Seymour D. (Seymour Dwight) Thompson

Born in Will County, Illinois, on September 18, 1842, Seymour Dwight Thompson served in the Union army during the Civil War. Records linked to his burial and obituary note that he served with the 3rd Iowa Infantry and later as a captain in a U.S. Colored Artillery unit.

After the war, he became a lawyer and later an associate justice of the St. Louis Court of Appeals. He was also a notably productive author of legal works, including major treatises on trials, private corporations, and stockholders' liability, as well as a regimental history, Recollections with the Third Iowa Regiment.

Thompson died in East Orange, New Jersey, on August 11, 1904, and was buried in Rosedale Cemetery in Montclair. Contemporary notices remembered him not only as a judge, but as an author of many works on legal practice.