John Hanson Thomas III
John Hanson Thomas III was born around 1841 in Baltimore, Maryland, to John Hanson Thomas and Annie Campbell Gordon. His father was a bank president who owned $100,000 of real estate and $300,000 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Baltimore, and he attended the University of Maryland’s preparatory department in the late 1850s. He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He returned to Baltimore after the war, and he earned a living as a merchant. He married Mary Howard Beirne on October 16, 1866. He died sometime after 1870.
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| (5523) | Thomas, John Hanson III | 1841 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 11
- (11886) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 9 October 1862
- (11887) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 28 February 1863
- (11888) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 13 September 1863
- (11889) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 10 October 1863
- (11890) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 12 July 1864
- (11891) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Annie C. Thomas, 20 July 1864
- (11892) [associated with] ~ Samuel Ross to Annie C. Thomas, 27 September 1864
- (11893) [associated with] ~ D. H. Kied to Annie C. Thomas, 29 September 1864
- (11894) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Aunt, 9 October 1864
- (11895) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Nannie G. Thomas, 14 November 1864
- (13694) [writer] ~ John H. Thomas III to Ann E. Gordon, 27 August 1864
People - Records: 4
Places - Records: 1
- (180) [birth] ~ Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Alabama County Marriage Records, 1805-1967, available from Ancestry.com; The Baltimore (MD) Sun, 19 October 1866
