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BIO: Walter B. Thomas, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Denise Phillips Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ________________________________________________ Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 254-255. ________________________________________________ THOMAS, WALTER B., was born in Ewhurst Green, Sussex County, England, on December 31, 1819, and died in Carbondale, Pa., on May 13, 1897. His parents were both members of the Methodist Church, and at an early age united with the same Church. He preached his first sermon at seventeen years of age. he did service in the ranks of the local ministry sixteen years before coming to America. After coming to this country he did work as a supply under Rev. Zachariah Paddock, presiding elder, for a short time and in 1853 joined Wyoming Conference. In October, 1853, he married Miss Abigail Caroline Turner, of Silver Lake, Pa. On September 1, 1884, after suffering from pulmonary disease for some time, she passed from their pleasant home in Athens, Pa., to heavenly mansions. Husband and wife are buried in the cemetery at Athens, Pa. One son was born to them, Professor A. P. Thomas, now living at Carbondale. When he retired from active work, and the proposition was made to make his claim upon the superannuates’ fund first class instead of second, with grace and magnanimity he objected, saying, “I can earn a little, and others may suffer if my claim is increased.” He did good work at bookbinding for a number of years. His pastoral record is as follows: 1853, Montrose; 1854, Berkshire; 1855, Vestal; 1856-57, Athens; 1858-59, Nichols; 1860-61, Orwell; 1862- 63, Gibson; 1864-65, Lisle and Whitney’s Point; 1866-67, Castle Creek; 1868-69, Windsor; 1870, North New Berlin; 1871, Middlefield; 1872-73, Bainbridge; 1874-75, Morris; 1876-77, Westville; 1878, Exeter; 1879-81, Broome; 1882-97, sd.

James ThompsonBookbinderNew YorkNew York 1.1. (1795) list of the Names of the persons who have died in New-York , of theYellow Fever, from the 29th of July, to the beginning of November, 1795. [http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Death/1795.YellowfeverDeath.html][1] [1]: http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Death/1795.YellowfeverDeath.html

John ThompsonBookbinder and Bookseller99 Pearl StreetNew York 1.1. (1807)  Thompson is listed in 1806 as a bookseller at 45 Bever. StephenSmith, The Art of Printing Shall Endure. A Thesis University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. pg. 198-992. (1808) Bookseller an Binder. Longworth’s American Almanac, pg. 309.John ThompsonBookbinder at Tuxworthres. P O AlyCincinnatiOhio 1.1. (1839) born England: Cincinnati City Directory, 1839-40

Peter ThompsonBookbinder107 Vine StreetPhiladelphiaPennsylvania ( 1816-1817) 1.1. Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.115.

Robert R. ThomsonBookbinder49 Leonard StreetNew YorkNew York ( 1820)  1.1.  Hannah French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand” from: “Bookbinding inAmerica” Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.1092. 11 Thomas  Street. Stephen Smith, The Art of Printing Shall Endure. AThesis University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.