Background
Thomas, Hiram Washington was born on April 29, 1832 in Hampshire Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Joseph and Margaret (McDonald) Thomas.
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Hiram Washington Thomas
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Educated in common schools, Preston Company, Virginia, Cooperstown Seminary, Pennsylvania, and Berlin. Studied under private tutors (Doctor of Divinity, Indiana Asbury University, 1870).
Career
Entered ministry of Evangelical Association, 1852. Of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1856. Went to Chicago, 1869.
Tried for heresy and expelled from Methodist Church, 1881.
Pastor of The People's Church, McVicker’s Theatre, Chicago, 1880-1901. Emeritus and in the ministry at large, and chaplain 1st Regiment, I.N.G., from 1881.
Long popular as a pulpit orator. President Congress of Religion.
Author: Origin and Destiny of Manitoba
Life and Sermons. The People's Pulpit. Etc. Home: Chicago, Illinois.
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Married Emeline C. Merrick, March 19, 1855 (died 1896). Married second, Vandelia Varnum, August 16, 1899.
