page_title: Mat Roy Thompson
section_title: Controversial personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mat Roy Thompson / Controversial personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of a young Bessie Penniman in 1892, not long before she transferred to Cornell University where she would meet her future husband, Albert Johnson. Bessie is dressed in the fashionable clothes befitting a woman of great social standing and consequence.
context_page_description: Mat Roy Thompson, known also as Matt Roy Thompson, Matthew R. Thompson, Mathew R. Thompson, M. Roy Thompson, Roy Thompson, and Leroy Thompson, was a civil engineer and architect who worked on a great variety of construction and development projects across the United States, most notably on Scotty's Castle, the Death Valley mansion of eccentric millionaire Albert Mussey Johnson.
caption: Portrait of a young Bessie Penniman in 1892, during her courtship with Thompson at Stanford.
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