His mother was Miss Arietta Minthorne Tompkins, daughter of Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice-President of the United States at the time, who married his father, Gilbert Livingston Thompson on June 17, 1818. She died in 1837 at the age of 37.
He changed his name to Mangle Minthorne. His diary from the years 1849-1852 was in the possession of his grand-niece Miss Emma DeLong Mills of NYC back in 1955.
During the Mexican War he served as third assistant engineer aboard Commodore Matthew C. Perry's ship, the Mississippi, for which service he was granted 160 acres of bounty land, and thereafter on various merchant ships.
While he was chief engineer on the Fulton, of the New York and LeHavre Steamship Co., he married Silvie Livingston Wotton, the captain's daughter, on July 26, 1862 in the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in New York City.
He had one son, Wotton Minthorne Thompson, born in Manhattan on Sept. 6, 1863, died 1938. He never used the name Thompson.
He died suddenly at age 36 on Aug. 5, 1864 while working on the Fulton in Port Royal, Beaufort, South Carolina.
From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
He changed his name to Mangle Minthorne. His diary from the years 1849-1852 was in the possession of his grand-niece Miss Emma DeLong Mills of NYC back in 1955.
During the Mexican War he served as third assistant engineer aboard Commodore Matthew C. Perry's ship, the Mississippi, for which service he was granted 160 acres of bounty land, and thereafter on various merchant ships.
While he was chief engineer on the Fulton, of the New York and LeHavre Steamship Co., he married Silvie Livingston Wotton, the captain's daughter, on July 26, 1862 in the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in New York City.
He had one son, Wotton Minthorne Thompson, born in Manhattan on Sept. 6, 1863, died 1938. He never used the name Thompson.
He died suddenly at age 36 on Aug. 5, 1864 while working on the Fulton in Port Royal, Beaufort, South Carolina.
From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
His mother was Miss Arietta Minthorne Tompkins, daughter of Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice-President of the United States at the time, who married his father, Gilbert Livingston Thompson on June 17, 1818. She died in 1837 at the age of 37.
He changed his name to Mangle Minthorne. His diary from the years 1849-1852 was in the possession of his grand-niece Miss Emma DeLong Mills of NYC back in 1955.
During the Mexican War he served as third assistant engineer aboard Commodore Matthew C. Perry's ship, the Mississippi, for which service he was granted 160 acres of bounty land, and thereafter on various merchant ships.
While he was chief engineer on the Fulton, of the New York and LeHavre Steamship Co., he married Silvie Livingston Wotton, the captain's daughter, on July 26, 1862 in the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in New York City.
He had one son, Wotton Minthorne Thompson, born in Manhattan on Sept. 6, 1863, died 1938. He never used the name Thompson.
He died suddenly at age 36 on Aug. 5, 1864 while working on the Fulton in Port Royal, Beaufort, South Carolina.
From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
He changed his name to Mangle Minthorne. His diary from the years 1849-1852 was in the possession of his grand-niece Miss Emma DeLong Mills of NYC back in 1955.
During the Mexican War he served as third assistant engineer aboard Commodore Matthew C. Perry's ship, the Mississippi, for which service he was granted 160 acres of bounty land, and thereafter on various merchant ships.
While he was chief engineer on the Fulton, of the New York and LeHavre Steamship Co., he married Silvie Livingston Wotton, the captain's daughter, on July 26, 1862 in the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in New York City.
He had one son, Wotton Minthorne Thompson, born in Manhattan on Sept. 6, 1863, died 1938. He never used the name Thompson.
He died suddenly at age 36 on Aug. 5, 1864 while working on the Fulton in Port Royal, Beaufort, South Carolina.
From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
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