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About William Boyce Thompson
William Boyce Thompson was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped tremendous fortunes. The William Boyce Thompson School in Yonkers, New York, is named after him.
Everything about William Boyce Thompson →- Occupation
- engineer, banker, mining engineer, diplomat
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 13, 1869
- Died
- June 27, 1930