Daniel Pierce Thompson

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Daniel Pierce Thompson

Daniel Pierce Thompson (born October 1, 1795 in Charlestown , Massachusetts , † June 6, 1868 in Montpelier , Vermont ) was an American lawyer and writer who was Secretary of State of Vermont from 1853 to 1855 . He was also one of the most important novelists for American literature in New England before Nathaniel Hawthorne .

Life

Daniel P. Thompson was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He moved to Vermont with his family in 1800. Thompson grew up in Berlin , Vermont and graduated from Middlebury College in 1820. He then studied law and opened a legal practice in Montpelier, Vermont.

Thompson worked from 1825 to 1830 for the Probate Court of Washington County . He was active in the Liberty Party and the abolitionism movement. From 1849 to 1856 he ran the Green Mountain Freeman , an anti-slavery newspaper.

From 1837 to 1842 he was a judge in the Washington County's Probate Court and compiled the Laws of Vermont in 1835 . In 1838 he founded the Vermont Historical Society.

From 1844 to 1846 he worked as the clerk of Washington County. He held the office of Vermont Secretary of State from 1853 to 1855.

When the Republican Party was founded in 1854, he joined it.

Daniel P. Thompson married Eunice Robinson in 1831. The couple had five children. One of her descendants was United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas .

Thompson died in Montpelier on June 6, 1868. His grave is in the Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier.

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Influenced by James Fenimore Cooper and Walter Scott , he wrote historical adventure novels, short stories, romantic novels and historical treatises, much of his work reflecting life in Vermont. His most famous book, The Green Mointain Boys (1839), has been reprinted more than 50 times.

He was New England's most famous novelist in the 1840s and 1850s. His work was responsible for the public awareness and popularity of the story of Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys . He had the ability to tell adventure novels at high speed and high tension, this made his novels popular well into the twentieth century. Many of his books are still in print today.

In 1835 his book May Martin appeared; Or The Money Diggers: A Green Mountain Tale . This book established Thompson's popularity with its success, it is about the time of the Revolutionary Wars and the establishment of the Vermont Republic .

Some of his writings satirize the anti-Asonic movement.

Novels
  • May Martin; Or The Money Diggers: A Green Mountain Tale (1835)
  • The Adventures of Timothy Peacock (1835),
  • The Green Mountain Boys (1840),
  • Locke Amsden, or the Schoolmaster (1845),
  • The Shaker Lovers, and Other Tales (1848),
  • Lucy Hosmer, or the Guardian and the Ghost (1849),
  • The Rangers, or the Tory's Daughter (1850)
  • The Tales of the Green Mountains (1852)
  • Gaut Gurley, a Tale of the Umbagog (1857);
  • The Doomed Chief, or King Philip (1860);
  • Centeola (1864).
additional
  • History of the Town of Montpelier (1859)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secretaries of State, located on the Vermont government homepage , accessed February 21, 2015.
  2. Jump up ↑ American Unitarian Association: The Unitarian Register: A Forgotten Storyteller , Issue 108, 1929, p. 783
  3. ↑ Kevin J. Hayes: Jefferson in His Own Time , 2012, 133
  4. ^ Middlebury College: Catalog of Officers and Students of Middlebury College , 1917, p. 56
  5. ^ William Adams: Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889 , 1889, 79
  6. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: Washington County , 1882, 312
  7. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton: The World's Great Masterpieces , Issue 19, 1901, Page 10581
  8. ^ The Laws of Vermont , 1835
  9. ^ Vermont Historical Society: Vermont History News , Issues 41-47, 1990, p. 108
  10. ^ Abby Maria Hemenway: The History of the Town of Montpelier, Including that of the Town of East Montpelier , 1882, p. 274
  11. ^ Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft: American Authors, 1600-1900, A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature , 1938, 742
  12. Jump up ↑ Vermont Historical Society: A Guide to the Daniel P. Thompson Manuscripts , ca.1841-1866 , 1995, p. 2
  13. ^ Edwin Palmer Hoyt, William O. Douglas: A Biography , 1979, p. 3
  14. ^ Marcus Davis Gilman: The Bibliography of Vermont , 1897, 275
  15. ↑ Charles T. Morrisey: Daniel P. Thompson and the Early History of Vermont. The New-England Galaxy, Issue 11-12, 1969, p. 15
  16. ↑ Alexander Cowie: The American Novel , 1951, p. 270
personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Daniel Pierce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thompson, Daniel P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, writer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlestown , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1868
Place of death Montpelier , Vermont