Thompson, George C, a INIethodist Episcopal minister, was bmii at Nanticoke, Luzerne Co., Pa., Jan, 15, 1817. He was converted in December, 1832, edu- cated at Cazenovia Seminary, licensed to preach Aug. 6, 1836, received on trial in the Oneida Conference in 1840, and appointed to Dundaff Station: in 1841, to Montrose Circuit; in 1842, ordained elder and reappointed to the same circuit; in 1843 he became insane, and died Sept,
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18, 1846, at the New York Lunatic Asylum in Utica. His talents as a minister wore elevated. " In ministerial labors he was abundant, in mental a|iplication he was excessive." See Minutes nf'.l nnual Caiiforences, iv, 257.
Thompson, George Washington, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was burn at New Providence, Es- sex Co., N. J., Oct. 10, 1810; converted in 183.5; gradu- ated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., and at the Princeton Theological Seminar}-; was licensed by the Presbj'tery of New Brunswick ; ordained pastor of the churches of Mifflinsburg and New Berlin, 184"2; be- came pastor of the Church of Lower Tiiscarora in 1847, and remained there seventeen years. He died Jan. 28, 18G4. Dr. Thompson bad an acute, ready, practical mind. As a scholar he was thorough and critical ; his Expository Lectures on Daniel and on the Romans dis- play a vast amount of patient research, deep thinking, critical analysis, and fidl knowledge of the teachings of the Bible. See Wilson, Presh. Hist, Almanac, 18G5, p. 123. (J. L. S.)
Thompson, John, a Presbyterian minister, was born near Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 11, 1772. He received his literary training in the Ken- tucky Academy, Lexington, studied theology privately, was licensed by Transylvania Presbytery in 1799, and ordained by Washington Presbytery, O., in 1801. He was pastor of Glendale Church, O., 1801-33; then re- moved to Indiana, became a member of Crawfordsville Presbytery, and labored as an evangelist. He died Feb. 15, 1859. He was an earnest revival preacher, an elo- quent and successful minister, and many persons were hopefully converted under his labors. See Wilson, Fresh. I'list. Almanac, 18G0, p. 123.
Thompson, Jonathan, a Wesleyan Jlethodist preacher, was born at Torhouse, Haltwbistle, Nortlumi- berland, England. In his early life he resided for a time in Ayr, Scotland. He was converted under Cown- ley at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 178(5 he returned to Ayr, where he officiated as a local preacher. In 1789 he came out to labor in connection with the British Conference, and was sent to the Inverness Circuit. He was soon cut down by a fever in Elgin, Morayshire. He was interred in the same tomb that had received the remains of the holy Joshua Keighley only a year before. Young Thompson was a man of holiness and much prayer. "His great zeal for God, united with the fervor and imprudence of youth, led him to excessive labor in the work of his great Master, which proved the cause of his death." See Minutes of Wesleyan Confer- ences, 1790; Atmore, Meth. Memorial, s. v.
Thompson,JosephParrish,D.D.,LL.D.,an em- inent Congregational divine, was born in Philadelphia, Aug. 7, 1819. He graduated at Yale College in 1838. Afterwards he pursued the study of theology at the An- dover and New Haven Theological schools. In Novem- l)er, 1840, he was ordained pastor of the Chapel Street Congregational Church in New Haven, ^^'hile occu- pying this position. Dr. Thompson assisted in establish- ing The New-En(/lamler. He published also, while at New Haven, a Memoir of Timothy Diriyht. In 1845 he was called to the pastoral charge of the Broadway Tab- ernacle Cliurch in New York city, and was installed on the 15th of April of that year. For some years the Tab- ernacle continued to be a great centre of religious inter- est. The vast edifice was often thronged by a congre- gation composed of strangers, young men, and those who had no regular place of worship. The Tabernacle Church was the mother of several Congregational churches in New York and Brooklyn. The society de termined to sell the Tabernacle in 1855, and the new church was built at the intersection of Broadwa}', Sixth Ave., and Thirty-fourth Street. This building was com- pleted in 1859, and dedicated April 24 of that year. Un der the ministry of Dr. Thompson the society flourished exceedinglj'. When the church was dedicated there was a debt upon it of $65,000. No pews were sold, as