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A leading physician and surgeon of Port Chester, New York, Dr. Thomes was born in Portland, Maine, June 12, 1858, and is a worthy representative of one of the honored pioneer families of the Pine Tree state. His father, William H. Thomes, was born at Deering, near Portland, and was a son of Nathaniel and Maria (Day) Thomes, who were natives of the same place and lived upon the old homestead which has been in possession of the family for over one hundred and seventy-five years. The Doctor's great-grandfather Day was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and valiantly aided the colonies in their successful struggle for independence.

Reared on the old homestead, William H. Thomes spent the greater part of his life in his native state; but in 1849, during the gold excitement in California, he went to the Pacific slope and was quite successful in his mining operations there. After his return to Maine he engaged in the grain and flour business in Portland for several years, and this business also proved quite profitable. He was a very ambitious man, was large and powerful in build, and was a stanch Republican in politics. In early manhood he married Miss Frances E. Goodwin, a native of Buxton, Maine, and a daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Alden) Goodwin, the latter a descendant of the noted John Alden, who came to this country in the Mayflower. Mrs. Thomes died at the age of sixty-two years, and her husband at the age of fifty-eight, leaving four children.

Doctor Thomes made his home under the parental roof until his graduation from Bowdoin College, in June, 1886, when he commenced the practice of medicine at Stoughton, Massachusetts, remaining there for three years. He then opened an office in Port Chester, New York, and was not long in building up the large and lucrative practice which he still enjoys. Doctor Thomes has ever been public-spirited and has lent hearty co-operation in .all enterprises for the benefit of the general welfare. He built the White Plains and Port Chester sewers, the Pemblewort Bolt Works, the Putnam lake dam for the Greenwich Water Company, and the Port Chester Bolt & Nut Company's building.

On the 3rd of September, 1890, Dr. Thomes was united in marriage to Miss Edith Farrington, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, a daughter of Samuel and R. Thedora (Talbot) Farrington, both natives of Stoughton and representatives of prominent old Massachusetts families. Her parents are still living, and the father is engaged in business in his native town. To the Doctor and his wife has been born a daughter, Gladys Edith. They are members of the Congregational church and are quite prominent in the best social circles of Port Chester. Politically the Doctor is an ardent Republican and an advocate of a high protective tariff, while socially he is a member of Mamaro Lodge, No. 653, F. & A. M., of Port Chester. Upright, reliable and honorable, his strict adherence to principle commands the respect of all. The place he has won in the medical profession is accorded him in recognition of his skill and ability, and the place which he occupies in the social world is a tribute to that genuine worth and true nobleness of character which are universally recognized and honored.