Thomas (ST called Didymus or the twin)
ST., called Didymus, or the twin (this being the meaning of both forms of his name), one of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ. He is presumed to have been a native of Galilee. He is distinguished in sacred history by his disbelief of the resurrection of his Master; on which Jesus vouchsafed to permit him to put his fingers into His wounds, and Thomas exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!" He is supposed to have suffered martyrdom in Coromandel, India, where there are still Christian churches which are called by his name. Efforts have been made by the Roman Catholic theologians of Spanish America to prove that the apostle visited the Western Continent and that St. Thomas was the per-, son who was afterward worshiped as Quetzalcoatl.
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Thomas (V)
JESSE BURGESS, American clergyman; born in Edwardsville, Ill., July 29, 1832; was graduated at Kenyon College in 1850; practised law in Chicago, Ill., in 1857-1862; was ordained in the Baptist Church; pastor of the First Baptist Church, Brooklyn , N. Y., in 1864-1869 and 1874-1888 and of the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church , Chicago, 1869-1874. He accepted the chair of Church History at Newton Theological Institution in 1888. He was the author of "The Old Bible and the New Science"; "The Mould of Doctrine"; and "Significance of the Historical Element in Scripture." He died in 1915.
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Thomas (VI)
JOHN LLOYD, an American humanitarian; born at Witton Park, England, 1857. As a boy he came to this country and finished his education in Utica, N. Y. In 1888 he removed to New York City and became a newspaper writer and editor. In 1896 he became manager of the Mills Hotels and Model Dwellings Corporation , which position he has held ever since. He has lectured on social questions in Canada and Great Britain and throughout this country. For several years he was secretary of the National Prohibition Party. He has made a special study of housing for the working classes in European countries, on which subject he has lectured and written extensively.
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Thomas (VII)
JOHN MARTIN, an American college president; born in Fort Covington, N. Y., 1869. He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary in 1893, after which he was ordained a Presbyterian minister, becoming pastor in East Orange, N. J., where he remained until 1908. In that year he was appointed president of Middlebury College in Vermont. From 1910 until 1914 he was chairman of the Vermont State Board of Education. He is the author of "The Christian Faith and the Old Testament" (1908). During the world war he served as chaplain in the United States Army , with the rank of first lieutenant. an American lexicographer; born in Cayuga co., N. Y., Sept. 23, 1811. He was with Thomas Baldwin, author of "Baldwin's Pronouncing Gazetteer." In 1851-1852 appeared his first book of "Etymology," followed by an edition of Oswald's "Etymological Dictionary." In 1854 he prepared "A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States"; tes"; and and in 1855 "A Complete Geographical Dictionary of the World " (popularly known as "Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World"). In 1864 appeared his comprehensive "Medical Dictionary"; and in 1870 his "Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 24 ,
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Thomas (VIII)
NATHANIEL SEYMOUR, an American bishop; born in Faribault, Minn., 1867. Having finished his schooling in this country he studied at Cambridge, in England. In 1891 he was ordained deacon, and priest in 1893. From 1891 to 1892 he was rector of Grace Church, in Ottawa, Kan., then became professor of ethics at Bethany College, Topeka, Kan. A year later he became professor of theology at the Kansas Theological School, where he remained until 1895, when he received an appointment as chaplain at the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. In 1902 he was elected to the bishopric of Salina, Kan., which he declined. In 1909 he was consecrated Bishop of Wyoming.
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Thomas, Edith Matilda
Edith Matilda (1854-), an American poet. She has contributed to many periodicals, and has published several volumes of poems of great merit. A New Year's Masque, Lyrics and Sonnets, Children of the Seasons, The Inverted Torch,In Sunshine Land, and Fair Shadow Land are titles of some of her volumes.
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Thomas, George Henry
George Henry (1816-1870), a noted American general. He was born in Virginia. He was graduated at West Point in 1840. He saw service in the Seminole War and in the war with Mexico. From 1851 to 1854 he was an instructor at West Point. He entered the Civil War a colonel and came out a major-general. He won the victory of Mill Springs, and led the Union center at the battle of Murfreesboro. He defended the Union position at Chickamauga, September 19, 1863, with such pertinacity that he was dubbed the "Rock of Chickamauga." He was commander-in-chief at the battle of Chattanooga. When Sherman set out on his march to the sea, he left Thomas to oppose Hood. A short campaign resulted in the total defeat of the latter at Nashville. His last command was the department of the Pacific. He died at San Francisco . See Chickamauga , etc.
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Thomas, Theodore
Theodore (1835-1905), a distinguished German-American orchestral leader. He was a native of Hanover. He came to New York in 1845. He accompanied Jenny Lind on her first American tour. In 1878 the music-loving Germans of Cincinnati made him director of the College of Music. He was conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society for several years. In 1891 he established the famous Thomas Orchestra of Chicago. A recital hall was built for him in 1904 at a cost of three quarters of a million dollars, but Conductor Thomas did not live long to enjoy his triumph. The name of Theodore Thomas ranks high in the history of orchestral music.
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Thomasius
CHRISTIAN, a German author; born in Leipsic, Germany, Jan. 1, 1655, studied at Frankfort-on-the- Oder (1675-1679); returned to his native town and lectured on law. In 1687 he adopted the German language in place of the Latin, as the vehicle of his expositions, and commenced an unconventional monthly journal. But this work and his advanced views on theological subjects excited so much opposition that he was forced to leave Leipsic, and went first to Berlin, and afterward (1690) to Halle, where his lectures were the means of establishing a university, since famous. In this university Thomasius became Professor of Jurisprudence. He broke away completely from traditional pedantry and medieval terminology, and was a courageous opponent of trial for witchcraft and the use of torture. His specialty was international law (jus naturale) and ethics. He wrote " "Thoughts and Reminiscences" (1723-1726); and "History of Wisdom and Folly" (1693). He died in Halle, Sept. 23, 1728.
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