Thompson, Maurice
soldier, geologist, state legislator, author, poet, was born Sept. 9, 1844, in Fairfield, Ind. He is a writer of Crawfordsville, Ind., who was a confederate soldier during the civil war, and state geologist of Indiana, 1885- 89, and has been a member of the Indiana state legislature. His work in fiction includes, A Tallahassee Girl; His Second Campaign; At Love's Extremes; A Fortnight of Folly; The Ocala Boy; and King of Honey Island. Other works are, Hoosier Mosaics, a volume of sketches; The Witchery of Archery; Songs of Fair Weather; Byways and Bird Notes; Sylvan Secrets; The Story of Louisiana; Poems (1892); and Lincoln's Grave, a Poem.
THOMPSON, MERRIWETHER JEFF, soldier, civil engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 22, 1826, in Harper's Ferry, Va. He was appointed brigadier-general in the Missouri state guards early in 1861, and in the confederate army in October of that year. He was the inventor of a hempbreak, which is now in general use, and an improved pistol-lock. He died in July, 1876, in St. Joseph, Mo.