Thompson, Winfield Scott – Thornburgh, Jacob M
Thompson, Winfield Scott
lawyer, business man, was born June 23, 1842, in Penn Grove, N. J. He received a thorough education; attended Pennington seminary; and in 1865 graduated from the Albany Law School. The same year he moved to Missouri, and has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession in that state, making a specialty of land and real estate titles.
Thompson, Zadock
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 23, 1796, in Bridgewater. He was an episcopal clergyman, professor of natural history in the university of Vermont, and state geologist in 1845-48. He was the author of History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical; Gazetteer of Vermont; Geography and Geology of Vermont; and Guide to Lake George. He died Jan. 19, 1856, in Burlington, Vt.
Thomson, Alexander
congressman, was born Jan. 12, 1788, in Franklin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1824 to 1826. He died Aug. 2, 1848, in Chambersburg, Pa.
Thomson, Charles
patriot, author, was born Nov. 29, 1729, in Ireland. He was a writer of Lower Merion, Pa., who was secretary of the first continental congress during 1774-89. He published Inquiry Into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians; Synopsis of the Four Evangelists; and a noted translation of the Bible, that of the Old Testament being the earliest English version of the Septuagint. He died Aug. 16, 1824, in Lower Merion, Pa.
Thomson, Charles West
clergyman, author, was born in 1798, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman at York, Pa., in 1849-66, who wrote The Limner, in prose; and in verse, The Phantom Barge; The Sylph; Elinor; and The Love of Home. He died April 17, 1879, in York, Pa.
Thomson, Edward
clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 12, 1810, in England. He was a methodist clergyman, president of Ohio Wesleyan university in 1846-60, and the author of Evidences of Revealed Religion; Our Oriental Missions; Educational Essays; Moral and Religious Essays; Biographical Sketches; Letters from Europe; and Letters from India. He died March 21, 1870, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Thomson, Edward William
civil engineer, author, was born in 1849 in Ontario. He is a civil engineer of Boston who was for some years editor-in-chief of The Toronto Globe. He is the author of Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories, a striking collection of short stories; Walter Gibbs, a book for boys; and the metrical portions of M. S. Henry's version of Aucassin and Nicolette.
Thomson, Elihu
electrician, inventor, was born March 29, 1853, in England. In 1876 he became professor of chemistry and physics. To aid in the delivery of lectures at the Franklin institute in 1876- 77, he made a practical dynamo and invented a number of ingenious machines, and, in 1878-79, obtained several patents for electric lighting apparatus.
Thomson, Frederick Bordine
missionary, author, was born Nov. 5, 1809, in New Brunswick, N. J. He published a Dyak Hymn-Book, the first printed book in that language; and Brown's Catechism in Dyak; and translated into the same tongue the Gospel of St. Matthew and the first twenty chapters of Genesis. He left an unfinished work on The Economy of Missions. He died March 3, 1847, in Switzerland.
Thomson, James Bates
educator, author, was born May 21, 1808, in Springfield, Vt. He was an educator of Brooklyn who was a mathematician and conchologist. He published a School Algebra; and Arithmetical Analysis, and a popular series of arithmetics. He died June 22, 1883, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Thomson, John
congressman, was born in 1777 in Franklin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1837. He died Dec. 2, 1852, in New Lisbon, Ohio.
Thomson, John Edgar
civil engineer, railroad president, was born Feb. 10, 1808, in Springfield, Pa. In 1847 he became chief engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad, and in 1852 he was made its president, which office he held until his death. He died May 27, 1874, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Thomson, John I
manufacturer, banker, was born Dec. 28, 1850, in Lancaster, Pa. He has been a member of the city council of Spartansburg, Pa., and for twenty-one years has been secretary of the board of education. He is the proprietor of the Spartansburg Flouring mills; president of the Spartansburg bank, and takes a prominent part in public affairs.
