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  Henry Thompson, his famed family and bridge
Henry was born in the Mauld's Meaburn, England, in 1852.
Many people assume that Henry Thompson built the bridge, but in fact he was a Skagit county commissioner at the time and he voted with the board on May 1, 1916, to approve the lowest bid of $21, 946.50 by the J.R. Wood Company of Seattle, according to researcher Theresa Trebon.
William Henry Thompson, the oldest of the children, was also one of the longest lived, dying at age 92 in 1967, the same year as brother Richard's death.
www.stumpranchonline.com /skagitjournal/Upriver/Uto-Conc/Pioneer/ThompsonHenryFam.html   (2903 words)

  
 100 illuminated manuscripts - Henry Yates Thompson's illuminated manuscripts at the British Library
Thompson’s collection was established in scope and stature with his purchase in 1897 of approximately 210 manuscripts from the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), whose shrewdness, tenacity, and fortune had allowed him to amass an extraordinary library.
It was the Appendix that Thompson purchased in its entirety for £30,000, with the sole exception of the Lindau Gospels, with its splendid early treasure binding, which was sold separately to J. Pierpont Morgan (New York, Morgan Library, MS M.1).
Thompson’s distinction as a collector was affirmed in 1902, when he delivered the Sandars lecture to the University of Cambridge.
www.bl.uk /catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourYT100.asp   (965 words)

  
 Thompson, Henry 'Hank' - Negro League Baseball Player
Born: 1925 in Oklahoma City, OK Died: 1969 in Fresno, CA Henry Thompson was the hard-hitting thumper for the Kansas City Monarchs, playing both infield and outfield.
Thompson was a machine gunner with the 1695th Combat Engineers at the historic Battle of the Bulge.
Sergeant Thompson was discharged on June 20, 1946, and returned to the Monarchs, who were in the midst of capturing the league title.
www.nlbpa.com /thompson__henry.html   (606 words)

  
 Death of Dr. Henry Thompson, Nursing Ethicist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dr. Henry Orrin Thompson, a scholar, ethicist, and pastoral counselor who led in the development of the ethics program of the School of Nursing --where he also collaborated with his wife, Professor Joyce Thompson--died on April 24 at the age of 65.
Dr. Thompson, a professor of Bible and ministry at the Unification Theological Seminary, was appointed to the adjunct faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.
Dr. Thompson was a founding and active member of the School of Nursing Ethics Committee and also served on the Ethics Committee of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
www.upenn.edu /almanac/v43/n32/thompson.html   (288 words)

  
 The Payson Roundup: The story of John Henry Thompson
Thompson had been born on Confederate soil, while Wentworth was born in the Union state of California.
Thompson was elected sheriff of Gila County at the general election held Nov. 4, 1890.
Thompson told the large group that he would allow no lynching, and that they would have to pass by him first.
www.paysonroundup.com /section/rimreview/story/14416   (1410 words)

  
 Life & Legend - Key Influences on Thompson's Early Life
Thompson was named after his maternal grandfather - James Harrison Wilson, a US Civil War general whose postwar career took him to countries around the world.
Thompson was not yet born but as a child, he enjoyed looking at the faded pictures and listening to stories told of the royal garden party for King Rama VI of Siam.
HENRY B. The Thompson family at their Delaware home in 1927, when Jim Thompson was at Princeton.
www.jimthompsonhouse.com /life/keyinf.asp   (406 words)

  
 Thompson, Henry Burling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thompson was chairman of the trustees' committee on grounds and buildings from 1909 to 1928.
A friend of Woodrow Wilson since their college days, Thompson supported Wilson's quad plan and graduate college proposals, but when these were defeated and Wilson left to enter politics, he gave the same loyal support to John Grier Hibben.
Thompson is commemorated by a memorial court, created in 1956 with a gift from his family, at the center of the walk that passes through the arches of East Pyne Building, on the site of East College, where he roomed as an undergraduate.
etcweb.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/thompson_henry.html   (265 words)

