| 词条 | Edward Tompkins |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Edward Tompkins | honorific_suffix = | image = Edward Tompkins.tif | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1815|05|08}}[1] | birth_place = Paris, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1872|11|14|1815|05|08}} | death_place = Oakland, California[2] | death_cause = | body_discovered = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = {{plainlist|Union College (1831)[2]
}} | occupation = | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = Endowing a chair at the University of California | net_worth = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = | opponents = | boards = | religion = | denomination = | criminal_charge = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = Mary Cook (1837–?); Sarah Haight (1861–){{Sfn|Wood|1883|pp=682–683}} | children = Elizabeth Knight Tompkins[4] | parents = Gilbert Tompkins and Dorothy Stanton[1] | relatives = | awards = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = | box_width = }} Edward Tompkins (1815–1872) was an American lawyer. He is best known for endowing a chair at the University of California where he had been elected to the board of regents.{{efn|group=lower-alpha|The term "honorary regent" refers to the fact Tompkins was elected to the board rather than appointed by the governor, not to his function as a regent.[5]}} BackgroundTompkins was born in 1815 in rural Paris Hill, New York. Tompkins enrolled in Union College in 1831 and joined Sigma Phi. Tompkins graduated, earned a law degree at Hamilton College, and practiced law in Binghamton, New York as a partner to Daniel S. Dickinson.{{Sfn|Wood|1883|pp=682–683}} Tompkins married a Quaker woman, Mary Cook, from Bridgeport, Connecticut.[1] She died several years later. Tompkins moved to San Francisco, California in 1859 where he continued as a lawyer.{{Sfn|Wood|1883|pp=682–683}} In 1861 Tompkins married a sister of Henry Huntly Haight named Sarah, a woman 20 years Tompkins's junior.[6] They established residence on the shores of Lake Merritt in Oakland.{{Sfn|Wood|1883|pp=682–683}} Tompkins was elected in 1869 to represent Alameda County in the California State Senate.{{Sfn|Wood|1883|p=679}}[7][8] In 1870 Tompkins, a self-described Constitutional Democrat, spoke in favor of ratification of the 15th Amendment and voted against a California Senate resolution opposing California's proposed ratification.[9] {{Quote box|class = |title = |quote = It is a praiseworthy forethought on the part of one of the Regents which has led him to provide among us for the study of Chinese and Japanese. His presence here cannot restrain me from rendering a public tribute of gratitude for this wise and timely munificence. Let us hope that his generous purposes will, ere long, be realized. |source = Daniel Coit Gilman[10] |align = right |width = 180px |border = |fontsize = |bgcolor = |style = |title_bg = |title_fnt = |tstyle = |qalign = center |qstyle = |quoted = yes |salign = |sstyle = }} As a state senator Tompkins argued for the creation of the University of California as recommended by the previous governor, Frederick Low. The charter creating the university (then only an agricultural school) passed on March 23, 1868 and Tompkins was elected to a four-year term on the Board of Regents of the University of California later that same year.[11][12][13] Upon Tompkins's death in 1872, his position on the board of regents was filled by his brother-in-law, former Governor Haight.[14] Some of Tompkins's letters are archived with papers of his relatives at Bancroft Library.[15] Louis Agassiz ChairTompkins endowed the school's chair of Oriental Languages and Literature named for Louis Agassiz on September 18, 1872 only months before Tompkins died.[12][16] His initial gift of {{convert|47|acre|km2}}, which sold for {{US$|50000|1872|link=yes}}, was evaluated on June 30, 2008 at more than {{US$|5700000}}.[3][17][18] Tompkins's interest in Oriental studies grew out of his anticipation of expanded trans-Pacific commerce. Tompkins said that he felt "deeply the humiliation" of seeing Asian students go to the East Coast "in search of that intellectual hospitality that we are not yet enlightened enough to extend to them."[19] Notes{{notelist}}ReferencesCitations1. ^1 2 {{Cite book|title=Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men: With Contributions from Distinguished Scholars and Scientists|series=Contemporary biography: Pacific States|author1-first=Alonzo|author1-last=Phelps|author2-first=Hubert Howe|author2-last=Bancroft|authorlink2=Hubert Howe Bancroft|author3-first=George|author3-last=Davidson|author4-first=Oscar Penn|author4-last=Fitzgerald|authorlink4=Oscar Penn Fitzgerald|author5-first=Joseph|author5-last=LeConte|authorlink5=Joseph LeConte|publisher=A. L. Bancroft|year=1881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9FOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA177|pp=176–178}} 2. ^1 {{Cite news|newspaper=Mariposa Gazette|volume=18|issue=22|date=November 22, 1872|title=Death of Hon. Edward Tompkins|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MG18721122.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------#}} 3. