Background
Thompson, Henry Adams was born on March 23, 1837 in Stormstown, Center County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Lydia (Blake) Thompson.
Thompson, Henry Adams was born on March 23, 1837 in Stormstown, Center County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Lydia (Blake) Thompson.
Bachelor of Arts, Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, 1858. Student Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Doctor of Divinity, Jefferson, 1873.
Doctor of Laws, Westfield College, Illinois, 1886.
Taught select school, Marion and Noblesville, Indiana, 1861. Professor mathematics, Western College, Iowa, 1861-1862. Same, Otterbein U., O., 1862-1867.
Superintendent public schools, Troy, O., 1867-1871. Professor mathematics, Westfield College, 1871-1872. President Otterbein U., 1872-1886.
Candidate for Congress, Prohibition ticket, 1874, for lieutenant governor of Ohio, 1875, for government 1877. Chairman National Prohibition Convention, 1876. Nominated for vice president on ticket with Neal Dow, 1880.
Delegate Methodist Ecumenical Conference, London, 1881. Commissioner department science and education at Ohio Centennial Exposition, Columbus, 1889. Associate editor S.S. literature, 1893-1897, editor-in-chief S.S. literature U.B. Church, 1897-1901.
Editor United Brethren Quarterly Review, 1901-1909. Frequent contributor to Telescope, journal of U.B. Church Prohibition candidate for government of Ohio, 1911. Author: Schools of the Prophets.
Power of the Invisible. Our Bishops: Biography of Bishop J. Wearer. Bible Study and Devotion, 1905.
Women of the Bible, 1914. Address: Dayton, O.
Married Harriet E. Copeland, August 7, 1862.