Father, the Rev. Joseph Parnsh Thompson (B.A 1838, D D Harvard 1856, LL D. New York University 1868), a Congregational minister, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, for twenty-six years; editor-in-chief of 'The Independent 1848-1862, son of Isaac and Mary Anne (Hanson) Thompson, descendant of John Thompson, who came from London to Stratford, Conn , in 1635
Mother, Elizabeth Coit (Gilman) Thompson; daughter of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman, sister of Edward W Gilman (B A 1843) and Daniel C Gilman (B A 1852), president Johns Hopkins University 1875-1901; descendant of John Gilman, of Exeter, N H , who came from Norfolk, England, in 1638.
Yale relatives include: John H. Thompson (M D 1845) (na^brother); and Arthur C Gilman, ex-76 (cousin) Hopkins Grammar School and Polytechmcum, Carlsruhe, Germany. Biology course, corresponding secretary of Yale Society of Natural History, member Delta Psi. M D. Columbia 1881; during his course there spent a year (1879-1880) at the University of Berlin and at King's College Hospital, London, interne at New York Hospital 1881-87, from 1887 to 1898 connected with New York University Medical College (professor of physiology 1887-1895, matena medica 1895-97, and practice of medicine 1897-98), also professor of physiology at Woman's Medical College 1887-1895; on the establishment of Cornell University Medical College in New York City in 1898, became professor of medicine there and continued in that position until his retirement in 1915 as professor emeritus; had since devoted himself to private practice and to the study of occupational diseases; in 1918 organized the New York Clinic for the Functional Re-education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians, the nucleus of the present Reconstruction Hospital, and served as consulting physician until the time of his death; was also president 1918- 1925, member of board of directors and of its executive committee 1918-1927, and after his resignation from the board in July, 1927, honorary vice-president, m 1921 consolidated the 'old Demilt Dispensary and the Park Hospital with the New York Clinic and organized the Reconstruction Hospital, in 1924 became chairman of Industrial Hygiene Division of New York State Labor Department, visiting physician to New York Hospital 1887-1895, Presbyterian Hospital 1887-1912, and Bellevue Hospital 1896-1915, appointed consulting physician to Bellevue Hospital 1916; consulting physician to Nassau Hospital, Mineola, L I (medical service), 1898-1921, Woman's Hospital, New York, 1907-1927, St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lawrence Hospital, had also been consulting physician to Standard Oil Company of New Jersey since 1920, during the World War was a consultant in industrial hygiene for the Public Health Service and also served as member of Council of National Defense, trustee of New York Academy of Medicine for seventeen years, serving as its vice-president 1904-07, and had made special researches in connection with its Public Health Relations Committee; member New York Botanical Garden since its organization in 1896 and president of the board for ten years; vice-president Lenox (Mass.) Garden Club 1921—27; author: 'Training Schools for Nurses (1883), Practical Dietetics, with Special Reference to Diet m Disease (1895, second edition 1902; third edition 1905), A Textbook of Practical Medicine (190x3), and The Occupational Diseases (1914); had contributed numerous articles to medical journals and in 1897 was coeditor of American System of Medicine; contributed to Wood's Reference Handbook on the Medical Sciences and Occupational Diseases and Neurosis (1915), to Loose Leaf System of Medicine and Musser and Kelly's Practical Treatment (1917), and to Nelson's Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1919); member Association of American Physicians, American Medical Association, New York State and County Medical associations, New York Clinical Society, New York Practitioners' Medical and Surgical Society, New Hampshire State Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Associations of Alumni of Presbyterian, New York, and Bellevue hospitals and College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Council of American Numismatic Society
Married August 11, 1887, in San Rafael, Calif., Harriet Howard, daughter of John Norton Pomeroy (B.A. Hamilton 1847, LL D. 1865) and Ann Rebecca (Carter) Pomeroy, and sister of John N Pomeroy, '87
No children. Mrs. Thompson died May 27, 1926.
Death due to heart disease. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y
Survived by no immediate relatives.
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Mother, Elizabeth Coit (Gilman) Thompson; daughter of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman, sister of Edward W Gilman (B A 1843) and Daniel C Gilman (B A 1852), president Johns Hopkins University 1875-1901; descendant of John Gilman, of Exeter, N H , who came from Norfolk, England, in 1638.