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18721116.2.39|title=The Death of Edward Tompkins|p=4|newspaper=Sacramento Daily Union|volume=44|issue=6747|date=November 16, 1872|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} 4. ^{{Cite news|newspaper=Kalona News|p=3|date=December 20, 1895|title=A New Writer|url=http://kal.stparchive.com/Archive/KAL/KAL12201895P03.php}} 5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DulXAAAAcAAJ|chapter=Memorial the Regents of the University of California; Amendments of existing laws granting lands for the support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts|title=Senate Documents|volume=265|issue=1–164|author=41st United States Congress|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|year=1870|p=3}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/ralston-fry_wedding/|title=The Ralston-Fry Wedding and the wedding journey to Yosemite May 20, 1858; from the diary of Miss Sarah Haight [Mrs. Edward Tompkins]|editor-first=Francis P.|editor-last=Farquhar|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|year=1961}} 7. ^{{Cite journal|title=Personal|journal=The Elevator|volume=8|issue=32|date=November 16, 1872|p=3|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=EL18721116.2.18#|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} 8. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8FQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA84|p=84|title=A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California: Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of Its Occupancy to the Present Time|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|year=1891}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpp.edu/~reshaffer/Books/black/Skjeie/v1_chap8.htm |archive-url=https://archive.is/20141228222616/http://www.cpp.edu/~reshaffer/Books/black/Skjeie/v1_chap8.htm |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2014-12-28 |title=California and the coming of the Fifteenth Amendment |editor1-first=Sheila M. |editor1-last=Skjeie |editor2-first=Ralph E. |editor2-last=Shaffer |volume=1 |author-first=Sheila M. |author-last=Skjeie |year=2005 |publisher=California State Polytechnic University, Pomona }} 10. ^{{Cite book|year=1910|title=The Life of Daniel Coit Gilman|first=Fabian|last=Franklin|location=New York|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|p=121|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1z09n6v2&chunk.id=div00004&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text|via=Online Archive of California}} 11. ^{{Cite magazine |magazine=The University of California Magazine |date=April 1899 |volume=5 |issue=3 |title=The First Benefactors |pp=101–117 |url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/archives_exhibits/online_exhibits/1899/document_texts/ucmagazine_April1899.html |first=Horatio |last=Stebbins |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917232217/http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/archives_exhibits/online_exhibits/1899/document_texts/ucmagazine_April1899.html |archivedate=2013-09-17 |df= }} 12. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/index.html|title=Regents of the University of California: Historical Overview|website=University of California|date=May 28, 2004}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb887008m3;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00004&toc.id=div00003&brand=oac4|title=Organization of the Board of Regents|year=2009|website=Online Archive of California}} 14. ^{{Cite news|newspaper=Daily Alta California|volume=XXIV|issue=8288|date=December 5, 1872|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection|title=University of California|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18721205.2.18|p=1}} 15. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;Institution=UC%20Berkeley::Bancroft%20Library;titlesAZ=T;descriptions=show;idT=UCb112095525|title=Tompkins family papers : additions, ca. 1861–1903|website=Online Archive of California}} 16. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hWXOAAAAMAAJ|p=44|title=The Report of the Secretary to the Regents of the University of California|author=University of California|year=1891}} 17. ^{{Cite web|url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb4v19n9zb&doc.view=content&chunk.id=div00451&toc.depth=1&&anchor.id=0|title=Endowed Chairs of Learning|website=University of California}} 18. ^{{Cite book|title=The Regents of the University of California|url=http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/nov08/i8attach.pdf|archiveurl=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FAW-X6sPQgwJ:regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/nov08/i8attach.pdf+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|archivedate=December 26, 2014|p=22}} 19. ^{{Cite journal|pp=1–2|title=John Fryer, the First Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature|first=Doris|last=Sze Chun|journal=Chronicle of the University of California|date=Fall 2005|url=http://www.cshe.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/shared/publications/chronicle/Fryer.pdf}} Bibliography
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