Thompson, Lewis

Thompson, Lewis a Presbyterian minister, was born at Volney, N. Y., April 25, 1830. After receiving a classical education, he entered the Union Theological Seminary in 1854, aid, completing the course, graduated in 1857. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Church in Whippany, N. J., June 9,1857. He remained in this charge with great acceptability and usefulness until 1869, when he resigned to become editor of a religious paper in Bricksburg, N. J. He occupied this post for two years, and then removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and became a classical teacher, in the occupancy of which position he died, April 19,1873. (W. P. S.)