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Thieblin, Nicolas Leon – Thomas, Benjamin S
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, 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.