Pacific service magazine . h hishigh sense of pa-triotic duty. Whenthe Government is-sued calls for vol-unteers Mr. Thomp-son was one of thefirst to respond, al-though but a fewmonths were toelapse before theprecluding agelimit. When calledin December, 1917,he was sent to theReserve OfficersTraining Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia, where, as was to beexpected, he ranked high on the list offifty who were graduated; 900 started incamp and about 450 were left to take theexaminations. He received a captains commission andwas sent to Camp Devens, Mass., to servewith the Twenty-ninth Engineers. Fromthere
Pacific service magazine . h hishigh sense of pa-triotic duty. Whenthe Government is-sued calls for vol-unteers Mr. Thomp-son was one of thefirst to respond, al-though but a fewmonths were toelapse before theprecluding agelimit. When calledin December, 1917,he was sent to theReserve OfficersTraining Camp at Camp Lee, Virginia, where, as was to beexpected, he ranked high on the list offifty who were graduated; 900 started incamp and about 450 were left to take theexaminations. He received a captains commission andwas sent to Camp Devens, Mass., to servewith the Twenty-ninth Engineers. Fromthere he was sent to France in July Thompson was born forty-oneyears ago in Rehoboth, Del., one of a largefamily. Some of the members still resideat Lewes, Del., a town nearby. His earlylife was varied as to school and employ-ment. He received his academical degreefrom the University of New York, and,with his natural ambition, he sought toimprove his condition and subsequentlystudied law and was admitted to the bar. in New York State. Finding this not tohis liking he took up electrical engineer-ing, finally finding employment with theNew York Edison Companys forces, fromwhich in August, 1910, he was asked byMr. Lisberger to come to our San Fran-cisco District as Engineer of Electric^^ Dis-tribution. There heserved until Janu-ary 1st of this year,at which time heentered the serviceof the United was a bach-elor. He made hishome in San Fran-cisco at the ElksClub. He was thefirst chairman ofPacific Servicesection of the Na-tional ElectricLight coming toSan Francisco hewas president ofthe New- YorkEdison CompanysEmployees A s s o-ciation, a large in-stitution. The ad-vantages of socialaggregations of menseemed to appeal tohim very much, forhe was always uponcommittees of ourPacific Service Employees Association,and, in addition, he suggested and formedan organized group of about a hun-dred of his own men who met for mutualassistance and study for
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