Background
Thompson, William Boyce was born on May 13, 1869 in Virginia City, Montana, United States. Son of William and Anna M. (Boyce) Thompson.
Thompson, William Boyce was born on May 13, 1869 in Virginia City, Montana, United States. Son of William and Anna M. (Boyce) Thompson.
Educated Phillips Exeter Academy and Columbia University School of Mines. Doctor of Laws, University of Pittsburgh, 1921, University of Kentucky, 1923. Doctor of Science, University of Arizona, 1929.
Mistress Boyce Thompson Schulz). Director Federal Reserve Bank of New York from organization until December 1919. Director Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Republican presidential elector, 1912.
Delegate Republican National Convention, 1916, 1920. President, founder and endower Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Honorary president Roosevelt Memorial Association.
Trustee Phillips Exeter Academy Head of America Red Cross Mission to Russia, 1917. Envoy extraordinary of the United States to first Centennial of the Proclamation of Independence of Republic of Peru, July 1921. Member of advisory commission to American delegation in Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1921.
Member of advisory commission to American delegation in Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1921.
Married Gertrude Hickman, February 6, 1895.