J. T. Thompson
J. T. Thompson, principal of the Steubenville Business College, of Steubenville, O., has been a resident of this city for fourteen years. He was born at Marion, Williamson County, Illinois, where he was reared and where members of his family still reside.
Professor Thompson attended the public schools and had three years of academic and high school training at Marion, and later attended the Northern Illinois Normal and Dixon Business College at Dixon, Ill., for three years, being graduated in 1896 in the Post-Graduate Commercial Course, Pen, Art and Oratory. When he came to Steubenville in August of that year he found it necessary to build up his college from the very bottom, having no appliances, and but one student asking for instruction.
It reflects great credit on Mr. Thompson that within a very short time he had provided ample accommodations for all who wish to profit through his instruction, and that now he has a finely equipped institution with every modern convenience, stock and appliances required in a first-class business college; has four thoroughly competent and experienced instructors and an annual enrollment of over two hundred students. His success is well deserved. His graduates find no difficulty in securing and satisfactorily filling positions of trust and responsibility, and they are the best advertisements Professor Thompson could have. He has devoted the best part of his life to the building up of this enterprise, and Steubeuville takes great pride in it and gives it liberal support.
Mr. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was married last March to Miss Luella S. Hinkle, the only daughter of Mr. C. V. Hinkle, of Toronto, O. He is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen and the Red Men, and holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce and Y. M. C. A. For years he has been identified with the National Commercial Teachers' Federation and Private School Managers' Association of the United States.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910