The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nean squadron, until Septem-ber, 1869. He was commissionedas ensign that year, and ordered to duty at thetorpedo station, Newport, R. I., being one of thefirst officers selected fo
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . nean squadron, until Septem-ber, 1869. He was commissionedas ensign that year, and ordered to duty at thetorpedo station, Newport, R. I., being one of thefirst officers selected for this duty; received his com-mission as a master in July, 1870; joined the Wachu-sett at New York in 1871, and served on board thatship in the Mediterranean until December of thatyear, when his resignation from the navy was ac-cepted, and he returned to private life. He enteredthe law office of Geo. A. Jenks, at Brookville,Pa., and was admitted to the bar in 1872. In thesame year he entered the Harvard Law School, andwas graduated in 1874 with the degree of was appointed assistant reporter of the supremejudicial court of Massachusetts, and assisted in mak-ing up volumes 115 and 116 of the MassachusettsLaw Reports. In 1875 he opened a law ofiice in Bos-ton; was elected a member of the common council ofBoston in 1876, and again in the following year. argued a number of important cases, and. caused the precedent to be established, by a decisionof the supreme court of the state, that a few pilesdriven into the ground, with good intentions, consti-tuted a house of religious worship. This decisionsaved the society of Trinity church several thousandsof dollars that would have otherwise gone to paytaxes. In 1879 Mr. Thompson took charge of theOrford Nickel and Copper Co., now one of the largestproducers of nickel in the world, and subsequentlybecame its president. It is in part due to him thatthe economical smelting of copper ore in large rec-tangular brick cupola
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