Background
Thompson, Charles Miner was born on March 24, 1864 in Montpelier, Vermont, United States. Son of George R. and Serafina (Taplin) Thompson.
Thompson, Charles Miner was born on March 24, 1864 in Montpelier, Vermont, United States. Son of George R. and Serafina (Taplin) Thompson.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1886.
Editor Boston Advertiser, 1887-1890. Associate editor, 1890-1911, editor-in-chief Youth’s Companion, 1911-1925. Connected with the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, until 1936.
Honorary member Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Author: The Nimble Dollar (a book for boys), 1896. The Calico Cat, 1908. An Army Mule (humorous fiction), 1910.
Translator: Wild Heart (from the French of Isabelle Sandy), 1926. Demosthenes (from the French of Georges Clemenceau), 1926. In the Evening of My Thought (from the French of Georges Clemenceau), 1929.
America, the Menace (from the French of Georges Duhamel), 1931. Independent Vermont: A History of the State down to its admission into the Union in 1791, 1941.
Member Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Isabella Wayman Carr, April.; married Leonora Bailey Colt, August 12, 1939.