Thompson, Dauphin Adolphus

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Dauphin Adolphus Thompson
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Family
    Roswell Thompson (father), William Thompson (brother)

    Dauphin Osgood Thompson (Villard, 1910)

    Scholarship
    Dauphin Osgood Thompson, brother of William and also a neighbor of the Browns at North Elba, was born April 17, 1838, and was killed in the engine house on October 18, 1859. He was the brother of William Thompson, who also fell, and of Henry Thompson, Their sister Isabella married Watson Brown. Dauphin Thompson was a handsome, inexperienced, country boy, “more like a girl than a warrior,” and “diffident and quiet.”
    Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 683.
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