Thoni'oi (Bo^toi', Vulg. Coesi), a corrupt (ireek form (1 Esdr. V, ;)2) of the Ileb. name (^lizra ii, 53; Xeh. vii, 55) T.VMAIl or THA.MAII (4. v.).
Thompson, Alexander Scroggs, a Presbyte- rian minister, was born April 28, 18o-l, at Big Spring (Springfield), Cumberland Co., Pa. He received his early education at Newville Academy under Rev. Rob- ert 3IcCachren, and at Shippensburg Collegiate Insti- tute under Prof. R. L. Sibbet. At an early age he joined the United Presbyterian Church of Big Spring, near Newville. He graduated from Jefferson College, Pa., ill 186-lr, and soon after entered Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J. There he studied two years (1864- 66), and afterwards spent a third year (1866-67) at the Western Seminary at Allegheny, Pa. He was li- censed by New Brunswick Presbytery April 18, 1866, and supplied New Harmony Church in Donegal Pres- bytery during the summer of that year. He was or- dained by the Presbytery of Allegheny at Worthington, Armstrong Co., Pa., Nov. 20, 1867, and on the same day installed pastor of Worthington Church. This relation continueil until his death, which occurred suddenly, Dec. 4, 1878. He was retiring in his manners, true in his friendships, a very successful minister, and a model pas- tor. His remains were buried at Newville, Pa. (W.P. S.)
Thompson, Amherst L., a young Congrega- tional missionary, was born at Peru, Mass., in 1834. Converted at the age of fourteen, he resolved to prepare himself for the ministry. Trusting in Providence and his own arm, he went through the curriculum of Monson Academy and Amherst College, graduating in 1856. He studied theology partly at Xew York and partly at An- dover, graduating at the latter place. He was ordained to the missionary work at Amherst Feb. 2, 1860, and on the loth, in company with eight other missionaries, sailed from Boston for I'rumiyah, Persia, wliere he ar- rived .July 1. On Aug. 16 he was taken with a se\ore chill, which soon developed into a terrible fever, complet- ing its fatal work on the 25th. He sleeps by the side of Stoddard in the little mission burying-ground in Mt.Seir, Urumiyah. ilr. Tiiompson had a vigorous and keen in- tellect, coolness and strong common-sense, and a brilliant imagination. As a man and a Christian he is repre- sented as a model. At his graduation at Andover he delivered an essay on Congregatiomd Church PoUtij Adapted to Foreiffii Missionnri/ Work; which was pub- lished in the Conr/. Quurlerli/, .Jan. 1860. See Coiiff. Quar. Rev. 1861, p. 67,
Thompson, Anthony, A.B., an English Congre- gatiiinul niiiii>ter. was born at Alnwick in 1835. He graduated at Spring Hill College, and matriculated at the London L'uiversity. In 18(;o he accepted a call from Douglas, Isle of Man, and, full of zeal and hope, entered upon his labors. His pulpit ministrations were marked by many tokens of blessings. He had a deep consciousness of the responsibilities attending his posi- tion, and faithfully fulfilled the duties devolving upon him. He died April 5, 1866. See (Lond.) Coikj. Year- book, 1867, p. 322.
Thompson, Anthony F., a ^lefhodist Episcopal minister, was Imuii in Kentucky, Sept. 2, isix;. He be- came an exiiorter in 1824, and was soon after licensed as a local preacher, received on trial in 1829, appointed to Terre Haute Circuit, Indiana Conference, in 1832, and died May 10, 1833. He was a young man of excellent talents. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, ii, 277.
Thompson, Charles, a Presbyterian minister, was b(ini at Salem, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1831. He was con- verted in 1853; educated at ^Monmouth College and Theological Seminary, Monnioutii, III.; licensed by Clii- cago Presbytery April 3, 1863; ordained by JMoiimouth Presbytery pastor of Olena and Oquaka churches. III., June 17, 1863 ; and died Dec. 31, 186.5. He was a good man, " walked with God," and preached in demonstra- tion of the spirit, and with power. See Wilson, Presb, Hist. Alnutnac, 1867, p. 363,
Thompson, Frederick Bordine, a missionary of the Ketornieil Cluireh in America to Borneo, was born in 1810. and united with the Church in New Brunswick, under Rev. Dr. James B. Hardenljergh, at the age of seventeen. His pastor having induced him to prepare for the ministry, he graduated at Rutgers College in 1831, and at the Theological Seminary in New Bruns- wick in 1834. After being settled as pastor of the Church at Upper Red Hook, N. X., from 1834 till 1836, he determined to devote himself to foreign missionary work, and was sent by the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions, and the Board of Foreign Missions of his own Church, with the devoted William J. Rohlman, to join the mission in Borneo. He reached Singapore Sept. 17, 1838, and labored at Karangan, one of the two stations occupied by the mission (the other being Sambas), for several years, with great industry and devotion to his work, among the Dyaks. His first wife, formerly a Miss Wyckoff. of New Brunswick, died in 1839. In 1840 he married a Swiss lady, JMiss Combe, a teacher in the mission, who also died, in 1844. In 1847 a hemorrhage of the lungs compelled him to de- sist from labor; and, by medical advice, he sailed for Europe with his motherless daughter, to place her with her relatives in Switzerland, and to try the benefit of the change of climate for himself. At first he im- proved, but the disease returned, and he died Jan. 17. 1848. Thus ended the brief career of one whose piety, talents, and consecration bade fair to place him, if he had been sjiared, among the very first of modern evan- gelists to the heathen. He was a grave, quiet, devxjut, and intensely earnest man. His missionary trials and last illness were borne with patient submission lo the will of (iod, and with clear views of his acceptance and jieace with the Lord. His labors among the Dyaks, like those of the whole mission, seemed to be fruitless of immediate results; but his name lives in the Churcli as a power for missions, and perhaps in future ages Borneo will enshrine it among her first evangelists. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Ch. p. 489, (W. J. R. T,)