Joseph Parrish Thompson
1819–79
American clergyman. Graduated from Yale in 1838; studied for the ministry at Andover and New Haven. Ordained, 1840. Congregational clergyman in New York City, 1845–71. Anti-slavery campaigner. Studied Egyptology. Lived in Germany after his retirement.
Source
DAB
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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