Memory and Legacy
The city of Thomson in McDuffie County, Georgia was named for him. Andrew Carnegie was a great admirer and named his main company the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Company; he also named the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania after him.
Thomson married late and had no children, but did adopt a daughter. His fortune had shrunk by 3/4 to $1.3 million at his death; most of it was left to charity, including a fund to help orphans whose fathers may have been killed in the course of their railroad duties.
Thomson was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1975.
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