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THOMPSON, Lewis O, clergyman, born in Bergen, Norway, 13 March, 1889; died in Henry, Illinois, 16 July, 1887. He came with his parents in boyhood to Chicago, Illinois, was graduated at Beloit in 1863, and at Union theological seminary, New York city, in 1866, and after being licensed to preach, and becoming, in 1866, a professor at Northwestern university, Watertown, Wisconsin, he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, 28 January, 1869. In the spring of that year he became president of Northwestern university, and in 1875 he became pastor of a church in Peoria, Illinois, but in July, 1882, failing health forced him to resign. After 1886 he was in charge of a church at Henry, Illinois, till his death by drowning. He published "The Presidents and their Administrations" (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1873); "Nothing Lost" (New York, 1876) ; "The Prayer-Meeting and its improvement" (Chicago, 1878) ; "How to conduct Prayer-Meetings" (Boston, 1879); and "Nineteen Christian Centuries in Outline" (Chicago, 1882); and left several uncompleted works.
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