THOMPSON, Alexander Ramsay, soldier, born in 1794; died in Manatee county, Florida, 25 December, 1837. His father was Alexander Thompson, who served in the artillery during the Revolutionary war, was retained as captain in the peace establishment, and attached in 1794 to the artillery and engineer corps, and after his discharge in 1802 till his death, 28 September, 1809, was military store-keeper at West Point. The son was graduated at the United States military academy in 1812, and during the war with Great Britain took part in General James Wilkinson's expedition down the St. Lawrence and in the de-fence of Plattsburg and other operations on Lake Champlain, being promoted captain of infantry on 1 May, 1814. He was retained on the reduction of the army, promoted major on 4 April, 1832, served w in the Black Hawk expedition, became lieutenant-colonel on 6 September, 1837, and in the war with the Seminole Indians was killed at the battle of Okeechobee while leading his regiment in a desperate charge.--His nephew, Alexander Ramsay, clergyman, born in New York city, 16 October, 1822, was graduated at the University of the city of New York in 1842, and at Princeton theological seminary in 1845, and was ordained, and after holding various charges became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Stapleton, Staten island, in 1851-'9, the Reformed Dutch church, 21st street, New York city, in 1862-'73, first as colleague of the Reverend George W. Bethune, then as his successor, and the North Reformed Dutch church in Brooklyn, New York, from the latter date to 1884. In 1885 he became acting pastor of Bethany chapel in Brooklyn. He was chaplain of the New England hospital in 1863-'5 and of the Roosevelt hospital in New York from 1873 till 1884. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by the University of the city of New York in 1865, which made him a member of its council in 1872. Among various sermons he published "Tribute to the Memory of the Reverend George W. Bethune"; " Casting down Imaginations," a sermon (1874) ; "Christian Patriotism : the Points of Similarity between the Struggle for Independence in America and that of our Holland Ancestors," in "Centennial Discourses" (1876). He also assisted in compiling "Hymns of the Church" (New York, 1869), and "Hymns of Prayer and Praise " (1874).