Samuel Clifton Thomson died rather suddenly in New York, on July 13th, 1940, at the age of 70.
He graduated from the Columbia School of Mines, with the degree of E.M., in 1893, and for the next three years was in California, as joint manager of the Nevada Copper Reduction Works for a year and a-half, and for a similar period as manager of prospecting work done by the Lamarque Gold Mining Co.
From 1896 to 1898 he was assistant engineer of the Girard Estate Coalfields at Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, and he then went to South Africa to act as assistant engineer under the late Mr. T.H. Leggett for Messrs. S. Neumann & Co., in Johannesburg. He remained in the Transvaal for a number of years as a consulting engineer in Johannesburg, and returned to the United States in 1915 to practise in New York.
Mr. Thomson was elected a Member of the Institution in 1907.
Vol. 50, Trans IMM 1940-41, pp.554