  
 An introduction to Henry Yates Thompson's illuminated manuscripts at the British Library
Born to affluence in 1838, Henry Yates Thompson is principally remembered as the greatest manuscript collector of his generation.
After Mrs Yates Thompson’s bequest of the remaining forty-six manuscripts to the British Museum in 1941, the other six manuscripts, which had been assigned manuscript numbers in the Additional sequence as they were acquired, were subsequently given the Yates Thompson numbers by which they are now known.
Henry Yates Thompson, An Englishman in the American Civil War: the Diaries of Henry Yates Thompson 1863, ed.
www.bl.uk /catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourYTIntro.asp   (472 words)

  
 Thompson
Thompson set up his machine gun in the path of the onslaught and swept the enemy with withering fire, pinning them down momentarily thus permitting the remainder of his platoon to withdraw to a more tenable position.
William Henry Thompson was a slight kid with hollow eyes dominating his thin, fl face.
William Henry Thompson was the first enlisted man in the Korean War to receive this award, and the first African American recipient since the Spanish American War in 1898.
www.aaftankmuseum.com /WMHTHOMPSON.htm   (432 words)

  
 I396: Henry Clay THOMPSON (27 Dec 1847 - 27 Mar 1936)
Col. Thompson was widely known throughout the northwest as a distinguished and patriotic citizen, whose services for his country were second to none in all the nation.
Born on the border line which separated the north from the south, the boy Thompson followed his father into the Federal cavalry and came out of the Civil war to take up the responsibilities of a man after his father was killed while serving with the Federal cavalry.
In 1898 when war was declared against Spain Col. Thompson volunteered his services and went with General Shafter to Cuba as wagon master in the 22nd Infantry.
cotati.sjsu.edu /wendt/d0003/I396.html   (590 words)

  
 Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet (1820–1904), British surgeon and polymath, was born at Framlingham, Suffolk, on August 6, 1820.
It added greatly to the instrumental resources of Greenwich, especially for photographic work, and its importance may be gauged from the fact that both in aperture and focal length it is double the size of any instrument possessed by the observatory at the time it was put in place.
Sir Henry Thompson, was knighted in 1867 and received a baronetcy in 1899, in connection to this telescope gifts to the National Observatory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Thompson   (752 words)

  
 Stanton, Henry T.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry T. Stanton was born in Alexandria, Virginia on June 30, 1834, the son of Judge Richard Henry Stanton.
Stanton served in the Confederate Army as a captain of a company in the 5th Kentucky regiment and from 1862-64 was assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. John S. Williams.
Stanton's father, Richard Henry Stanton (1812-1891), was born in Virginia but moved to Kentucky and was a noted jurist and author of Kentucky legal treatises and editor of Kentucky's revised statutes.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/stanton.html   (613 words)

  
 Richard Henry Thompson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thompson, father of the Gove attorney, was born in Ontario, Canada, and as a young man went across the plains and prospected with a considerable degree of success in California.
Richard Henry Thompson attended the rural schools of Atchison County, graduated from the Horton High School in 1900, and in 1905 received his LL.
Thompson is a republican, a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, belongs to the county bar association, to Gove Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, and has long been prominently identified with Masonry.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/genweb/archives/1919ks/t/thompsrh.html   (577 words)

  
 Thompson-McCoy Chickasaw & Choctaw Descendants
Documented among this group were William Thompson quarter blood son of Henry and Margaret McCoy-Thompson, and David McCoy the son of Chickasaw Supreme Judge James McCoy, who was also the brother of Margaret McCoy-Thompson.
Benjamin Franklin Thompson a cousin of Henry Butt Thompson, married Annie Martin the daughter of Cherokee Chief Justice John Martin.
Thompson Chickasaw-Choctaw Genealogy: Descendants of Henry and Margaret McCoy-Thompson
members.aol.com /txcherind/thompson-mccoy_chickasaw-choctaw   (1112 words)

