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Nourse, Semple and Thompson


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Joseph Everett Nourse (Born: April 17, 1819 - Died: October 8, 1889) Born to Col. Michael Washington Nourse and Mary Rittenhouse. Married Sarah Wright 1841. He died in Washington, DC.

Philo Mathes Semple (Born July 7, 1810 - Died: December 26, 1891) born in New Castle, PA, to Rev. Robert Semple and Annie Kirkpatrick. Married Sarah Jane Davis, July 29, 1846.

Col. Philip Burton Thompson (Born: January 8, 1821 - Died: November 28, 1908) born in Harrodsburg, KY, son of John B. Thompson and Nancy Porter Roberts. Married Martha Montgomery, November 2, 1842. He is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg Mercer County, KY.

Nourse and Semple were class of 1836 of Washington and Jefferson College; Thompson was class of 1837.

 

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Bibliography:

  • Eaton, Samuel John Mills, Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, Cincinnati, OH: Elm Street Printing Co., 1889, pp. 88, 89, 91??
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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