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CHARLES DEDERER THOMPSON
Originally published in 1900 |
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CHARLES DEDERER THOMPSON, of Jersey City, was born in Newton.
Sussex County, N. J., June 28, 1853, his parents being David and
Susanna (Dederer) Thompson. He is descended in the sixth generation
frcin Thomas Thompson, a Scotchman, who settled at Elizabethtown, N. J., in 1661. His grandparents, Stephen and Susanna (Harris) Thompson,
lived on the old homestead in Morris County which was purchased in 1740.
David Thompson, his father, was born at Mendham, Morris County, N.
J., October 26, 1808, and was graduated from Princeton College in 1825.
For four years thereafter he was a teacher in the academy at Mendham.
He read law with Jacob W. Miller, of Morristown, and Judge Thomas C.
Ryerson, of Newton, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney
in November, 1833, and as a counselor in November, 1836. In
November, 1838, he was appointed Surrogate of Sussex County by Governor
Pennington and filled that office for five years. He continued in the
practice of his profession until shortly before his death, which occurred
at Newton, N. J., November 8, 1888. He was elected a Director of the
Sussex Bank in Newton in 1844, served that institution for many years as
its Vice-President. and in 1865 was elected President, which position he
held until his death. He married Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Susanna
Dederer, and their children were Alexander, deceased; Juliana, deceased,
wife of David R. Hull, of Newton; Susanna Dederer Thompson, of Newton;
William Armstrong Thompson, a civil engineer; and Charles Dederer
Thompson, the subject of this sketch. Charles D. Thompson was graduated from Princeton College in 1874 and from the Columbia College Law School with the degree of LL.B., attending that institution when it was under the direction of the noted Dr. Timothy W. Dwight. He read law with his father in Newton and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1877, and as a counselor in June, 1880. He practiced his profession at Newton from June, 1877, until January, 1886, when he removed to Jersey City and formed a partnership with Colonel Asa W. Dickinson under the firm name of Dickinson & Thompson. In April, 1892, John S. McMaster was admitted to the firm, which was changed to Dickinson, Thompson & McMaster and so continued until Mr. Dickinson's death in 1899. Mr. Thompson is still actively and successfully enraged in the general practice of his profession in Jersey City. He was a member of the Town Council of Montclair, N. J., where he resided, in 1894 and 1895, and in the latter year became a member of the Montclair Board of Health. In this and other capacities he has displayed marked ability, sound judgment, and great public spirit. He is an able lawyer and has gained an honorable reputation at the bar.
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