THOMPSON, Charles Lemuel, clergyman, born in Cooperstown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 18 August, 1889. He was graduated at Carroll college, Wisconsin, in 1858, and at McCormick theological seminary, Chicago, in 1861, after spending two years (1859-'60) in Princeton seminary. He then entered the Presbyterian ministry, and after holding pastorates in Juneau and Janesville, Wisconsin, Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and Kansas City, Missouri, was called in 1888 to the Madison avenue church in New York city. He received the degree of D. D. from Monmouth college, Illinois, in 1876, and in May, 1888, was moderator of the general assembly of his church in Philadelphia. Dr. Thompson was editor of "Our Monthly" in Cincinnati in 1870-'1, and in 1879-'82 of "The Interior" at Chicago, with which he is still connected as an editorial writer. Besides contributions in prose and verse to current literature, he has published "Times of Refreshing: a History of American Revivals" (Chicago, 1877).