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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Centennial History of Cincinnati & Representative
Citizens
by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B.
Vol. I
Publ. by
Biographical Publishing Company.
Geo. Richmond, Prks.; C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
1904
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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ROLLA L. THOMAS, MS., MD.
Rolla L. Thomas; M. S., M. D.,
president of the National Eclectic Medical Association, who
fills the chair of the principles and practice of medicine
in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and is one
of the associate editors of the Eclectic Medical Journal, is
one of the leading exponents of the Eclectic medical school.
He was born Aug. 17, 1857, at Harrison, Hamilton County,
Ohio, and is a son of Dr. Milton and Susan J. Thomas,
the former of whom was a very eminent physical! and medical
instructor.
Dr. Thomas completed the common and high school
courses at Harrison, and in the fall of 1874 entered De Pauw
University, at Greencastle, Indiana, where he was graduated
four years later; and three years later received the degree
of Master of Science. After leaving the University,
Dr. Thomas immediately entered the Eclectic Medical
Institute of Cincinnati, and in June, 1880, received the
degree of M. D. He returned to his native place and
engaged in the practice of his profession until Nov. 14,
1887, when he removed to Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, where he
still resides, occupying beautifully appointed offices at
No. 792 East McMillan street.
On Jan. 27, 1887, Dr. Thomas delivered his first
lecture as adjunct professor of the principles and practice
of medicine, an effort that immediately brought him into
local prominence. In 1894 he was placed at the head of
this important branch of the Institute’s work, and this
chair he still admirably fills. In addition to his
lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute, he fills many
appointments at other institutions and also attends to a
large private practice. Dr. Thomas is
well known to the medical world through his pen. He is
one of the associate editors of that ably conducted paper,
the Eclectic Medical Journal, and his late work, “The
Practice of Medicine,” has brought him approval from both
the medical and the literary worlds. He is a prominent
member of the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society, the Ohio
State Eclectic Medical Association, and the National
Eclectic Medical Association, of which he is at this writing
president, being active and useful in all these
organizations.
Dr. Thomas was married in July, 1880, to
Sallie B. Cook, and has a beautiful home on Walnut
Hills. For many years he has taken an active part in
the Methodist Church and is a leading factor of the
Sunday-school. Dr. Thomas is a man of
genial nature and engaging personality and easily wins
confidence and esteem.
Source: Centennial History of
Cincinnati & Representative Citizens by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B. -
Vol. II - Pt. 2 - Publ., 1904 - Page 504 |
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HON. ALBERT C. THOMPSON.
Hon. Albert C. Thompson, judge of the United States
District Court, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, has
had an honorable and brilliant career in the various fields
of action to which he has been called. His valor on
the field of battle, his ability as lawyer and judge, and
his conscientious labors in the halls of Congress have
brought him prominently before the public eye and gained for
him the esteem of his fellow men to the highest degree.
Judge Thompson was horn in Brookville,
Pennsylvania, Jan. 23. 1842, and is a son of Hon.
J. J. Y. and Agnes (Kennedy) Thompson. He spent
his boyhood days in his native village until he reached the
age of 12 years, when he entered the preparatory department
of Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he
remained two years, giving up his academic pursuits and
returning home because of financial losses sustained by his
father. When 17 years of age he entered upon the study
of the law in the office of Capt. W. W. Wise at
Brookville, and continued for two years, when he
relinquished his studies to take up arms for the cause of
the Union. On Apr. 23, 1861, in his 20th year, he
enlisted and marched with Capt. A. A. McKnight’s
three-months men to join the army under Patterson in
the Valley of Virginia. Before the expiration of the
three months he was promoted to the rank of sergeant in
Company I, 8th Reg., Pennsylvania Vol. Inf. On Aug.
27, 1861, he enlisted for three years as a private in
Company B, 105th Reg., Pennsylvania Vol. Inf., under
Capt. John C. Dowling, and was rapidly and successively
promoted to 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant. On Nov.
26, 1861, he was transferred to Company K of the same
regiment, and on Dec. 1, 1861, though yet under the age of
20, was made captain. The men of the company did not
relish the idea of one so young being placed in command of
them, but he soon won them over and under his leadership
they became possibly the best drilled and disciplined
company in the regiment. He was wounded in the battle
of Fair Oaks, receiving a bullet in the back, just under the
shoulder, as he turned to command his company to advance.
