Record of Burial

Arthur C. Thomson

23 Sumner Road, Brookline, Mass.

Arthur Cecil Thomson was born in New Haven, March 19,
1860, the only child of Charles Henry Thomson and Cecile
Maria (Lewis) Thomson, who were married in Farmington,
Conn., November 23, 1858.

Charles H. Thomson (born New Haven, December 5, 1836,
died Stockbridge, Mass., August 4, 1884) was descended from
Anthony Thompson of Lenham, England, who landed at Boston
from the ship Hector in 1637, and was among the first settlers
of New Haven.

Cecile M. (Lewis) Thomson (born Farmington, November 2,
1834, died New Haven, December 14, 1860) was the daughter of
Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis of Farmington.

In college Thomson was a member of Delta Kappa and played
on our freshman eleven. He remained with our class only during

freshman year, when he entered ‘85, with whom he became
a member of Scroll and Key.

For several years he made New Haven his headquarters and
occupied himself in looking after real estate in Chicago and New
Haven, but in 1890 he moved to New York. He is now settled
in Brookline, Mass., is interested in investments in Chicago and
elsewhere, and as minor occupations, devotes considerable time
to tracing genealogies and to photography. He is one of the
donors of the land on which is being constructed the so-called
“Bowl” at the new Yale Field. He is also well-known as the
donor of the silver cups that are bestowed annually on the best
all-round graduates of Phillips Andover, Phillips Exeter and
Hotchkiss schools, intending to enter Yale. The influence of
these cups is highly commended by the principals of these schools.

October 24, 1889, he married Lillian Cornelia Rice, daughter
of George Rice, of New Haven. They have had four children:
Eliot Cecil, born New York, October 22, 1890 (Yale ‘13) ; Cecile
Lewis, born New York, February 7, 1892, married Orrin Grout
Wood of Brookline, March 29, 1913; Marian Carter, born New
York, March 29, 1893, and Allan Loring, born Brookline, January
17, 1896, died Brookline, February 23, 1898.