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He was son of Jesse Burgess and Adeline Clarissa (Smith) Thomas, was descended from English ancestors who settled in Maryland in the middle of the seventeenth century. Several of the family were distinguished members of the legal profession; his father was a judge of the supreme court of Illinois; his great-uncle, another Jesse Burgess Thomas, had been a federal judge in Illinois Territory and one of the state's first senators.
Young Jesse graduated from Kenyon College in 1850, studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1852. Later, feeling an obligation to prepare for the ministry, he entered Rochester Theological Seminary, but withdrew after a year to engage in mercantile business, and soon returned to the law. After five years more of practice, however, he decided definitely for the ministry and in 1862 was ordained at Waukegan, Ill. , becoming pastor of the local Baptist church. His gifts of eloquence and leadership recommended him to the Pierrepont Street Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. , where he served four years, a period followed by a few months in the First Baptist Church, San Francisco, and a longer term as pastor of the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago.
In 1874, the Pierrepont Street and First Baptist churches of Brooklyn having merged, he was called to be pastor of the united congregation. Here he remained for fourteen years. A natural orator, logical in thought, incisive in utterance, picturesque in style, kindly of heart, and of winsome personality, he was one of several Brooklyn ministers – including Henry Ward Beecher, Richard S. Storrs, and T. De Witt Tallmage – who were nationally renowned as preachers.
In theology he was conservative; when it seemed as if the higher criticism and the arguments of the scientists threatened his cherished beliefs, he spoke strongly of his convictions in the pulpit and on the lecture platform, and wrote books to express his opinions more amply. In 1888 Thomas left the pastorate to become professor of church history in the Newton Theological Institution, Newton Center, Massachussets After seventeen years of teaching he became professor emeritus, serving as minister-at-large. He was also nominally pastor emeritus of his old church in Brooklyn, in which city he died.
He is remembered as a clergyman and professor emeritus, whose publications included The Old Bible and the New Science (1877); "Significance of the Historic Element in Scripture, " in Joseph Cook's Christ and Modern Thought (1881); The Mould of Doctrine (copyright 1882); Some Parables of Nature (1911); and The Church and the Kingdom, a New Testament Study (1914).
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He was married, May 30, 1855, to Abbie Anne Eastman of Ottawa County, Mich. , and had five sons and three daughters; four of his children died young.
