Presbyterian preacher who was one of the signers of "The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery" in 1804. He married Nancy Steele Aug. 26, 1800. She was 27 years old.
In Memoriam.
Thompson, John—Was born near Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 11, 1772. His father had been a ruling elder in a Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and trained his family well, carefully instilling into their minds the truths of our holy religion. In 1793 his parents moved to Kentucky. Mr. Thomson soon began a course of study for the ministry, his literary studies being obtained at the Kentucky Academy, in Lexington. He studied Theology privately under Rev. Dr. Blythe of Lexington, Ky., afterwards President of Hanover College, Indiana. In 1799 he was licensed by Transylvania Presbytery, and ordained in 1801 by Washington Presbytery, at Springdale, Ohio. Shortly after his ordination he became identified with the New Light schism, and gathered around him a large number of followers, but they soon incorporated many errors into their system, and Mr. Thompson left them and returned to the Presbyterian Church; and for a period of over one third of a century, he was an eloquent and successful minister. He was a pioneer missionary in South-western Ohio, and an earnest revival preacher; he organized many churches, and many persons were hopefully converted under his. He was pastor of Glendale Church from 1801 until 1833, when he removed to Indiana, and became a member of Crawfordville Presbytery, though he never became a pastor, but preferred laboring as an evangelist, whilst his strength lasted. He married Miss Nancy Steel of Lexington, Ky., their family consisted of eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Four of his sons became ministers, viz: James Thomson, for many years pastor of the Church in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is now at Mankato, Min.; Rev. John Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, where he died in 1842; Wm. M. Thomson, D.D., for twenty-five years a missionary of the American Board in Syria, and author of “The Land and the Book,” and Rev. S. S. Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, Ind. During the later years of his life he lived with his son Alexander Thomson, Esq., a ruling elder in the Church at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he died of paralysis, February 15, 1859.--Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1860, p. 123.
In Memoriam.
Thompson, John—Was born near Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 11, 1772. His father had been a ruling elder in a Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and trained his family well, carefully instilling into their minds the truths of our holy religion. In 1793 his parents moved to Kentucky. Mr. Thomson soon began a course of study for the ministry, his literary studies being obtained at the Kentucky Academy, in Lexington. He studied Theology privately under Rev. Dr. Blythe of Lexington, Ky., afterwards President of Hanover College, Indiana. In 1799 he was licensed by Transylvania Presbytery, and ordained in 1801 by Washington Presbytery, at Springdale, Ohio. Shortly after his ordination he became identified with the New Light schism, and gathered around him a large number of followers, but they soon incorporated many errors into their system, and Mr. Thompson left them and returned to the Presbyterian Church; and for a period of over one third of a century, he was an eloquent and successful minister. He was a pioneer missionary in South-western Ohio, and an earnest revival preacher; he organized many churches, and many persons were hopefully converted under his. He was pastor of Glendale Church from 1801 until 1833, when he removed to Indiana, and became a member of Crawfordville Presbytery, though he never became a pastor, but preferred laboring as an evangelist, whilst his strength lasted. He married Miss Nancy Steel of Lexington, Ky., their family consisted of eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Four of his sons became ministers, viz: James Thomson, for many years pastor of the Church in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is now at Mankato, Min.; Rev. John Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, where he died in 1842; Wm. M. Thomson, D.D., for twenty-five years a missionary of the American Board in Syria, and author of “The Land and the Book,” and Rev. S. S. Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, Ind. During the later years of his life he lived with his son Alexander Thomson, Esq., a ruling elder in the Church at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he died of paralysis, February 15, 1859.--Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1860, p. 123.
Presbyterian preacher who was one of the signers of "The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery" in 1804. He married Nancy Steele Aug. 26, 1800. She was 27 years old.
In Memoriam.
Thompson, John—Was born near Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 11, 1772. His father had been a ruling elder in a Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and trained his family well, carefully instilling into their minds the truths of our holy religion. In 1793 his parents moved to Kentucky. Mr. Thomson soon began a course of study for the ministry, his literary studies being obtained at the Kentucky Academy, in Lexington. He studied Theology privately under Rev. Dr. Blythe of Lexington, Ky., afterwards President of Hanover College, Indiana. In 1799 he was licensed by Transylvania Presbytery, and ordained in 1801 by Washington Presbytery, at Springdale, Ohio. Shortly after his ordination he became identified with the New Light schism, and gathered around him a large number of followers, but they soon incorporated many errors into their system, and Mr. Thompson left them and returned to the Presbyterian Church; and for a period of over one third of a century, he was an eloquent and successful minister. He was a pioneer missionary in South-western Ohio, and an earnest revival preacher; he organized many churches, and many persons were hopefully converted under his. He was pastor of Glendale Church from 1801 until 1833, when he removed to Indiana, and became a member of Crawfordville Presbytery, though he never became a pastor, but preferred laboring as an evangelist, whilst his strength lasted. He married Miss Nancy Steel of Lexington, Ky., their family consisted of eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Four of his sons became ministers, viz: James Thomson, for many years pastor of the Church in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is now at Mankato, Min.; Rev. John Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, where he died in 1842; Wm. M. Thomson, D.D., for twenty-five years a missionary of the American Board in Syria, and author of “The Land and the Book,” and Rev. S. S. Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, Ind. During the later years of his life he lived with his son Alexander Thomson, Esq., a ruling elder in the Church at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he died of paralysis, February 15, 1859.--Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1860, p. 123.
In Memoriam.
Thompson, John—Was born near Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Pa., Nov. 11, 1772. His father had been a ruling elder in a Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and trained his family well, carefully instilling into their minds the truths of our holy religion. In 1793 his parents moved to Kentucky. Mr. Thomson soon began a course of study for the ministry, his literary studies being obtained at the Kentucky Academy, in Lexington. He studied Theology privately under Rev. Dr. Blythe of Lexington, Ky., afterwards President of Hanover College, Indiana. In 1799 he was licensed by Transylvania Presbytery, and ordained in 1801 by Washington Presbytery, at Springdale, Ohio. Shortly after his ordination he became identified with the New Light schism, and gathered around him a large number of followers, but they soon incorporated many errors into their system, and Mr. Thompson left them and returned to the Presbyterian Church; and for a period of over one third of a century, he was an eloquent and successful minister. He was a pioneer missionary in South-western Ohio, and an earnest revival preacher; he organized many churches, and many persons were hopefully converted under his. He was pastor of Glendale Church from 1801 until 1833, when he removed to Indiana, and became a member of Crawfordville Presbytery, though he never became a pastor, but preferred laboring as an evangelist, whilst his strength lasted. He married Miss Nancy Steel of Lexington, Ky., their family consisted of eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Four of his sons became ministers, viz: James Thomson, for many years pastor of the Church in Crawfordsville, Ind., and is now at Mankato, Min.; Rev. John Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, where he died in 1842; Wm. M. Thomson, D.D., for twenty-five years a missionary of the American Board in Syria, and author of “The Land and the Book,” and Rev. S. S. Thomson, Professor in Wabash College, Ind. During the later years of his life he lived with his son Alexander Thomson, Esq., a ruling elder in the Church at Crawfordsville, Ind., where he died of paralysis, February 15, 1859.--Published in Joseph M. Wilson, The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, and Annual Remembrances of the Church, for 1860, Philadelphia: Joseph M. Wilson, 1860, p. 123.
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