Families of Samuel Albert Thompson
SAMUEL ALBERT THOMPSON, son of MARGARET E. FRYAR and JOHN LEWIS THOMPSON, was born January 2, 1855 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana,1958, 456 and died June 16, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia.1291
He married (1) SARAH ELIZABETH MEARS on June 21, 1883 in Clermont County, Ohio.2373 She was born in February, 1856 in Cincinnatti, Ohio, and died September 20, 1909 in Hazel, Hamlin, South Dakota.867 She is buried in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana.89, 867, 1125
He married (2) ELIZABETH ETHEL STEWART on February 5, 1913 in Washington, District of Columbia.1800
Children of SARAH ELIZABETH MEARS and SAMUEL ALBERT THOMPSON:
- MARGARET MEARS THOMPSON, b. May 1, 1886, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota;1958, 67 m. DR. ROBERT SAMUEL HART on September 16, 1908 in Wayne County, Indiana1675; d. February 1, 1973, Manatee County, Florida.456
- KATHARYNE LUELLA THOMPSON, b. June 28, 1889, Minnesota; d. December 20, 1970, Manatee, Manatee, Florida.
Education
- Samuel Albert Thompson attended Earlham College, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana between 1874 and 1875.
Work History
Samuel A. Thompson
Obituaries
Richmond Evening Item, September 22, 1909867
BODY OF MRS. THOMPSON
WILL ARRIVE HERE THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR FUNERAL SERVICES
The body of Mrs. S. A. Thompson, who died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Robert S. Hart, in Hazel South Dakota, Monday, will arrive here Thursday afternoon at 3.44 o'clock from Chicago for burial. Funeral services will be held at the home, 312 North Eleventh street Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. T. J. Graham, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of which the deceased was a member.
Evening Star, June 17, 19394210
Samuel A. Thompson Dies; Ex-Official of Harbors Congress
District Resident, 84, Was Amateur Musician And Composer
Samuel A. Thompson, 84, retired secretary-treasurer of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, amateur musician and composer, died today yesterday at his home, 5236 Illinois avenue, N.W., after an illness of about two months.
Mr. Thompson, who had been a resident of this city since 1911, had been secretary-treasurer of the Congress for more than 21 years when he retired in 1933. He was affectionately known as "Deep-Water Thompson," because of continually advocating the deepening and improvement of waterways.
For many years Mr. Thompson had been interested in music as a hobby. He had composed marches, waltzes, lyrical songs and ballads over a period of many years and recently he wrote a lullaby for his great-granddaughter, who lives with his daughter, Mrs. Robert S. Hart, in Groton, S. Dak.
Only recently Mr. Thompson also put on paper a piano solo, which he said had been "lingering" in his head since he was 16 and which he had played, by ear, on the piano many times for members of his family. Once he got an idea for a song while swinging on a street car strap. Not long ago his daughters, Mrs. Hart, and Miss Katherine L. Thompson, who is now engaged in missionary work in China for the Southern Presbyterian Church, helped him write a sacred song which has been sung in several Washington churches.
Born in Richmond, Ind., Mr. Thompson was educated in high school and at Earlham College there and at the University of Cincinnati.
Prior to going with the Rivers and Harbors Congress, for which he worked for about three years before becoming its secretary-treasurer, Mr. Thompson was engaged most of the time in newspaper work and also wrote a number of magazine articles. From 1886 to 1890 he was proprietor of the Duluth Daily News.
In 1896, with one white companion in an unexplored region of the Imataca Mountains, Venezuela, he discovered one of the highest waterfalls in the world.
Mr. Thompson was an associate member of the National Press Club and the Society of Military Engineers.
He was twice married. His first marriage was to Elizabeth G. Mears and his second wife, who survives, was Elizabeth E. Stewart. Besides his widow and the two daughters, both children by the first marriage, he is survived by six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral arrangements were to be announced later. The body is resting at Lee's funeral home, Fourth street and Massachusetts avenue N.W.
Palladium-Item and Sun-Telegram, June 18, 19391291
WATERWAYS LEADER DIES; WAS BORN HERE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17.—(AP)—Samuel A. Thompson, 84 years old, retired secretary-treasurer of the National Rivers and Harbors congress and known as "Deep Water Thompson" to waterways advocates, died yesterday at his home.
Thompson was proprietor of The Duluth (Minn.) Daily News from 1886 to 1890. He came to Washington in 1911 and was secretary-treasurer of the Rivers and Harbors congress for 21 years.
He was born in Richmond, Ind., and educated at Earlham college and the University of Cincinnati. Later he engaged in newspaper work and wrote magazine articles. He also was an amateur composer.
He was a member of the National Press club and the Society of Military Engineers. Surviving are his widow, Elizabeth Stewart, and two daughters.
While secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Duluth, Mr. Thompson drafted a bill designed to compel the removal of tolls discriminating against American commerce through the Weiland canal. The bill was presented to congress in 1892, receiving the unanimous recommendation of the Committees On Foreign Affairs in both the house and the senate, and passed both houses without a dissenting vote.
He spent the greater part of 1896 in Venezuela, South America, as a member of a party engaged in exploring a land grant of the Orinoco company. With one American companion, a Negro cook, a Hindoo coolie, and an escaped convict from the French penal settlement at Cayenne, he penetrated a region never before visited by white men and in the heart of the Sierra Imataca discovered one of the highest waterfalls in the world, which was named Falls of Manon.
Upon his return to this country he spent considerable time on lecture tours and in literary work. In 1907 he had charge of the newspaper work in connection with the simultaneous evangelistic campaigns under the direction of Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman.
Mr. Thompson was a member of the first class graduating from the Richmond High school, in 1871.
Cemetery Pictures
Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| June 16, 1860306 | Richmond, Wayne, Indiana |
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| June 6, 1900112 | Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana |
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| April 27, 1910815 | Richmond, Wayne, Indiana |
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| January 4, 19201052 | Washington, District of Columbia |
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| April 3, 1930678 | Washington, District of Columbia |
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