When Arthur Martin Thompson was born on 28 April 1874, in Denver, Colorado, United States, his father, Alphonso George Thompson, was 34 and his mother, Catherine R Pauth, was 31. He married Emma Elizabeth Wooley on 1 March 1902, in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He registered for military service in 1899. He died on 3 September 1942, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Morton, Lewis, Washington, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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