Ohio History Journal

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WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON

WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON

By C. B. GALBREATH

On December 9, 1933, at the age of seventy-eight

years, one month and four days, Dr. William Oxley

Thompson,    president

emeritus of the Ohio

State  University,

breathed his last in

White Cross Hospital

in Columbus, at the

close of a remarkably

interesting and success-

ful career, "in different

but related fields of hu-

man endeavor."

He was the grand-

son of David Thomp-

son, a weaver by trade,

who came from the north of Ireland and settled in

Guernsey County near New Concord, Ohio, in 1814.

David Glenn Thompson, youngest son of David, married

at Cambridge, Ohio, June 8, 1854, Agnes Miranda Ox-

ley, daughter of Joel Murray Oxley. Of this union were

born ten children, the eldest of whom was William Ox-

ley Thompson, subject of this sketch, born at Cambridge,

November 5, 1855. In 1858 the family moved to New

Concord, where in 1864 the husband and father enlisted

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