As a result he spent a short time in the hospital, the wound
being a painful but not dangerous one, and a short time in
visiting home. He rejoined his regiment at Harrison’s
Landing, and was with it in every subsequent engagement up
to the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he received a wound
pronounced fatal at the time and from which he still
suffers. It was just at the close of the battle, when
but a few straggling shots were being fired by the enemy,
that a bullet struck him in the right breast, fracturing the
second and third ribs, and lodging in his lung where it has
since been an unwelcome tenant. He was first removed
to a boarding house on D street, Washington, D. C., where he
was joined by his mother, whose careful nursing, combined
with his youthful vitality and excellent physical condition,
cheated death of an expected victim. From there he was
taken by easy stages to Brookville, and there during the
subsequent 10 months he slowly but surely gained strength.
At the end of that time he was sufficiently recovered to
apply for a place in the Invalid Corps, which he entered in
June, 1863, serving a part of the time on the staff of the
provost-marshal for Kentucky, and later in New York,
enforcing the draft. Dec. 10, 1863, Captain
Thompson resigned and resumed preparation for the legal
profession by entering the office of Hon. W. P. and G. A.
Jenks, at Brookville. He was admitted to practice
in the courts of Jefferson County, Dec. 13, 1864, and the
following year removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, where his legal
residence continued until his removal to Cincinnati in 1900.
His rise in the profession was a rapid one and in 1869 he
was elected to the office of judge of the Probate Court.
In 1881 he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas
for the Seventh Judicial District of Ohio, which position he
resigned to take his place in Congress. He served in
the 49th, 50th and 51st sessions of that body and, contrary
to the usual rule of action of the young members, was most
active from the beginning of his term. His first term
was one of the busiest he served, being placed upon the
committee on private land claims, of which be proved a
useful and valuable member. During his second term he
served on the invalid pension committee, and in the 51st
Congress served on two of the most, prominent and important
committees, namely: judiciary and foreign relations.
As a member of the former he was made chairman of a
sub-committee to investigate the United States courts in
various parts of the country. This work was done most
thoroughly and resulted in raising the standard of many of
the courts, articles of impeachment being preferred against
one of the judges in Louisiana. It was during that
Congress that the “McKinley Bill” was formed, and in the
construction of that important measure Judge
Thompson took no inconsiderable part, being frequently
called into the councils of his party. He wrote the
24th section of the bill, constitute ing the great smelting
works of the country bonded warehouses for the storing of
imported ores admitted free of duty, which, when refined,
were exported in an unmanufactured state by the refiner. He
was not only active in affairs of great moment to his
country, but as well served his constituents. He was
instrumental in securing the erection of a $75,000 public
building in Portsmouth, and the Bonanza Dike built in the
Ohio River at a cost of $75,000, also three ice piers just
below at a cost of $7,500 each. He secured free mail
delivery for the city of Portsmouth, and rendered many
another important service to his district. His
political career was marked by many colossal struggles.
The memorable fight at Gallipolis, when he had the
nomination in his grasp and handed it over to the late
General Enochs, was the most protracted and
hardest fought political struggle ever witnessed in a
convention in this State, and fittingly closed a career in
Congress that was marked all along the way by
straightforward and honest fighting. Since retiring
from Congress, Judge Thompson has never
actively entered into politics, although in 1896 he served
as a delegate to the National Republican Convention held at
St. Louis, being prompted in accepting the honor by a desire
to serve the interests of a warm personal friend, Major
McKinley, who in that year was nominated for the
presidency. He was appointed in 1892 by Governor
McKinley as a trustee of Athens Assembly and the
appointment confirmed by the Senate but he declined the
honor. In June, 1893, he consented to serve on the
Ohio Tax Commission as it would in no way interfere with the
practice of his profession, his clientage having grown to
such proportions as to require his almost undivided
attention. He was made chairman of the commission by
his confreres, Theodore Cook, W. N. Conden and E. A.
Angell, and the work of the commission was of a most
valuable character, the report receiving highest praise from
contemporaneous journals of political science.