Yale relatives include: John H. Thompson (M D 1845) (na^brother); and Arthur C Gilman, ex-76 (cousin) Hopkins Grammar School and Polytechmcum, Carlsruhe, Germany. Biology course, corresponding secretary of Yale Society of Natural History, member Delta Psi. M D. Columbia 1881; during his course there spent a year (1879-1880) at the University of Berlin and at King's College Hospital, London, interne at New York Hospital 1881-87, from 1887 to 1898 connected with New York University Medical College (professor of physiology 1887-1895, matena medica 1895-97, and practice of medicine 1897-98), also professor of physiology at Woman's Medical College 1887-1895; on the establishment of Cornell University Medical College in New York City in 1898, became professor of medicine there and continued in that position until his retirement in 1915 as professor emeritus; had since devoted himself to private practice and to the study of occupational diseases; in 1918 organized the New York Clinic for the Functional Re-education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians, the nucleus of the present Reconstruction Hospital, and served as consulting physician until the time of his death; was also president 1918- 1925, member of board of directors and of its executive committee 1918-1927, and after his resignation from the board in July, 1927, honorary vice-president, m 1921 consolidated the 'old Demilt Dispensary and the Park Hospital with the New York Clinic and organized the Reconstruction Hospital, in 1924 became chairman of Industrial Hygiene Division of New York State Labor Department, visiting physician to New York Hospital 1887-1895, Presbyterian Hospital 1887-1912, and Bellevue Hospital 1896-1915, appointed consulting physician to Bellevue Hospital 1916; consulting physician to Nassau Hospital, Mineola, L I (medical service), 1898-1921, Woman's Hospital, New York, 1907-1927, St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lawrence Hospital, had also been consulting physician to Standard Oil Company of New Jersey since 1920, during the World War was a consultant in industrial hygiene for the Public Health Service and also served as member of Council of National Defense, trustee of New York Academy of Medicine for seventeen years, serving as its vice-president 1904-07, and had made special researches in connection with its Public Health Relations Committee; member New York Botanical Garden since its organization in 1896 and president of the board for ten years; vice-president Lenox (Mass.) Garden Club 1921—27; author: 'Training Schools for Nurses (1883), Practical Dietetics, with Special Reference to Diet m Disease (1895, second edition 1902; third edition 1905), A Textbook of Practical Medicine (190x3), and The Occupational Diseases (1914); had contributed numerous articles to medical journals and in 1897 was coeditor of American System of Medicine; contributed to Wood's Reference Handbook on the Medical Sciences and Occupational Diseases and Neurosis (1915), to Loose Leaf System of Medicine and Musser and Kelly's Practical Treatment (1917), and to Nelson's Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1919); member Association of American Physicians, American Medical Association, New York State and County Medical associations, New York Clinical Society, New York Practitioners' Medical and Surgical Society, New Hampshire State Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Associations of Alumni of Presbyterian, New York, and Bellevue hospitals and College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Council of American Numismatic Society
Married August 11, 1887, in San Rafael, Calif., Harriet Howard, daughter of John Norton Pomeroy (B.A. Hamilton 1847, LL D. 1865) and Ann Rebecca (Carter) Pomeroy, and sister of John N Pomeroy, '87
No children. Mrs. Thompson died May 27, 1926.
Death due to heart disease. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y
Survived by no immediate relatives.
Yale Obituary
Father, the Rev. Joseph Parnsh Thompson (B.A 1838, D D Harvard 1856, LL D. New York University 1868), a Congregational minister, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, New York City, for twenty-six years; editor-in-chief of 'The Independent 1848-1862, son of Isaac and Mary Anne (Hanson) Thompson, descendant of John Thompson, who came from London to Stratford, Conn , in 1635
Mother, Elizabeth Coit (Gilman) Thompson; daughter of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman, sister of Edward W Gilman (B A 1843) and Daniel C Gilman (B A 1852), president Johns Hopkins University 1875-1901; descendant of John Gilman, of Exeter, N H , who came from Norfolk, England, in 1638.
Yale relatives include: John H. Thompson (M D 1845) (na^brother); and Arthur C Gilman, ex-76 (cousin) Hopkins Grammar School and Polytechmcum, Carlsruhe, Germany. Biology course, corresponding secretary of Yale Society of Natural History, member Delta Psi. M D. Columbia 1881; during his course there spent a year (1879-1880) at the University of Berlin and at King's College Hospital, London, interne at New York Hospital 1881-87, from 1887 to 1898 connected with New York University Medical College (professor of physiology 1887-1895, matena medica 1895-97, and practice of medicine 1897-98), also professor of physiology at Woman's Medical College 1887-1895; on the establishment of Cornell University Medical College in New York City in 1898, became professor of medicine there and continued in that position until his retirement in 1915 as professor emeritus; had since devoted himself to private practice and to the study of occupational diseases; in 1918 organized the New York Clinic for the Functional Re-education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians, the nucleus of the present Reconstruction Hospital, and served as consulting physician until the time of his death; was also president 1918- 1925, member of board of directors and of its executive committee 1918-1927, and after his resignation from the board in July, 1927, honorary vice-president, m 1921 consolidated the 'old Demilt Dispensary and the Park Hospital with the New York Clinic and organized the Reconstruction Hospital, in 1924 became chairman of Industrial Hygiene Division of New York State Labor Department, visiting physician to New York Hospital 1887-1895, Presbyterian Hospital 1887-1912, and Bellevue Hospital 1896-1915, appointed consulting physician to Bellevue Hospital 1916; consulting physician to Nassau Hospital, Mineola, L I (medical service), 1898-1921, Woman's Hospital, New York, 1907-1927, St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lawrence Hospital, had also been consulting physician to Standard Oil Company of New Jersey since 1920, during the World War was a consultant in industrial hygiene for the Public Health Service and also served as member of Council of National Defense, trustee of New York Academy of Medicine for seventeen years, serving as its vice-president 1904-07, and had made special researches in connection with its Public Health Relations Committee; member New York Botanical Garden since its organization in 1896 and president of the board for ten years; vice-president Lenox (Mass.) Garden Club 1921—27; author: 'Training Schools for Nurses (1883), Practical Dietetics, with Special Reference to Diet m Disease (1895, second edition 1902; third edition 1905), A Textbook of Practical Medicine (190x3), and The Occupational Diseases (1914); had contributed numerous articles to medical journals and in 1897 was coeditor of American System of Medicine; contributed to Wood's Reference Handbook on the Medical Sciences and Occupational Diseases and Neurosis (1915), to Loose Leaf System of Medicine and Musser and Kelly's Practical Treatment (1917), and to Nelson's Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1919); member Association of American Physicians, American Medical Association, New York State and County Medical associations, New York Clinical Society, New York Practitioners' Medical and Surgical Society, New Hampshire State Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Associations of Alumni of Presbyterian, New York, and Bellevue hospitals and College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Council of American Numismatic Society
Married August 11, 1887, in San Rafael, Calif., Harriet Howard, daughter of John Norton Pomeroy (B.A. Hamilton 1847, LL D. 1865) and Ann Rebecca (Carter) Pomeroy, and sister of John N Pomeroy, '87
No children. Mrs. Thompson died May 27, 1926.
