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the same conference, Jan. 7. 18G1, He taught school in Marion and Noblesville, Ind., 1860-61; was professor of mathematics, at Western college, Iowa, 1861, and at Otterbein university, Ohio, 1862-67. He was married, Aug. 7, 1862, to Harriet E., daughter of George M. and Juliana (Jones) Copeland of Galena, Ohio; was super- intendent of public schools. Troy, Ohio, 1867-71; professor of mathematics, Westfield college. 111., 1871-72, and president of Otterbein university, 1873-86. He was an unsuccessful Prohibition candidate for representative in the -Wth congress in 187-4; for lieutenant-governor of Ohio, 1875, and for governor, 1877; cliairman of the Prohibi- tion national convention, 1876, and was nominated for Vice-President of the United States on the ticket with Neal Dow for President, 1880. He was a delegate tc the Methodist ecumenical con- ference, London, 1881; commissioner of the de- partment of science and education, Ohio Cen- tennial exposition, 1889; associate editor of Sun- day-school literature, United Brethren church, 1893, and editor-in-cliief from 1897-1901. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Wash- ington and Jefferson college, 1873, and that of LL.D. from Westfield college. 111.. 1886. He is the author of: Schools of the Prophets (1871); Poiver of the Invisible (1882); Our Bishops (1889); Biography of Jonathan Weaver (1902); and of contributions to the Quarterly Review arid to the Telescope; and was editor-in-chief of the The United Brethren Revieiv. Dayton, Ohio.

THOnPSON, Hugh fliller, second bishop of Mississippi, and 129th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born in county Londonderry, Ireland. June 5, 1830; son of John and Annie (Miller) Thompson, and of Scotch-Irish descent. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1836, suffering shipwreck in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; lived in Caldwell, N.J.. 1836-44, and in the latter year removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he prepared for the priesthood. He was graduated from Nashotah Theological sem- inary. Wis., 1852: was admitted to the diaconate by Bishop Kemper, June 6, 1852; had charge of Grace church, Madison, Wis., 1852-53; of the Church of the Nativity, Maysville, Ky., 1853-54; and was a missionary in Portage, Baraboo and Kilbourn city. Wis., until his advancement to the priesthood in St. John's churcli. Portage, Aug. 31, 1856. He was rector of St. Matthew's, Kenosha, Wis., 1858; of Grace church. Galena, 111., 1859, and professor of history in the Nashotah Theological seminary, 1860-70. during which time he held associate pastorates at Kenosha, where he established Kemper Hall, and at St. Paul's, Mil- waukee, and edited the American Churchman of Chicago. He was rector of St. James's church, Chicago, 1871; of Christ church, New York city>

1871-75; edited the Church Journal, at New Or- leans, 1876-83, where he was consecrated co-adju- tor bishop of Mississippi, Feb. 24, 1883, in Trinity church by Bishops Green, Wilmer, Harris and Gallagher, and upon the death of Bishop Green of Mississippi, Feb. 13, 1887, became diocesan. Bishop Thompson was present at the third Pan- Anglican Conference, London, 1888, and delivered the funeral sermon of Bishop Harris of Michigan at Westminster Abbey, 1897. He was married, first, in March, 1853, to Caroline, daughter of Simeon and Mary Berry of Sandy Hill, N.Y., and of their children, the Rev. Frank Thompson was chaplain in the U.S. navy, and Annie married James Pearce of Yonkers, N.Y. He married secondly, Oct. 25, 1859, Anna Weatherburne, daughter of Henry Butler and Mary (HatcJi) Hinsdale of Kenosha, Wis., and they had one son, Hugh Greame Thompson of Milbrook, Miss., and one daughter, Mary Weatherburne, who married the Rev. William Torry Howe. Bishop Thompson received the honorary degree of A.M. from Racine college, Wisconsin, 1858; that of D.D. from Hobart college, 1866, and from the University of • the South, 1883, and that of LL.D. from the Uni- versity of Alabama, 1885. He was a member of the Scotch-Irish Society of America, and is the author of: Unity and its Restoration (1860); Sin and its Penalty (1862); First Principles (1868); Absolution (1872); Is Romanism the Best Religion for the Republic? and The Kingdom of God (1873); of the lectures: The World and the Logos (1885); The World and the Kingdom (1888); The World and the Man (1890); The World and the Wrestlers (1895), and of the essays: Copy (1872); More Copy (1897). He died in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 18, 1902. THOMPSON, Hugh Smith, governor of South Carolina, was born in Charleston, S.C. Jan. 24, 1836; eldest son of Henry Tazewell and Agnes (Smith) Thompson; grandson of Chancel- lor Waddy Thomp- son and nephew of Gen. Waddy Thomp- son. He was gradu- ated at the South Car- olina Military acad- emy in 1856, and in

1858 was appointed lieutenant and assist- ant professor in the academy. On April 6, 1858, he married Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of Col. Thomas Boston Clark- son of South Carolina, and greats-granddaughter of Thomas Boston, the noted Scottish divine. In

1859 he was made professor in the Columbia

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