In 1900 Judge Thompson was called from
his old associations at Portsmouth, which he had grown to
love, to Cincinnati where he accepted the judgeship of the
United States District Court. He has found his new
associations as pleasant as the old, and during his short
residence here has become firmly established in the
confidence and good will of the members of the bar.
Source: Centennial History of Cincinnati & Representative
Citizens by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B. -
Vol. II - Pt. 2 - Publ., 1904 - Page 107 |
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CHARLES MANFRED THOMPSON.
Charles Manfred Thompson was born Dec. 7,
1857, in Butler County, Ohio, on the line between that
county and Warren. He is the son of James Milton
Thompson and Charlotte Voorhis, his wife. When he
was about a year old, his parents moved their residence a
few hundred feet, which brought the homestead into Warren
County, in which county they have resided since that date.
He was educated in the common schools of Warren County until
he had attained the age of 16 years, at which time he
entered the National Normal University at Lebanon where he
graduated in 1877, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Immediately thereafter, he entered the law school of the
Universty of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After
studying there for a year, he entered the senior class of
the law school of the Cincinnati College, where he graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the class of 1879.
He immediately entered upon the practice of the law at
Lebanon in Warren County, and shortly afterwards entered
into partnership with W. F. Eltzroth, under the firm
name of Eltzroth & Thompson. This partnership
continued until 1886, when he formed a partnership with
Frank M. Gorman of Cincinnati, under the firm name of
Gorman & Thompson. He retained his residence in
Lebanon until 1892, at which time he moved to Lockland in
Hamilton County, where he has resided since that date. The
partnership association with Mr. Gorman was dissolved
in 1902.
Mr. Thompson was married July 2, 1879, to
Emma O. Harper, by whom he has one daughter. After
the death of his first wife he was married on Nov. 26, 1903,
to Wilhelmina Bauer of Cincinnati. He is a
member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati and The Cincinnati
Bar Association.
Source: Centennial History of Cincinnati & Representative
Citizens by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B. -
Vol. II - Pt. 2 - Publ., 1904 - Page 812 |
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JOHN ALBERT THOMPSON, M. D.
John Albert Thompson, M. D., who is known far
beyond tbe city of Cincinnati as a specialist in all nose,
throat and ear troubles, was born at Mount Carmel, Indiana,
Jan. 7, 1859. The family is of English and Scotch
origin, a combination that has developed some of the most
distinguished men of the century.
Dr. Thompson is a son of John and Mary
(Jenkins) Thompson, the former of whom was born in 1822
at Mount Carmel, Indiana, where he subsequently became a
farmer and merchant. On the maternal side, the family
was of Massachusetts stock, where the grandparents were
born, but removed to Ohio where Dr. Thompson’s mother
was born in 1827.
Dr. Thompson was reared in a comfortable home
and was afforded excellent educational advantages, being
sent to Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana, after
completing the common school course. There he was most
creditably graduated in 1880, receiving the degree of B. S.
After a course of reading under Dr. Mackenzie he was
graduated in 1884 from the Miami Medical College and soon
after entered upon the general practice of medicine and
surgery. This he continued with unusual success for
eight years, during which time he was clinical instructor in
the diseases of the nose, ear and throat at his alma mater
and through close study and thorough investigation became so
interested in this complicated branch of practice that he
decided to make it a specialty. Since 1892 he has
given his entire attention to these important organs and the
medical literature of the day has been enriched by many
valuable scientific articles from his pen.
Dr. Thompson is connected with all the leading
medical societies, is a subscriber to all the reliable
medical publications, and in every way is continually adding
to his knowledge. His practice extends over a wide
territory and he is justly regarded as an authority on all
diseases pertaining to the throat, ear and nose. Few
are beyond his skill and his scores of grateful testimonials
tell of his success when others less patient and skilled
have failed.
Dr. Thompson was married Apr. 21, 1886, to
Lillie Morris, daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth
(Shepard) Morris. In politics Dr. Thompson
is a Prohibitionist. His well appointed offices are
situated at No. 628 Elm street, Cincinnati.
Source: Centennial History of Cincinnati & Representative
Citizens by Charles Theodore Greve, A. B., LL. B. -
Vol. II - Pt. 1 - Publ., 1904 - Page 353 |
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