Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1920-07-01
William H. Thomson.
s. Louis post-Dispatch, June % J

William Fl. Thomson, S3 years old,
vice president of the Boatman's g Bank,
died at 2:07 A. M. today at his home,
3sO5 Lindell boulevard, from the in
firmities of age. He had been i'll for
. month, and hope for his recovery
was abandoned several days ago.
He had been blind for more than a
year.
The funeral will be held at $3.50 A.
NJ. tomorrow from Trinity Episcopal
Church, 4005 Washington boulevard,
and will be conducted by the Rev.
J. Boyd Coke and the Rev. II. W.
Miner. All the members of the inn
mediate family are here except one
daughter, Miss Annie Lou Thomson,
who is in Colorado. The only son,
William Hargardine Thomson, lately
Captain in the army, now connect
ed with the Illinois Traction System,
arrived from Peoria, ILL.,, half hour
before the fathers death.
Thomson had been connected with
Boatman's Bank for So years. 1t was
the only bank for which he ever
worked. He came to it on his
twentieth birthday, in 1857, shortly
after he had removed from his early
home in Maryland to this city. He
worked up in its employ to the
position of cashier in 1870. The Office
of vice president was later added.
Probably no st. Louis banker had
more acqnaintsnces. Thomson was
striking figure, tall and of courtly
appearance with heavy white mus
tache, broadening into almost the
proportions of beard, as his dis
tinguishing feature. His necktie was
usually bright red. and he seldom
lacked flower upon his coat. He
was genial to business surroundings,
and was at home in social gatherings,
being for many years prominent
figure at the Yelled Prophets ball,
where one of his daughters, Miss
Susan Larkin Thomson, was crowned
as Queen in 1900.
1t was his custom at Christmas, to
send remembrances not only to his
close friends, but to many persons
who were hardly mere than casual
aequaintances.
Thomson was one of the leading
Episcopal laymen of st. Louis, and
was one of the founders of st. Luke's
Hospital, which was started in
rented building in 1865. He served
continuously on the board in charge
of the hospital, and was president
emeritus of the board. He was one
of the founders of Trinity Church,
and was for many years its senior
warden, and in recent years the old
est member of the congregation.
When James Moore Hickson, the
Church Of England healer, was at st.
Peters Church in March, Thomson
was taken from his home to the
church, and waited in the vestry
room for Hickson, praying audibly
for the other sufferers about him.
Later, when Post Dispatch report
er called the Thomson home by tele-
phone, to ask as to the effect of
Hickson's treatment, Thomson insist
ed on being taken to- the tele phone,
in his wheel chair, and replied that
he felt much better since having re-
ceived the laying on of hands.
The first Mrs. Thomson, to whom
he was married in 1862, was Miss
Margaret Foote Larkin,. daughter of
an early head of the Boatman's Bank.
Her family was prominent in contri-
buttons to Episcopal institutions, and
Mrs. Thompson's brother, Hills
Larkin, left most of his estate to
these institutions. The first Mrs.
Thomson died in 1868, leaving a
vino died soon afterward.
In 1872 Thomson was married to Miss
Annie Lou Hargardine, eldest daugh-
ter of William A. Hargardine OF the
Hargardine- -McKittrick Dry Goods
Co. Mrs. Thomson survives her hus-
band, with one son, Capt. William
Margarine Thompson, and six daugh-
ters. These are Mrs. Charles Cum
mings Collins OF 20 Lenox place, for
merly July Thomson; Mrs. George
w. Tracy of 415sA Mcpherson ave-
nue., formerly Virginia Thomson;
Mrs, Eugene M. Funston of $685.
Cabanne avenue, formerly Holmes
Thomson; Mrs. A. B. Coke of Wash
ington, formerly Susan Larkin Thorn
son; and Misses Annie Lou and Mary
McCreery Thomson.
The Thomson family has had it's
summer home for many years st Ar
cadia, Mo.
Coal in the Ice Regions.
Biologists have discovered immense
deposits of coal in Spitzbergen, and
II is now apparent that, In spite OF