THOMPSON 364 THOMPSON-SETON dailies. He is the author of a biography of Eugene Field (1902), and has written some plays, among which are "M'liss" (1878) and "Sharps and Flats" 1900). THOMPSON, VANCE, an American author; born in Cincinnati, O., April 17, 1863; was graduated at Princeton Uni- Tersity in 1883 ; studied at the University of Jena, Germany, and was a dramatic
- titic in New York City in 1890-1897. He
wrote "Berwyn Kennedy"; "The City of Torches"; "A Flash of Honor"; "Writ- ers of Young France"; "Killing the Man- darin"; "The Carnival of Destiny"; "The Night Watchman" (1914); "Ego Book"; "Eat and Grown Thin" (1914); "Drink and Be Sober" (1911) ; "Woman" (1917). THOMPSON, WILL L., an American song-vn-iter ; born in Beaver co., Pa., Nov. 7, 1847; was educated at the Boston Mu- sical School and the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1870-1875 and later studied in Germany, where he was graduated at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music. His works include "Thompson's Class and Concert"; "Thompson's Popular An- thems"; about 100 popular songs, such as "Gathering Shells on the Sea Shore"; "Drifting with the Tide"; "Come Where the Lilies Bloom"; and contributions to almost every hymnal and gospel song collection published in the United States. His "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Call- ing" has had a world-wide publication. He died Sept. 20, 1909. THOMPSON, WILLIAM BOYCE, an American banker; born in Virginia City, Mont., 1869, and finished his education at the School of Mines of Columbia Univer- sity. He has been a director of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York since its organization. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention in 1916; and was head of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia for four months during 1917, his reports of Russian conditions at that time attracting general public interest. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HALE, mayor of Chicago, 111.; born in Boston, Mass., 1869. In early infancy he was taken to Chicago by his parents, where he received a common school education. For five years he worked on various cat- tle ranches in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, and was then manager of a cattle ranch in Nebraska for three years. He then took up the management of his father's real estate interests and, later, of his own. In 1900 he was elected alder- man from the Second Ward. In 1915 he was elected Mayor of the city for a term of four years, and again in 1919. Since 1916 he has been a member of the Re- publican National Committee. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEP- WORTH, an English classical scholar; born in York, England, March 27, 1810; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge; became Regius Professor of Greek in 1853; and in 1866 succeeded Whewell as master of his college. He projected a great edition of Plato, but accomplished only the "Phsedrus" and "Gorgias." He died Oct. 1, 1886. THOMPSON, WILLIAM OXLEY, an American educator; born in Cambridge, O., Nov. 5, 1855; was graduated at Mus- kingum College in 1878, and at the West- ern Theological Seminary in Allegheny City, Pa., in 1882. He was ordained to the Presbsrterian ministry in the latter year; held pastorates in Odebolt, la., in 1882-1885; and in Longmont, Col., in 1885-1891; was president of Miami Uni- versity in Oxford, O., in 1891-1899; and on July 13, 1899, was chosen president of the Ohio State University. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HOWARD, United States Senator; born in Craw- fordsville, Ind., 1871. As a small child he went to Kansas with his parents. In 1886 he graduated from the Seneca Nor- mal School, then for two years studied law under his father, being admitted to the bar of Kansas in 1894, In 1906 he was elected judge of the 32d Judicial Dis- trict. In 1913 he was elected to the United States Senate for the term 1913- 1919. In 1916 he was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention and was there a member of the platform committee. THOMPSON, WORDSWORTH, an American artist; born in Baltimore, Md., May 26, 1840; began the study of art in Paris in 1861, and in the following year became a pupil of Charles Gleyre. In 1868 he came to the United States; set- tled in New York City, and in 1873 sent to the National Academy a picture en- titled "Desolation," which secured his election as academician in 1875. In 1878 he became a member of the Society of American Artists, sending to the first ex- hibition a picture entitled "The Road to the Sawmill." He was a constant ex- hibitor at the National Academy. His pictures are chiefly Oriental and Ameri- can historical scenes. He died in Sum- mit, N. J., Aug. 28, 1896. THOMPSON-SETON, ERNEST, an American author and artist; born in South Shields, England, Aug. 14, 1860; lived in the backwoods of Canada in 1866- 1870, and on the Western plains in 1882- 1887; was educated at the Toronto Col- legiate Institute and Royal Academy, London; became official naturalist to the
