Thomas, William H. (1840-1917)

Name:: Thomas, William H. (1840-1917)
Title:: Reverend
Other Names:: Thomas, William Harrison
Born:: 03/29/1840
Birthplace:: Brooklyn, NY
Died:: 04/25/1917
Death Location:: Norwalk, CT
Residence:: Laconia, NH -- early 1860s
Brooklyn, New York --1870 late 1860s and early 1870s
Norwalk, CT-- mid 1870s through at least 1895
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Chaplain, 4th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers
Methodist Minister
Father:: Thomas, David
Mother:: Williams, Eleanor
Relations:: Great-great-granddaughter: Felicia M. Robinson (1955-; m. David Robinson; res. Amherst, NH) -- donor of 2003.27
Parents: both born in England
Sibling: George W. Thomas (c.1861-; b. NY, NY)
Spouse:: Married Sarah Jane Place (1841-1928), May 2, 1861, Brooklyn, NY
Children:: Thomas, Frank Place (c.1862-; b. N.H.; m. Ada May Scofield 1885)
Thomas, Nellie (c.1869-; b. NY)
Thomas, Mabel (c.1871-; b. NY)
Thomas, William H. (c.1873-; b. CT)
Notes:: Note that William Harrison Thomas does not appear in the Laconia 1860 census, but a different William Thomas (b. c. 1823, Vermont, married to Martha A. Thomas, b. c. 1834, Maine) does appear. The other William, and wife Martha, also appear in the Laconia 1880 census. Any connection of the two families is not known. -- NJC, 4/2006

"Military Appointments," New Hampshire Statesman, Concord, New Hampshire, October 30, 1863.