William Thomas Manning

William Thomas Manning 1866-1949, American Episcopal bishop of New York, b. England, received his collegiate and theological training at the Univ. of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Ordained a priest (1891), he served parishes in California, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee and taught dogmatic theology at the Univ. of the South before becoming rector of Trinity parish, New York City, in 1908. Manning was bishop of New York from 1921 until his retirement in 1946.

Thomas, William Holland (1805–1893) the only white man to serve as chief of the North Carolina Cherokees, businessman, and Confederate army officer. Born in Haywood County, North Carolina, William Holland Thomas learned the customs and language of the local Cherokees as a boy. After successfully defending them in Washington from removal in 1836, he was named chief of the loosely organized tribe in 1839, a post he held for twenty-eight years. When the Civil War broke out he supported the Confederacy, and though having no military experience, he joined the army and raised and led a force of Indians and mountaineers called Thomas's Legion. They spent most of the war guarding railroad passes in eastern Tennessee, but Thomas still got court-martialed twice for disobeying orders. Once the charges were dropped and once Jefferson Davis pardoned Thomas before the trial began, so he managed to surrender with honor in May 1865. The war broke him, however, and he spent most of the rest of his life in mental hospitals.

Lawson, Thomas W[illiam] (1857–1925), multimillionaire Boston stockbroker, because of a grudge wrote muckraking articles on Frenzied Finance for Everybody's (1904–5) and other books on the subject, including Friday, the Thirteenth (1907), a novel. His clients turned on him and began the downfall that left him a poor man.