  
 Montana Outlaw Henry Thompson
Thompson took offense to the man's badgering and warned Dunman to stop.
Thompson tried to walk away from the disturbance, but Dunman had already had a few drinks.
Thompson was immediately arrested and held in the Miles City Jail.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/97962   (474 words)

  
 Henry Thompson
Henry Thompson joined the New York Giants on July 5, 1949 and made his National League debut three days later against the Brooklyn Dodgers, making him the first fl player to play in both leagues.
Thompson had previously played in the American League in 1947 for the St. Louis Browns to become the major leagues' third fl player behind Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby, but Thompson spent only a little more than a month with St. Louis before being released.
Thompson was a versatile performer who played the infield and outfield fairly well.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/baseball/115399   (510 words)

  
 Henry Thompson 1863
Henry Thompson was born 14 November 1863, the son of Robert Thompson and Sarah Barbar.
Henry is also referred to as Harry, the names appear interchangeable.
Henry Thompson of South Bank, Waterloo, near Liverpool, provision merchant who died 11 February 1892.
members.cox.net /ghgraham/henrythompson1863.html   (292 words)

  
 Interview with Terry Thompson, Jack Henry & Associates: TWST
Thompson: Jack Henry & Associates is a provider of information technology products and services to community financial institutions.
Thompson: Our growth will come from additional new core product sales to brand new customers that have not used our core systems previously.
Thompson: One of the objectives that we’ve talked about for an extended period of time is maintaining an EPS growth target of 25% per year.
www.twst.com /notes/articles/maa208.html   (665 words)

  
 In Memoriam - Dr. Henry Thompson - Unification News 5/97
Thompson seasoned his lectures with archaeological facts he himself had unearthed or heard firsthand from other archaeologists, and he shared liberally and articulately with us from a seemingly inexhaustible storehouse of knowledge.
On the rare occasion when Dr. Thompson consented to preach a sermon in our morning chapel service, we in the congregation were transfixed with the hot, well-targeted words of a Jeremiah or an Isaiah, both of whom themselves might well have appreciated Dr. Thompson's eloquence, fire and force.
Thompson was a prophet to Unificationists in that he took seriously his mission to help us grow as individuals and as a movement.
www.tparents.org /UNews/unws9705/memorium.htm   (895 words)

  
 National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
Henry Thompson was a leading trainer of the early 20th century.
Known as "Derby Dick", Henry Thompson was the first trainer to saddle four Kentucky Derby winners: Behave Yourself (1921), Bubbling Over (1926), Burgoo King (1932), and Broker's Tip (1933).
Henry J. Thompson was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1969.
www.racingmuseum.org /hall/trainer.asp?ID=292   (184 words)

  
 George Henry Thompson [T412] Genealogy
Thomas Henry Crawford Thompson (1832 - 2 Jan 1892); m.
A pension application indicates George Thompson married Mary Susan Knott in 1817 and died in 1824, which means he would not be the father of the above.
Thompson entries (02101/20101/0/0//8) could be consistent with Wm.
www.hometown.aol.com /chiefstorm/gen/t512g784.htm   (501 words)

  
 Thompson, Edward Henry - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Edward Henry Thompson migrated to Australia in 1870 and worked as a reader in the Anglican dioceses of Melbourne and Ballarat.
Thompson soon developed an expertise in the pests and funguses attacking the local orchards and in 1891 was appointed entomologist and scientific adviser to the Tasmanian Council/Department of Agriculture.
Edward Thompson was a member of the American Association of Economic Entomology and author of two handbooks.
www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P001942b.htm   (310 words)

