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Thomas, Charles Clopton – Thomas, Elisha Smith
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, 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.
Thomas, David
merchant, manufacturer, was born Nov. 3, 1794, in South Wales. He founded the anthracite iron industry in the United States. He died June 20, 1882, in Catasauqua, Pa.
Thomas, David
clergyman, was born Feb. 28, 1818, in Adams county, Ohio. He has attained eminence as a clergyman and evangelist, and now fills a pastorate in Winfield, Kas.
Thomas, E. B
railroad president. In 1894-95 he was president of the New York, Lake Erie and Western railway; and since 1895 has been president of the Erie railroad.
Thomas, Ebenezer Smith
journalist, author, was born in June, 1780, in Lancaster, Mass. He was a Cincinnati journalist who published Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-five Years; and Reminiscences of South Carolina. He died in August, 1844, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
THOMAS, MRS. EDITH [CARPEN- TER], author, was born in 18- in New Hampshire. She is a writer of Millville, N. J.; and the author of Lorenzo Di Median Historical Portrait; and Your ci:
Money or Your Life, a novel.
Thomas, Edith Matilda
author, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1854, in Chatham, Ohio. She is a poet and prose-writer, formerly of Geneva, Ohio, but since 1888 of New York city and its vicinity. Beside a volume of prose papers, The Round Year, she has published in verse A New Year's Masque; A Winter Swallow, with Other Verse; Fair Shadow Land; Lyrics and Sonnets; The Inverted Torch; In Sunshine Land; and In the Young World.
Thomas, Elisha Smith
clergyman, bishop, was born March 1, 1834, in Wickford, R. I. He graduated from Yale college and Berkeley Divinity school; and served as rector in Seabury Divinity school of Faribault, Minn. He was second protestant episcopal bishop of Kansas in 1887; and and bishop in 1889. He contributed valuable articles to current literature; and he was also the author of several religious works. He died March 9, 1895, in Topeka, Kan. sas