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THOMPSON, FENWICK WILLIAMS (1859-1930)

THOMPSON, FENWICK WILLIAMS, Presbyterian-United Church minister, Loggieville, 1918-29; b. Merigomish, Pictou Co., N.S., 21 May 1859, s/o John Thompson and Elizabeth Murray; unmarried; d. New Glasgow, N.S., 18 Oct 1930.

After graduating from Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University (BA 1891), Fenwick W. Thompson was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax and did postgraduate study at the University of Edinburgh. Ordained in 1893, he was a missionary in Labrador for two years and then had charges at Upper Musquodoboit and Bridgewater, N.S. Around 1912, he took a church in Saint John, and he came to Loggieville from there in 1918. In 1924 he was president of the Miramichi Presbyterian Ministers' Association, which came into being in connection with the impending church union. After union he continued at Loggieville as the United Church minister. In 1929 he retired in New Glasgow, N.S., in declining health.

The Halifax Chronicle stated that Thompson was a man of "a quiet dignity and great strength of character," and an obituary published in the Union Advocate observed that he had a "splendid sense of humor" and was "exceedingly bright and entertaining in all social gatherings." He was seventy-one years old at the time of his death.

Sources

[b/d] official death records / Advocate 9 May 1918, 12 Nov 1930; Halifax Chronicle 20 Oct 1930; Leader 1 Feb 1924; Walkington


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