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James Oren Thompson

Short Name: James Oren Thompson
Full Name: Thompson, James Oren, 1834-1917
Birth Year: 1834
Death Year: 1917

Born June 9, 1834 in Waldo, ME. He was a minister before joining the army and fighting in the Civil War. After the war he joined the Methodist Episcopal Maine Conference in 1866. He transferred to the Providence, RI conference and retired in 1886. He moved to Keyser, WV and edited The Mountain Echo. He then moved to Charleston, WV and served as secretary of the Agriculture. In 1905 he moved to St. Petersburg, FL where he was the minister at the First Ave. Methodist Church. He died Sept. 28, 1917.

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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by James Oren Thompson (6)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Cristo está buscando obreros hoyJohn O. Thompson 1782-1813 (Author)Spanish10
Far and near the fields are teemingJ. O. Thompson (Author)English214
Gelblich weiß die Felder glänzenJames Oren Thompson (Author)German1
Nŏlbun dŭre igŭn gokshik (Far and near the fields are teeming)James Oren Thompson (Author)Korean1
Perto e longe, ó vede os camposJames Oren Thompson (Author)Portuguese1
Pola wkolo już dojrzalyJames Oren Thompson (Author)Polish1
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