History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 617.[Scott
County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

PROF. D. THOMAS, Georgetown, Professor of languages in Georgetown College;
was born Sept. 20, 1817 in Winthrop, Maine.  The family is of English
origin; his grandfather was a clergyman in Maine, and his father, William
Thomas, was a mechanic in comfortable circumstances.  He enjoyed excellent
educational advantages, taking his preparatory course for college at Kents
Hill Seminary, and at Waterville, Maine; in his seventeenth year he
entered Colby University, at Waterville, graduating in 1838 with the degree
of A. B.  Among the teachers of that time were Prof. Patterson and Prof.
Keeley (both since deceased) and prof. Loomis, now of Lewisburg University,
Pennsylvania; and one of his classmates was the notorious Gen. Benjamin
Butler.  In 1839 he was appointed tutor in Colby College, and a year after
was called to the position he now occupies, that of Senior Professor of
Ancient Languages and Literature at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky.,
his specialty being ancient languages, but he also teaches the German
classes.  In 1876 he received from Colby University the honorary degree
of LL.D., having previously received from his Alma Mater the degree of A.M.
He united with the Baptist Church at the age of fourteen; is an active and
consistent member and is an earnest, indefatigable worker in the Sabbath
schools and foreign mission interests of his church; is liberal in his
donations to the church, prompt and exact in business relations; is genial
and hospitable and entertains his friends elegantly.  He has long been
chairman of the Baptist Sabbath school Board for Kentucky.  Prof. Thomas
is also a farmer, and devotes his leisure time with great success to his
agricultural interest.  He was married in 1840 to Mrs. Sarah Waller
Smith (nee Burch), sister to the wife of the late John C. Breckinridge.
Of their four children two are now living.

Thomas Patterson Keeley Loomis Butler Smith Burch Breckinridge
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