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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.