James Thomson

Background

Thomson was born in Springfield, Vt, May 21, 1808, the son of John and Elizabeth (Brown) Thomson.

Education

After several years" experience in teaching, he entered Yale College in 1829, but on completing the Freshman year was obliged to be absent on account of illness, and so fell back into the next class and graduated in 1834.

Career

He removed to the city of New York in 1846, where (and in Brooklyn) he spent the rest of his life, engaged to the last in the completion and revision of a series of mathematical works, which has met with considerable success. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hamilton College in 1853, and again from the University of Tennessee in 1882. He removed his residence to Brooklyn in 1868, and for eight years before his decease was a great sufferer from rheumatism.

He died in Brooklyn, June 22, 1883, in his 76th year.

This article incorporates public domain material from the 1884 Yale Obituary Record.

Connections

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Yale President