  
 Data Binding Using W3C XML Schema Annotations
In an accompanying paper,[Thompson (2001)], Henry Thompson introduces the notion of "XML normal forms".
Inspired, in part, by relational normal forms, [Codd (1970)], these conventions for XML representation of structured data can be a basis for meaningful defaults in mapping XML schemas to object-oriented classes, relational tables or other data structures.
Henry S. Thompson is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and Managing Director of Markup Technology Ltd.
www.idealliance.org /papers/xml2001/papers/html/06-03-04.html   (2078 words)

  
 Thompson Family Genealogy (KY & IL)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Died 14 Jul 1892 in Logan County, KY. Buried Jul 1892 in Thompson Cemetery.
Born 10 Jul 1853 in Logan County, KY. Died 28 Feb 1879 in Logan County, KY. Buried Mar 1879 in Thompson Cemetery.
Born Approx 1869 in Logan County, KY. Remarks her mother died in childbirth; Laura was named for her and was living with her grandparents, William and Katharine Thompson, in 1870.
www.people.ku.edu /~place/thompson.html   (1521 words)

  
 henry kaiser : bio
Widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz and experimental music, California-based musician Henry Kaiser is one of the most extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 140 different albums.
Henry and David are planning several new series of collaborative recordings that may someday take the duo "on the road" to Korea.
Richard Thompson and Henry are presently considering preparation of a similar type of collaborative project for the Islands of Fiji.
www.henrykaiser.net /biography.html   (674 words)

  
 Henry Thomas Sampson 1934 - Inventor of the Cellular Phone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Technologies that developed from different fields, such as personal communications, computation, and space exploration often worked together to serve the constantly evolving human needs of the information age.
Henry T. Sampson worked as a research Chemical Engineer at the US Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California.
Henry T. Sampson then moved on to the Aerospace Corp, El Segundo, California.
www.newcommunity.org /clarion/apr99/articles/p8-2.html   (430 words)

  
 Thomas Henry Crawford Thompson [T512] Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There is some uncertainty regarding T. Crawford Thompson's mother; see Discussion on the father's web page.
Census entries repeatedly indicate Crawford Thompson's birth year as 1832-33, but his death record indicates 1825 instead.
Thompson, Thomas H., 27, M, W, farmer, $300 real estate, $150 pp, b.
members.aol.com /chiefstorm/gen/t512c833.htm   (594 words)

  
 Henry S. Salt - Book Details
A Group of Unpublished Letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill.
Joynes, C. Kegan Paul, Henry George, Edward Carpenter and Sir George Greenwood.
Arranged in such a manner as to make it a record of the men no less than of the movement, of freedom's singers as well as of freedom's songs.
www.henrysalt.co.uk /bookdetails.htm   (2055 words)

  
 Hugh Thompson ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
James Henry Daugherty, This man was Hugh, 1941
In Marlene Dumas's series of drawings 'Jesus Suffering' the traditional image of Christ's face is subverted by her use of contemporary source material, magazine images and photographs of bearded friends.
Adolescent fantasy Goth girls are culled from magazines, as psychological terrors stalk the artificial landscape where knitted cobwebs in eerie corners subvert their cosy-craft roots.
www.wwar.com /masters/t/thompson-hugh.html   (1677 words)

  
 Henry Thompson - Publications
Brigitte Gottschall, Pam Wolfe, Albert D. Haegele, Zongjian Zhu, Cecile S. Rose, Tricia Sells, and Henry J. Thompson (2004) Increased Urinary 8-Isoprostaglandin F2 Is Associated With Lower Plasma Selenium Levels and Lower Vegetable and Fruit Intake in an Asbestos-Exposed Cohort at Risk for Lung Cancer.
Weiqin Jiang, Zongjian Zhu, John N. McGinley, and Henry J. Thompson (2004) Adrenalectomy Does Not Block the Inhibition of Mammary Carcinogenesis
Henry J. Thompson, Zongjian Zhu, and Weiqin Jiang.
hla.colostate.edu /faculty/thompson/publications.htm   (2612 words)

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