, including the life of Cervantes; and also Wit and Wisdom of Charles Dickens.