Background
Thompson, Joseph Parrish was born on August 7, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaac and Mary Anne (Hanson) Thompson.
abolitionist minister pastor author
Thompson, Joseph Parrish was born on August 7, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaac and Mary Anne (Hanson) Thompson.
Graduated from Yale, 1838. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Harvard, 1856. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 1868.
He was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in New York from 1845 to 1871 and was one of the founders in 1848 of The Independent, an anti-slavery religious weekly based in New York, serving as one of its editors until 1862. He was the author of a number of works including Church and State in the United States (1873) and Manitoba in Genesis and Geology (1870), a work addressing issues of science and faith in the light of Darwinism. He devoted much of his time to Oriental studies, with the results of these labors appearing in Bibliotheca Sacra, the North American Review, and other journals.
He traveled abroad in 1852-1854, and from 1873 until his death in 1879 he lived in Berlin.
Member editorial board Independent, 1848-1862.
Married Lucy Olivia Bartlett, May 5, 1841. Married second, Elizabeth Coit Gilman, October 25, 1853, 6 children including William Gilman, John Hanson.