OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (THOBURN THOMPSON.) 



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Church in Salem. From September, 1802, to June, 

 1803, he was in the field as chaplain of the 40th 

 Massachusetts Infantry. In February, 1804, he 

 resigned his pastorate and became Professor of 

 Sacred Literature in Andover Theological Semi- 

 nary. He held this chair eighteen years, and then 



removed to Cam- 



bridge, where in 

 1884 he was cho- 

 sen Bussey Pro- 

 fessor of New 

 Testament Criti- 

 cism in Harvard 

 Divinity School. 

 He held that pro- 

 fessorship continu- 

 ously till 1901, 

 when he was made 

 professor emeri- 

 tus. Meanwhile 

 he was a member 

 of the Harvard 

 Corporation from 

 1877 to 1884, and 

 from the autumn 

 of 1872 to the au- 

 tumn of 1880 he was a member of the American 

 Committee of Revision of the New Testament, and 

 acted as its secretary. The committee held 

 monthly meetings in New York during the eight 

 years of its existence. Prof. Thayer was one of 

 the last survivors of its seventeen members, and 

 was very active in the preparation of the Ameri- 

 can Standard Edition of the Revised New Testa- 

 ment, which was brought out in August, 1901. 

 His original publications were these: A bio- 

 graphical sketch of Ezra Abbot (1884) ; a Greek- 

 English Lexicon of the New Testament (1886); 

 The Change of Attitude toward the Bible (1891) ; 

 Books and their Use (1893); and contributions 

 to Smith's Bible Dictionary, Hastings's Diction- 

 ary of the Bible, and the Journal of Biblical 

 Literature, besides occasional sermons and re- 

 views. He edited Abbot's Critical Essays (1888), 

 and Sophocles's Greek Lexicon (1888); translated 

 Winer's New Testament Grammar (1869) and 

 Buttmann's New Testament Grammar (1873), 

 and wrote the notes to Scrivener's Plain Introduc- 

 tion (1885). His Lexicon of the New Testament 

 is spoken of by scholars as a monument of learn- 

 ing and labor. In 1864 he was made A.M. at 

 Harvard; he received the degree of D. D. from 

 Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and in 1892 the 

 degree of Litt. D. from Trinity College, Dublin, 

 Ireland. He was a member of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, the American Oriental 

 Society, the American Philological Association, 

 and the Society of Biblical Literature and Ex- 

 egesis. Prof. Thayer was prominent in the work 

 of establishing the new School for Archeological 

 Study at Jerusalem, in which he, more perhaps 

 than any one else, took the initiative, and to 

 which he gave unremitting effort in the last 

 year of his life. 



Thoburn, Isabella, missionary, born near St. 

 Clairsville, Ohio, March 29, 1840; died in Luck- 

 now, India, Sept. 1, 1901. She was educated at 

 Wheeling Female Seminary, studied drawing and 

 painting in Cincinnati, and for a long time was 

 a teacher. In November, 1869, she sailed for 

 India as the first representative of the Women's 

 Foreign Missionary Society. She settled in Luck- 

 now, where her brother, Dr. James M. Thoburn, 

 had been an active missionary ten years. From 

 that time till her death this was the center of her 

 work. She was for many years president of the 

 College for Women and Girls in Lucknow. 



Thomas, John Kochester, architect, born in 

 Rochester, N. Y., Juno 18, JH4S; died at West- 

 minster Park, Thousand Islands, Aug. 27, 1901. 

 He was educated in the public schools', and later 

 pursued a university course but did not take a 

 degree. His architectural training was received 

 under Merwin Austin, whose oflice he entered 

 when fifteen years old. He began to practise his 

 profession in 1868. In 1874 he was commissioned 

 by Gov. Dix as architect and sole commissioner 

 for the erection of the Elmira State Reformatory. 

 He went to New York city in 1882 to supervise 

 the erection of the Baptist Church in West Fifty- 

 Seventh Street. In addition to more than 150 

 churches, he designed the asylum at Willard, 

 N. Y., the 8th Regiment Armory in New York 

 city, the New Jersey State Reformatory at Rah- 

 way, and the eastern New York Reformatory at 

 Ellenville. Among his notable achievements was 

 the building of the two drill-rooms of the com- 

 bined armories of the 71st Regiment and the 2d 

 Battery, one above the other, free from all col- 

 umns, and 150 by 200 feet in area. In 1896 his 

 design for a new City Hall received the first prize 

 among 133 designs. His latest commission was 

 the planning of the new Hall of Records for New 

 York city, 



Thompson, George W., actor, born in New 

 York city in 1836; died there, June 12, 1901. He 

 made his first appearance on the stage of the old 

 Chatham Theater, in New York, when fifteen 

 years old, and played successively at the Broad- 

 way Theater, the Adelphi Theater, in Troy, N. Y., 

 Barnum's Museum, and on a Western tour with 

 a traveling company till 1856, when he became 

 leading man at the Old Bowery, then under the 

 management of Fox and Lingard. Here he played 

 in support of Edwin Forrest, E. L. Davenport, 

 John E. Owens, Edward Eddy, Lucille Western, 

 and others, till the destruction of the theater by 

 fire in 1866. For the next three seasons he was 

 leading man in Pastor's company, and then for 

 one year managed the SeaveyOpera-House, Brook- 

 lyn. In 1868, Mr. Thompson with some of his 

 friends organized the order of Jolly Corks, the 

 name of which was afterward changed to the 

 Elks. In the season of 1870-71 he made a star- 

 ring tour on the Pacific coast, and for the three 

 years following was engaged in managerial ven- 

 tures in St. Louis and St. Joseph, Mo. In 1875 

 he starred jointly with Gus Phillips in his own 

 play, Yacup, acting alternately Irish and German 

 characters. He was next successively leading 

 man at Fox's and the New National Theaters, in 

 Philadelphia, and for the three seasons following 

 1878 played the leading part in The Gold King. 

 He was next engaged to support Louis Aldrich 

 in My Partner, and remained with him a long 

 time, taking Mr. Aldrich's place in the star r6le 

 during the latter's severe illness. He afterward 

 played in Bartley Campbell's Siberia, and for nine 

 seasons with Harry Williams in The Waifs of 

 New York and The Bowery Girl, and in support 

 of Frank Daniels and Katie Emmett. He was 

 best known for his German and Irish comedy 

 parts. After 1860 Mr. Thompson gave serious 

 attention to collecting theatrical curios, dramatic 

 literature, and play-bills, and accumulated a valu- 

 able collection, which after his retirement from 

 the stage, in 1897, he put on exhibition and sale 

 in his house in Brooklyn. 



Thompson, Maurice, author, born in Fair- 

 field, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844; died Feb. 15, 1901. His 

 parents, who were from the South, removed to 

 Kentucky and thence to the hill region of north- 

 ern Georgia. The son was educated by private 

 tutors, arid early became interested in the study 



