Maud Thompson

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Maud Thompson (November 17, 1870 – September 26, 1962) was an American educator, suffragist, and women’s rights activist. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Wellesley College, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1901 and a master’s degree in 1902. While at Wellesley, she helped start Agora, a political society, and she spoke in favor of women’s suffrage before the Massachusetts Legislature. She earned a Ph.D. in classics from Yale University in 1906, researching women’s property rights in ancient Greece.

Thompson taught Greek and Latin for about 40 years at several schools. She taught at Irving Female College in Pennsylvania, then in Detroit, Michigan. In 1917 she began teaching at college-preparatory schools: one year at the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Alabama, then eight years at the Beard School in Orange, New Jersey as Latin department head. She later taught at the Edgewood School in Greenwich, Connecticut for 18 years as academic director, and finished her career at High Mowing School in Wilton, New Hampshire (1942–1956).

Politically, she joined the Socialist Party in Detroit in 1906 and remained active in socialist and suffragist causes after moving to New Jersey in 1910. She married William Bohn in 1909 and they had a daughter, Rhoda. Maud Thompson died in Port Chester, New York, in 1962 after a brief illness.