The Tompkins of Ohio
- Cydnor B. Tompkins (1810–1862), Prosecuting Attorney of Morgan County, Ohio 1848–1851; delegate to the Ohio Republican Committee 1855; U.S. Representative from Ohio 1857–1861. Father of Emmett Tompkins.
- Emmett Tompkins (1853–1917), Solicitor of Athens, Ohio 1876–1877; Mayor of Athens, Ohio 1877–1879; Prosecuting Attorney of Athens County, Ohio 1879; delegate to the Ohio Republican Convention 1879 1881 1883; Ohio State Representative 1886–1890; U.S. Representative from Ohio 1901–1903. Son of Cydnor B. Tompkins.
NOTE: Emmett Tompkins was also grandson-in-law of U.S. Representative John Welch.
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“This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a “better land,” without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)