Thompson (SIR HENRY an English surgeon)
SIR HENRY, an English surgeon; born in Framlingham, England, Aug. 6, 1820; was educated at University College, London; appointed surgeon of the University College Hospital (1863); Professor of Clinical Surgery (1866), consulting surgeon (1874). In 1884 he was made Professor of Surgery and Pathology in the Royal College of Surgeons, London. He was surgeon extraordinary to Leopold I., King of Belgium (1864) and to Leopold_II. d II. (1866); and was knighted in 1867. He was the first medical man in England to bring the subject of cremation before the public, and was president of the Cremation Society of London from its organization in 1874. He wrote many medical works, several of which have been translated into the chief languages of Europe. He is also known as a painter, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, and the Salon, Paris. Among his works are "Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra" (1886); "Practical Lithotrity and Lithotomy" (1863); "Tumors of the Bladder" (1884); "Cal culous Disease" (1888); "Modern Cremation, Its History and Practice" (1889); two novels, "Charley Kingston's Aunt" (1885), and "All and "All But" (1886). He died in London, April 18, 1904.
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Thompson (V)
HUSTON, United States Federal Trade Commissioner; born in Lewisburg, Pa., 1875; graduated from Princeton in 1897, then studied law at the New York Law School. He began his law practice in 1899 in Denver, Colo., became lecturer on law at the University of Denver Law School (1903-6), then assistant attorney-general of Colorado (1907-9). In 1913 he became an assistant attorney-general of the United States. In 1918 he was appointed Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission to fill an unexpired term and was re-appointed in 1919.
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Thompson (VI)
JAMES WESTFALL, an American university professor; born in Pella, Ia., 1869; graduated from Rutgers College and studied in the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1895 he became assistant professor of history in the University of Chicago, being finally professor of medical history in 1913. He has written a number of works, among which are: "Development of French Monarchy Un- ; "The Last der Louis VI" (1895); Pagan" (1916); and a number of contributions to various magazines.
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Thompson (VII)
JOSEPH ADDISON, an American college president; born at Ross Grove, De Kalb co., Ill., 1860, graduated from Monmouth College, 1882, and studied_at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the ministry in 1886, and became president of Tarkio College, in 1887. He was a member of the 9th General Council of the Alliance of Reformed Churches and a member of the State Executive Committee of the Y. M. C. A. in Missouri since 1908.
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(JAMES) MAURICE, an American author; born in Fairfield, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844. He was a Confederate soldier in the Civil War; afterward State geologist of Indiana, 1885-1889. He wrote nature studies. He published in book form: "Hoosier Mosaics" (1875); "The Witchery of Archery" (1878); "A Tallahassee Girl" (1882); "Songs of Fair Weather" (1883); "At Love's Extremes" (1885); "Byways and Bird Notes" (1885); "Sylvan Secrets" (1887); "A Fortnight of Folly" (1888); "The Story of Louisiana" (1888); "Poems" (1892); "King of Honey Island" (1892); "The Ethics of Literary Art" (1893); "The Ocala Boy" (1895); "Alice of Old Vincennes" (1900). He died Feb. 15, 1901. can inventor; born in Glasgow, Scotland, travesty of "Hiawatha"; "The Witches of in 1838; came to the United States in 1848, and assumed charge of the Sprague Cotton Mill in Baltic, Conn., in 1864. Subsequently he was president of the Voluntown, Robeson and other cotton mills, and invented 14 distinct mechanical devices, each of which produced a radical improvement ment in methods of carding, stop and let-off motions, and selfthreading shuttles. He died in Olneyville, R. I., Sept. 16, 1899.
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Thompson, James Maurice
tom'son, James Maurice (1844-1901), an American writer. He was a native of Fairfield, Indiana, but was educated in Georgia. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Although he practiced civil engineering and law at Crawfordsville, Indiana, he was first of all an enthusiastic naturalist. From 1885 to 1889 he was state geologist of Indiana. He cruised the swamp region of the South Atlantic coast with canoe, bow, and arrow . He disliked the noise of a gun and the dismay it caused among wild animals. One of his earliest books is entitled The Witchery of Archery; another Byways and Bird Notes; and still another, The Boys' Book of Sports. Of several excellent tales, the most noted and the one on which his fame will rest ultimately is Alice of Old Vincennes, an interesting and well told tale of the French outpost.
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Thompson-Seton
ERNEST, an American author and artist; born in South Shields, England, Aug. 14, 1860; lived in the backwoods of Canada in 1866- 1870, and on the Western plains in 1882- 1887; was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and Royal Academy, London: became official naturalist to the government of Manitoba; studied art in Paris in 1890-1896; was one of the chief illustrators of the "Century Dictionary" and author and illustrator of "Wild Animals I have Known," "The Biography of a Grizzly," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," "Wild Animal Play for Children," "Lives of the Hunted," etc., and became a popular lecturer on wild animal life. In December, 1901, his name was legally changed from Seton-Thompson to Thompson-Seton.
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Thoms
WILLIAM JOHN, an English author; born in Westminster, England, Nov. 16, 1803. He began life as a clerk in the Chelsea Hospital; later was clerk to the House of Lords, and its deputy-librarian in 1863-1882; was secretary of the Camden Society from 1838 till 1873; founder of "Notes and Queries" (1849), and its editor down to 1872. He gave the name ("Atheneum," August, 1846) to the new subject of study, "folklore." His books include: "A Collection of Early Prose Romances" (3 vols., 1828; enlarged ed. 1858); "Lays and Legends of Various Nations" (4 vols., 1834); Anecdotes " and Traditions Illustrative of Early English History and Literature" (Camden Soc., 1838); "Hannah Lightfoot, Queen Charlotte, and Chevalier D'Eon" (1867); "Human Longevity" (1873); besides a translation of Worsaae's "Primeval Antiquities of Denmark" (1849); and an edition of Stow's Survey " of London" (1875). He died in London, Aug. 15, 1885.
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