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William Tappan Thompson
Writer, Author
1812 – 1882
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Who was William Tappan Thompson?
ĦWilliam Tappan Thompson was an American humorist and writer.
Born in Ravenna, Ohio, his best-known creation was the fictional character, Major Joseph Jones. Upon moving to Savannah, Georgia, in the 1850s, he co-founded the Savannah Morning News.
One of his most famous works is Major Jones's Courtship, a novel in epistolar form.
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