| 词条 | Gates P. Thruston |
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| name = Gates Phillips Thruston | image = File:Gates P. Thruston.tif | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = June 11, 1835 | birth_place = Dayton, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = December 9, 1912 | death_place = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | placeofburial = Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee | resting_place_coordinates = | education = Miami University | religion = | spouse = Ida Hamilton Fanny Dorman | children = 1 son | parents = | relations = Buckner Thruston (grandfather) Charles Mynn Thruston (uncle) |allegiance= United States of America Union |branch= Union Army |serviceyears= |rank= Lieutenant Colonel Brevet Brigadier General |unit= 1st Ohio Infantry Regiment XX Corps Army of the Cumberland |battles= American Civil War
|otherwork = Lawyer, businessman, author }} Gates Phillips Thruston (June 11, 1835 – December 9, 1912) was an American lawyer and businessman. Born in Ohio, he served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and started a legal practise in Nashville, Tennessee in the postbellum era. He served as the president of the State Insurance Company. He also was an amateur archeologist, and the author of several books about Native American mounds and artifacts. His collection is held at the Tennessee State Museum. Early lifeGates P. Thruston was born on June 11, 1835, in Dayton, Ohio.[1][2] His paternal grandfather, Buckner Thruston, was a United States Senator.[1] Thurston graduated as a valectorian with a Doctor of Humane Letters in Archeology and Literature from Miami University in 1855.[1] He received a law degree from the Cincinnati Law School.[1] He volunteered for the American Civil War and joined the Union Army, being commissioned as Captain in the 1st Ohio Infantry Regiment.[1] He took part in the battles of Shiloh and Stones River, in the later as ordnance officer on the staff of the XX Corps under Maj.Gen. Alexander M. McCook, his former regimental commander. Afterwards he became and aide and adjutant to Maj.Gen. William S. Rosecrans when he commanded the Army of the Cumberland, though eventually returning to the XX Corps as its Chief of Staff. Thruston fought in the Battle of Chickamauga and continued his staff work under Maj.Gen. George H. Thomas during the Atlanta Campaign. He eventually was promoted up to Lieutenant Colonel and served as Judge-Advocate General of the Army of the Cumberland; afterwards being brevetted Brigadier General for his services during the war.[1] CareerAfter the war, Thruston became a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] He retired from legal practise in 1878.[1] Two years later, in 1880, he was appointed as the president of the State Insurance Company.[1] Thruston served as the vice president of the Tennessee Historical Society.[1] An amateur archaeologist, Thruston dug at Noel Farm in Nashville, where he found Native American artifacts,[3] and he started a collection.[13] He also dug at Pompei in Italy.[3] In 1890, he published his first book privately.[3] Entitled The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, it was reviewed in American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association.[4] When it was republished for commercial use in 1897,[3] it was reviewed in Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5] Thurston went on to write several other books. Additionally, Thruston was a collector of medals and coins for which he won an award at the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition.[1] He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1] Thruston was a commissioner of the Watkins Institute.[1] He was also the president of the Nashville Art Association.[1] Additionally, he served on the board of trustees of the University of Nashville.[1] Personal life, death and legacyThruston was married twice. He married his first wife, Ida Hamilton, the daughter of James M. Hamilton, in December 1865.[1] In 1894, he married Fanny Dorman.[1] He had a son, Gates Thruston Jr., who predeceased him.[2] Thruston died on December 9, 1912, in Nashville, Tennessee.[6] His funeral was conducted by a Presbyterian minister; pall-bearers included James Hampton Kirkland and Robert Ewing, and he was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery.[7] His collection of Native American artifacts, which he had donated to Vanderbilt University in 1907, has been exhibited at the Tennessee State Museum since 1986.[8] A book about the collection authored by Stephen D. Cox, the curator of cultural history at the museum, was published in 1985.[9] Works
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References{{Commons category|Gates P. Thruston}}1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 {{cite book|last1=Allison|first1=John|title=Notable Men of Tennessee: Personal and Genealogical, with portraits|date=1905|publisher=Southern historical Association|location=Atlanta, Georgia|pages=99–101|oclc=2561350|url=https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_Fag-AAAAYAAJ#page/n95/mode/2up|via=Internet Archive}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|title=Gen. Gates P. Thruston Dead|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/168548678/?terms=%22Gates%2BP.%2BThruston%22|accessdate=September 26, 2016|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=December 10, 1912|page=10|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal|last1=Cooper|first1=Steven R.|title=Clues to the Past|journal=Central States Archaeological Journal|date=April 2010|volume=57|issue=2|pages=106–107|jstor=43143325|registration=yes}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Fletcher|first1=Robert|title=Reviewed Work: The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of Aboriginal Society in the Scale of Civilization Represented by Them. A Series of Historical and Ethnological Studies by Gates P. Thruston|journal=American Anthropologist|date=January 1891|volume=4|issue=1|pages=83–86|jstor=658226|registration=yes|doi=10.1525/aa.1891.4.1.02a00080}} 5. ^{{cite journal|last1=Brinton|first1=D. G.|title=Reviewed Work: The Antiquities of Tennesse and the Adjacent States by Yates P. Thruston|journal=Science|date=April 15, 1898|volume=7|issue=172|page=539|jstor=1624889|registration=yes|doi=10.1126/science.7.172.539}} 6. ^{{cite news|title=Gen. Gates T. Thruston Dies At Nashville|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/119261944/?terms=%22Gates%2BP.%2BThruston%22|accessdate=September 26, 2016|work=The Courier-Journal|location=Louisville, Kentucky|date=December 9, 1912|page=1|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 7. ^{{cite news|title=Funeral of Gen. Gates P. Thruston To Be Held Today. Body of Distinguished Soldier and Citizen Will Sleep in Mt. Olivet|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/119017069/?terms=%22Gates%2BP.%2BThruston%22|accessdate=September 26, 2016|work=The Tennesean|date=December 10, 1912|page=12|via=Newspapers.com|registration=yes}} 8. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Kevin E.|title=Gates P. Thruston Collection of Vanderbilt University|url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1382|website=The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture|publisher=University of Tennessee Press & Tennessee Historical Society|accessdate=September 26, 2016|date=December 25, 2009}} 9. ^{{cite journal|title=Reviewed Work: Art and Artisans of Prehistoric Middle Tennessee by Gates P. Thruston|journal=Central States Archaeological Journal|date=January 1987|volume=34|issue=1|page=50|jstor=43140793|registration=yes}} External links
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