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Kansas Academy of Science. 



A. H. THOMPSON, D. M. D. 



ALTON HOWARD THOMPSON was born April 8, 1849, at 

 - Logansport, Ind., his parents coming from Juniata county, 

 Pennsylvania, and his childhood was spent in Logansport, 

 Ind., Juniata county, Pennsylvania, and in Dalton, Ga., where 

 his father was in the banking business. In 1866 he studied den- 

 tistry in Mifflintown, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, and after 

 practicing in country towns came to Topeka, Kan., in 1869, 

 where he has practiced till the present. In 1872 he graduated 



ALTON HOWARD THOMPSON. • 



from the Philadelphia Dental College, and during the season 

 of 1899-1900 lectured in that institution. He assisted in the 

 founding of the Kansas City Dental College in 1880, and has 

 lectured there almost continuously ever since, principally on 

 comparative dental anatomy. He has given short courses on 

 the same subject in various other dental colleges. 



