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Maurice Thompson

THOMPSON, Maurice, author, born in Fairfield, Indiana, 9 September, 1844. His parents, who were southerners, removed to Kentucky, and thence to the hill-region of northern Georgia. The son was educated by private tutors, and early became interested in the study of out-door life. He served through the civil war in the Confederate army, and at its close went to Indiana, became a civil engineer on a railway survey, and in due season rose to be chief engineer. He then studied law, and opened an office at Crawfordsville. He was elected in 1879 to the legislature, and appointed in 1885 state geologist of Indiana and chief of the department of natural history. He has written much for periodicals, and has published in book-form "Hoosier Mosaics" (New York, 1875); " The Witchery of Archery" (1878); "A Tallahassee Girl " (Boston, 1882); "His Second Campaign" (1882); "Songs of Fair Weather" (1883)" "At Love's Extremes" (1885); "Byways and Bird Notes" (1885); "The Boys' Book of Sports" (1886); "A Banker of Bankersville" (1886); "Sylvan Secrets" (1887); "Tile Story of Louisiana," in the "Commonwealth Series" (1888); and "A Fortnight of Folly" (New York, 1888).

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