Death due to heart disease. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y
Survived by no immediate relatives.
Yale Obituary
Mother, Elizabeth Coit (Gilman) Thompson; daughter of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman, sister of Edward W Gilman (B A 1843) and Daniel C Gilman (B A 1852), president Johns Hopkins University 1875-1901; descendant of John Gilman, of Exeter, N H , who came from Norfolk, England, in 1638.
Yale relatives include: John H. Thompson (M D 1845) (na^brother); and Arthur C Gilman, ex-76 (cousin) Hopkins Grammar School and Polytechmcum, Carlsruhe, Germany. Biology course, corresponding secretary of Yale Society of Natural History, member Delta Psi. M D. Columbia 1881; during his course there spent a year (1879-1880) at the University of Berlin and at King's College Hospital, London, interne at New York Hospital 1881-87, from 1887 to 1898 connected with New York University Medical College (professor of physiology 1887-1895, matena medica 1895-97, and practice of medicine 1897-98), also professor of physiology at Woman's Medical College 1887-1895; on the establishment of Cornell University Medical College in New York City in 1898, became professor of medicine there and continued in that position until his retirement in 1915 as professor emeritus; had since devoted himself to private practice and to the study of occupational diseases; in 1918 organized the New York Clinic for the Functional Re-education of Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, and Civilians, the nucleus of the present Reconstruction Hospital, and served as consulting physician until the time of his death; was also president 1918- 1925, member of board of directors and of its executive committee 1918-1927, and after his resignation from the board in July, 1927, honorary vice-president, m 1921 consolidated the 'old Demilt Dispensary and the Park Hospital with the New York Clinic and organized the Reconstruction Hospital, in 1924 became chairman of Industrial Hygiene Division of New York State Labor Department, visiting physician to New York Hospital 1887-1895, Presbyterian Hospital 1887-1912, and Bellevue Hospital 1896-1915, appointed consulting physician to Bellevue Hospital 1916; consulting physician to Nassau Hospital, Mineola, L I (medical service), 1898-1921, Woman's Hospital, New York, 1907-1927, St Bartholomew's Hospital, and Lawrence Hospital, had also been consulting physician to Standard Oil Company of New Jersey since 1920, during the World War was a consultant in industrial hygiene for the Public Health Service and also served as member of Council of National Defense, trustee of New York Academy of Medicine for seventeen years, serving as its vice-president 1904-07, and had made special researches in connection with its Public Health Relations Committee; member New York Botanical Garden since its organization in 1896 and president of the board for ten years; vice-president Lenox (Mass.) Garden Club 1921—27; author: 'Training Schools for Nurses (1883), Practical Dietetics, with Special Reference to Diet m Disease (1895, second edition 1902; third edition 1905), A Textbook of Practical Medicine (190x3), and The Occupational Diseases (1914); had contributed numerous articles to medical journals and in 1897 was coeditor of American System of Medicine; contributed to Wood's Reference Handbook on the Medical Sciences and Occupational Diseases and Neurosis (1915), to Loose Leaf System of Medicine and Musser and Kelly's Practical Treatment (1917), and to Nelson's Loose Leaf Encyclopedia (1919); member Association of American Physicians, American Medical Association, New York State and County Medical associations, New York Clinical Society, New York Practitioners' Medical and Surgical Society, New Hampshire State Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Associations of Alumni of Presbyterian, New York, and Bellevue hospitals and College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Council of American Numismatic Society
Married August 11, 1887, in San Rafael, Calif., Harriet Howard, daughter of John Norton Pomeroy (B.A. Hamilton 1847, LL D. 1865) and Ann Rebecca (Carter) Pomeroy, and sister of John N Pomeroy, '87
No children. Mrs. Thompson died May 27, 1926.
Death due to heart disease. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y
Survived by no immediate relatives.
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