Thomson, John Renshaw
merchant, United States senator, was born Sept. 25, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1820 he established himself as a merchant in Canton, China. He was appointed consul of the United States at that port in 1823, and remained there until 1825. After the year 1830 he engaged in the management of several railways and of the New Jersey canal. He was United States senator from New Jersey from 1853 to 1857; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1863. He died Sept. 13, 1862, in Trenton, N. J.
Thomson, Samuel
physician, author, was born Feb. 9, 1769, in Alstead, N. H. He was a physician of Boston who originated the Thomsonian school of medicine, so called, and the author of Materia Medica and Family Physician; New Guide to Health; and Life and Medical Discoveries. He died in 1843 in Boston, Mass.
Thomson, Samuel Harrison
educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator, and the author of The Mosaic Account of the Creation; and Geology an Interpreter of Scripture. He died Sept. 2, 1882, in Pasadena, Cal.
Thomson, William
surgeon, was born Jan. 28, 1833, in Chambersburg, Pa.
He was with the army of the Potomac throughout the civil war, either in the field or at Washington. He was raised to the post of medical inspector of the department of Washington in 1864, received two brevets, and after the war was sent to Louisiana, but he resigned from the army in 1866.
Thomson, William Hanna
physician, author, was born in 1833 in Syria.
He is a physician of New York city, and the author of The Great Argument, or Jesus Christ in the Old Testament; The Parables and Their Home; and Materialism and Modern Physiology of the Nervous System.
Thomson, William Mcclure
missionary, author, was born Dec. 31, 1806, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a presbyterian missionary in Beyrout in 1833-76, widely known as the author of The Land and the Book. He wrote also The Land of Promise.
Thorburn, Grant
merchant, author, was born Feb. 18, 1773, in Scotland. He was a Scottish nail-maker who came to America in 1794, and subsequently established himself in New York city as a seedsman. He was a noted figure in his day, not only as the hero of Galt's novel, Lawrie Todd, but because of his eccentricities. He was the author of Lawrie Todd's Notes on Virginia; Fifty Years' Reminiscences of New York; Men and Manners in Great Britain; Hints to Merchants, Married Men, and Bachelors; and Forty Years' Residence in America. died Jan. 21, 1863, in New Haven, Conn.
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Thoreau, Henry David
author, poet, was born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Mass. He was all his life a resident of Concord, Mass. A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, and Walden were the only works by him which were published in his lifetime. Those since issued include, Excursions; Maine Woods; Cape Cod; A Yankee in Canada. Early Spring in Massachusetts; Summer; Autumn; Winter, are selections from Thoreau's Journal, edited by H. G. O. Blake. Still other works are, Miscellanies; Letters to Various Persons; Familiar Letters; and Poems of Nature. He died May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass.
Thorington, James
congressman, was born in North Carolina. Removing to Iowa, he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth congress.
Thorington, William Sewell
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 30, 1847, in Montgomery, Ala. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar; has been city attorney of Montgomery, and judge advocategeneral for four years. He has been judge of the city court of Montgomery (law and equity court); associate justice of the supreme court of Alabama (appellate court), and declined re-election in 1892. He was appointed trustee of the State university of Alabama to succeed Hon. H. A. Herbert, and still fills that position. During 1864-65 he was in the confederate service with the Alabama corps of cadets, of which he was adjutant in 1865. This able lawyer and jurist has always been a resident in the place of his nativity. He was the author of several works. In 1897 he was elected dean of the law faculty in the university of Alabama.
Thorn, Frank Manly
superintendent of the coast survey, journalist, public official, was born Dec. 7, 1836, in Collins, N. Y. In 1885 he was appointed chief clerk in the bureau of internal revenue in Washington, and a few weeks later was made superintendent of the United States coast and geodetic survey, which office he still fills.
Thornburgh, Jacob M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 3, 1837, in Newmarket, Tenn. In 1862 he joined the federal army in Kentucky, and was promoted until he became colonel of the fourth Tennessee cavalry in 1863. In 1867 he moved to Knoxville, and was appointed attorney-general of the third district of Tennessee, and was elected to the same position in 1869 and 1870. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and was re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.