Researching Joseph Thompson
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The name Joseph means "God shall add (another son)" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joseph Thompson and the Thompson Genealogy
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Joseph Thompson (Canadian politician)
Joseph Elijah Thompson (July 19, 1867 – March 16, 1941) was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario from 1924 to 1926 and served as Conservative MLA for St. David and Toronto Northeast from 1919 to 1929.
This was the period of the Ontario Liberal Conservative Party's rule under Howard Ferguson.
Thompson was born in Toronto, the son of Joseph Thompson, and grew up in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood. He was educated at Dufferin School and Jarvis Collegiate. At 17, he was employed as a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1889, he became a treasury clerk for the city of Toronto. In 1898, he married Ida M. Wilkinson. In 1907, he became Toronto's Commissioner of Industry and Publicity. In 1908, Thompson entered business on his own as an insurance broker. He served as city controller in 1915. He was a captain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
After he left politics in 1929, he was named registrar for the Toronto surrogate court. Thompson lost this appointment in 1934 and returned to the insurance business. In 1939, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on Toronto city council. He died in Toronto two years later.
Source: Joseph Thompson (Canadian politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJoseph Parrish Thompson
Joseph Parrish Thompson (1819–1879) was an abolitionist and Congregationalist minister. He was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York from 1845 to 1871, (also known as Broadway United Church of Christ and Second Free Presbyterian Church). His major life accomplishments include founding The Independent, an anti-slavery religious weekly started in 1848, contributing and managing The New Englander (later re-named the Yale Review), served as president of the American Union Commission, being a member of the committee to create the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, played a major role in the development of 20 Congregational churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. and assisted the Treaty of Berlin with the religious liberty clause.
Source: Joseph Parrish Thompson, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Thompson
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