APPENDIX I. 



Obituary of Professor Thompson. 



[The following carefully prepared notice, from the pen of a friend of the deceas- 

 ed, was originally communicated to the "Franklin County Journal," pub- 

 lished at St Albans, Vermont. 



We discharge a melancholy duty in announcing to our readers 

 the death of this eminent Vermonter. His widely known and 

 universally esteemed reputation justifies us in preparing a detailed 

 m emoir of his life and literary labors. 



Professor Zadock Thompson, died at Burlington on the 19th of 

 January, 1856, of ossification of the heart. He was born in 

 Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vermont, in the year 1796 and, at 

 the time of his death, must have been in the sixtieth year of his 

 age. His early life was a continual struggle with poverty and 

 his education was acquired while successfully combatting the evils 

 of pecuniary embarrassment. At the advanced age of 27 years he 

 was graduated from the University of Yermont,having for his class- 

 mates in 1823 and now living, the Hon. Frederick H. Allen, a.n 

 eminent lawyer in Boston, and Warren Hoxie, of Westford, Yt. 



From his childhood he had a passion for writing and publish- 

 ing books. His first publications were almanacs, which he sold 

 by traveling about the State on foot to raise means to fit himself 

 for college ; and " Thompson's Almanack " became as famous 

 in Vermont as Robert B. Thomas' in Massachusetts. Hia 

 first bound volume was an Arithmetic, which he published in 

 1826. This had a general sale through the State, and was su- 

 perseded in part by others for no other reason than a failure of his. 

 publisher to supply the demand during the author's residence in 

 Canada as Principal of an Academy, where he published a Geog- 



