CLASS OF 1879
Dr. William Seward Thompson died at his home at Standish, Maine, October 1, 1918, of acute indigestion with angina pectoris.
The son of Melville C. and Caroline L. (Stevens) Thompson, he was born at Kennebunk, Maine, October 15, 1854. He fitted for college at Biddeford High School He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
Immediately after graduation he began the study of medicine with Dr. J. E. L. Kimball of Saco, attending also the Portland School for Medical Instruction and attending lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth. He received his medical degree from Dartmouth in November, 1881, with the class of 1882, and soon after began practice at Standish, where he acquired a large country practice, and devoted himself faithfully to his patients.
For many years he served on the school board of the town, was a member of the Republican county committee, and in 1897 and 1913 was a member of the lower house of the state legislature. For eleven years he was sanitary inspector for the Portland Water District, thereby guarding from pollution the waters of Sebago Lake, a water supply for the city of Portland and surrounding towns. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order, and an attendant at the Congregational church.
June 23, 1883, Dr. Thompson was married to Imogene, daughter of Major and Lavinia Edgecomb of Hiram, Me. She died January 28, 1903, and their only child, a daughter, died in childhood. A second marriage, October 29, 1904, was to Mary Janet, daughter of John Everett and Abby (York) Rand of Standish, who survives him, with a son and a daughter, their youngest daughter having died in March, 1918.
