Samuel Russell Thomas

Samuel Russell Thomas (April 27, 1840 – January 11, 1903) He was a son of Captain James Thomas (d. 1842) and his wife, a daughter of Captain John Callihan, a War of 1812 soldier.

Thomas was in the rear with the reserve forces during General Sherman's March to the Sea. For one year after the war during the Reconstruction era, He was an Adjutant General on the staff of Oliver Otis Howard until January 1867 when he was honorably mustered out of the army. and the Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and the Richmond and Danville Railroad, the latter two later became the Southern Railway.

Personal life In September 1872, Thomas was married to Ann Augusta Porter (1847–1944), a daughter of Carson Porter, a prominent citizen of Zanesville.

Edward Russell Thomas (1873–1926), a banker and owner of the New York Morning Telegraph, who married three times, first to Linda Lee Thomas, then to Elizabeth Finley, and lastly, to actress Lucy Cotton. Eleanor Nancy Thomas (1878–1920), who married Robert Livingston Beeckman, the Governor of Rhode Island from 1915 to 1921.

He was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Riding Club, the Southern Club, the Union League Club, the Country Club, the Ohio Club, the Lotos Club, the Lawyers' Club and the Jekyl Island Club. He was interred in a mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown (now Sleepy Hollow, New York). A mournful statue, Recueillement (also known as Bronze Lady) at the door of his mausoleum, commissioned by his widow from the noted sculptor Andrew O'Connor, is a popular landmark of the cemetery.

At his death, his estate was estimated to be $10,000,000 (equivalent to $ today). His executors (including George Macculloch Miller) were instructed to invest $100,000 (equivalent to $ today) and pay the income to his son Harold because in his will, Thomas stated: "I make no further provision for my son Harold because his condition, mentally and physically, is such that he is incapable of managing his own affairs." Upon his widow's death in 1944, she left her estate to son Dr. Harold E. Thomas, and not to her late son Edward's children Samuel and Lucetta, "because, in my opinion, each of them is adequately provide for financially".