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 . ess, then be-came interested in the Wel-lington Review and theBraceville Gazette, beingat ene time interested in andpartly owning three week-lies and one daily. After set-tling in
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 . ess, then be-came interested in the Wel-lington Review and theBraceville Gazette, beingat ene time interested in andpartly owning three week-lies and one daily. After set-tling in St. Paul, he becameemployed on the daily Dis-patch, and after threemonths owned one-third ofthe paper, of which he final-ly became .sole proprietor. In1886 he assumed editorial control of the Dispatch,which has since been a stanch republican organ. Inaddition to his work in the editorial and business man-agement of his paper, Mr. Thompson has taken a prom-inent part in all matters pertaining to the advance-ment of the city. He was first to originate the ideaof holding a winter carnival in that city, ajid building a magnificent ice palace, which was for seasons carried into successful was president of the carnival association inl886-87Mr. Thompson was married in 1885 to Abbie , of Joliet, 111. He is one of the most uncompromising republicans of Minnesotas capital SLr,yji> <^^**^^. OB AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 169 SIEEKEB, Stephen Jones, iron-founder, pres-ident New Jersey commission Worlds Columbianexposition, was born in Newark, N. J., March 17,1843. His American ancestor was one of the early-settlers of that part of Connecticut formerly knownas the New Haven colony. His immediate ancestorwas Joseph Meeker, who removed from Connecticutto New Jersey previous to the revolution, and wasone of the proprietors of the Connecticut his maternal side Mr. Meeker is descended fromthe Gardners, who settled first in Virginia and afte
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