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Thomas was born at Kingsport, Tennessee. His father, Stephen Thomas, was of German descent, and his mother, Maria (Rogan) Thomas, was of Irish parentage.
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Thomas was born at Kingsport, Tennessee. His father, Stephen Thomas, was of German descent, and his mother, Maria (Rogan) Thomas, was of Irish parentage.
Cyrus received a village school education and attended the academy at Jonesboro, Tenn. In his formative period, filled with ambition and in perfect health, he studied medicine, law, theology, and natural history.
He occupied several teaching and official positions before he found his major pursuit in anthropology. Of his earlier studies entomology was his chief interest, especially on the economic side, and he wrote in this period thirty-eight valuable scientific papers among which was his Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois, Sixth to Eleventh Reports of the State Entomologist, 1877-1882.
In 1882 the Bureau of American Ethnology called for his services. He had already done some work on the mounds, and for the Bureau he pursued the study of the mound areas of the United States for several field seasons, directing a large force in plotting and excavating the mounds, the collections being placed in the National Museum. A review of this work was published as the twelfth annual report of the Bureau in 1894 under the title Report on Mound Explorations.
A number of his papers on the aspects of the mound question appeared in various bulletins and journals. He did much to controvert the general belief that the mound builders were a mysterious ancient race by proving that the remains are those of American Indians. In the interim of seasonal field expeditions he pursued the study of the Maya culture, beginning as early as 1881 when he published several papers. The more important of these are A Study of the Manuscript Troano, Contributions to North American Ethnology, volume IV (1882); Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts, Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1884); Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices, Sixth Annual Report (1888); and The Maya Year, Bulletin No. 18, Bureau of American Ethnology (1894). Papers by him on Mayan Calendar Systems, Numeral Systems of Mexico and Central America are to be found in the nineteenth and twenty-second Bureau reports, published in 1900 and 1904. He also found time to produce works of a more general character: The Indians of North America in Historic Times (1903), second volume of the History of North America Series and, with William J. McGee, Prehistoric North America (1905), the nineteenth volume of the Series.
Thomas held many positions of trust. He was clerk of Jackson County, Ill. , 1850-53, and later in charge of the schools of DeSoto, Ill. From 1865 to 1869 he was minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in that town. He was principal founder of the Illinois Natural History Society in 1858, professor of natural sciences in an Illinois normal school, 1873-75, state entomologist of Illinois, 1874-76, and member of the United States Entomological Commission, 1876-77.
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He was member of many scientific societies.
Thomas was possessed of tireless energy and an individuality that brushed aside all obstacles to his mental growth.
His first wife was Dorothy Adeline Logan, the sister of John A. Logan, to whom he was married on June 13, 1853. After her death he was married to Viola L. Davis on April 20, 1865. They had six children.