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turned to the United States in 1865, though not in improved health, and establishing himself in New- York city, served as literary editor of the Even- ing Post from 1866 to 1873, when he resigned to spend the winter in Colorado. He is the author of Patriotism, a poem delivered before the con- vention of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Washington, D.C., Jan. 3, 1856; of the ode read at the inauguration of the equestrian statue of General Washington at Riclimond, Va., Feb. 22, 1858, and of Poesy, an essay in rhyme, delivered at Columbian college, Washington, June 28, 1859; The Burial of Latane; The Death of Stuart, and The Battle Rainbow. He died in New York city, April 30, 1873.

THOMPSON, Joseph Parrish, Oriental scholar, was born in Philadelphia, Aug. 7, 1819. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1838, A.M., 1841; studied theology at Andover and at Yale, 1839-40, in which latter year he was ordained to the Con- gregational ministry. He was pastor of Chapel Street church. New Haven, 1840-45, and of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, 1845-72, where he assisted in founding The New Englander and The Independent. He suggested the plan of the Congregational convention at Albany in 1852: spent the years 1852-53 in European and Orien- tal travel; lectured on Egyptology in Andover Theological seminar}^ 1873; was engaged in study in Berlin, Germany, 1873-79; and in 1875, for his public presentation in England of Germany's atti- tude toward •' Ultramontanism," received the •official thanks of Germany from Prince Bismarck, He was a manager of the American Congrega- tional union and the Home Missionary society, and a member of various literary and scientific organizations at home and abroad. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1856 and that of LL.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1868. He is the author of: Memoir of Timothy Dwight (1844); Lectures to Young Men (1846); Hints to Employers (1847); Memoir of David Hale and Foster on Missions (1850); Stray Meditations (1852), revised as The Believer's Refuge (1857); The Invaluable Pos- session, a.n(\. Egypt Past and Present (1856): The Early Witnesses (1857); Memoir of Rev. David T. Stoddard (1858); The Christian Graces and The College as a Religious Institution (1859); Love and Penalty (1860); Bryant Gray and Christian- ity and Emancipation ( 1863); The Holy Comforter (1866); Man in Genesis and Geology (1869); Theology of Christ (1870); Home Worship (1871); Church and State in the United States (1874); Jesus of Nazareth: His Life, for the Young (1875); The United States as a Nation, lectnvea (1817) , and The Workman: his False Friends and his True Friends (1879). He died in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 21, 1879.

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THOMPSON, Joseph Peter, A.M.E.Z. bishop, was born a slave in Winchester, Va., Dec. 20, 1818. He escaped in 1834 to Williamsport, Pa,, where he was apprenticed to a blacksmith; was licensed to preach, 1838, and was married in 1841. He joined the New York conference of the A.M.E.Z. church, 1843; was ordained deacon, 1845, and elder, 1847, his pastorates including churches in the states of New York and New Jersey, and at Halifax, N.S. Meanwhile he studied medicine and w^as graduated from the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, Pa., M.B.. 1858, entering into practice. He was consecrated bishop, July 4, 1876, at Louisville, Ky.; founded various Southern conferences, being the first to establish a conference in the Bahama Islands, 1878, and was a delegate to the Ecumenical con- ference in London, England, 1882. He assisted in the organization of Livingston college, Salisbury, N.C., and officiated at the Genesee conference. Auburn, N.Y., in September, 1893. He was ac- tively associated with several religious societies. He died in Newburgh, N.Y., Dec. 21, 1894.

THOMPSON, Launt, sculptor, was born in Abbeyleix, Queen's county, Ireland, Feb. 8, 1833. His father died while he was very young, and in 1847 he immigrated with his mother to America, settling in Albany, N.Y., where he was employed by a professor of anatomy: subsequently studied in a medical college, and devoted his spare time to drawing. He was influenced by Erastus D. Palmer to give up the study of medicine, and was for nine years a student in Palmer's school of sculpture at Albany, producing at this time his head of " Little Nell." He removed to New York city in 1858, where his w-ork in medallion portraits having been immediately recognized, he was made an associate of the National Academy of Design, 1859, and on the merits of " The Trapper " was elected an academician, 1863. The years 1868-69 and 1875-81 he spent in Italy, principally at Rome. In 1887 he finished his equestrian statue of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, located at Providence, R.I., and tiiereafter did no actual work, owing to a complete break-down in health. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale, 1874, in which year he was vice-president of the National Academy of Design, having pre- viously served as a member of its council and of the committee on erection of the new building of the academy, and was a member of the Century association. His works include: portrait busts of William C. Bryant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art; James Gordon Bennett, Sr.; Robert B. Minturn; Charles H. Marshall; Edwin Booth, as " Hamlet"; Stephen H. Tyng (1870); Charles L. Elliott, and Samuel F. B. Morse (1871); statues of Napoleon I., at Milford. Pa.; Gen. Joim Sedg- wick, at the U.S. Military academy (1869); Gen.