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William Tappan Thompson. William Tappan Thompson (August 31, 1812 – March 24, 1882). He co-founded the Savannah Morning News in the 1850s, known then as the Daily Morning News. One of his most notable works was Major Jones's Courtship, an epistolary novel. Thompson's best-known fictional character was Major Joseph Jones.
On April 23, 1863, the Savannah Morning News editor William Tappan Thompson, with assistance from William Ross Postell, a Confederate blockade runner, published an editorial championing a design featuring the battle flag on a white background he referred to later as "The White Man's Flag", a name which never caught on.
William Tappan Thompson, author of the Major Jones series of humorous stories, along with John McKinney Cooper as publisher and owner, founded the paper on January 15, 1850 as the Daily Morning News. At the end of the Civil War in 1865, John Cooper was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson allowing him to retain ownership of the paper.
William Francis Kynaston Thompson (1909–1980), British officer who fought and was captured at Arnhem. William Thompson (admiral) (1922–2018), American admiral, former chief of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation. William Thompson (Medal of Honor, 1950) (1927–1950), Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
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Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.
William Thompson was elected as the second probate clerk of the county, and later to the office of probate judge. Return to Indian Territory. In 1889 William Thompson left Texas for good, relocating with his family first to Ardmore in the Chickasaw Nation. They later moved to the new community of Marlow, where he would live and work for the ...
Portrait of Arthur Tappan from The Life of Arthur Tappan, by Lewis Tappan, New York, Hurd and Houghton, 1870. Arthur Tappan (May 22, 1786 – July 23, 1865) was an American businessman, philanthropist and abolitionist. [1] He was the brother of Ohio Senator Benjamin Tappan and abolitionist Lewis Tappan, and nephew of Harvard Divinity School ...