DOB given as 1/21/1857 in Wint. Middle name given as Hopkins.

David H. Thomas was born in Catasauqua on December 18, 1860, the son of John and Helen (Thomas) Thomas. He entered the machine shop at the Hokendauqua plant on June 21, 1875, and on April 1, 1880, he was appointed to succeed his cousin as superintendent of Lock Ridge. He was then nineteen. While at Lock Ridge he supervised the modifications to the furnaces described earlier. He resigned this position on March 1, 1885, to manage a furnace plant in Alabama. He remained in Alabama just a short time, leaving to become superintendent of the Troy Steel and Iron Company's furnaces at Breaker Island, N.Y., where he supervised the construction of three new blast furnaces. On April 1, 1888, he was re-employed by the Thomas Iron Company, and served as superintendent of the Hokendauqua plant until March 1, 1893, when he succeeded his father as general superintendent, a position he held for many years.

Mr. Thomas was a life long Republican and he was very active in politics, serving Lehigh County as Register of Wills for one term, during the years of 1910 and 1911. On or about 1914, David H. Thomas and his second wife removed from the Lehigh Valley, settling in Los Angeles, California, and there he died on January, 29, 1934. His mortal remains were returned and deposited in the family vault at Fairview Cemetery.


No “s” after Hopkin according to http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=paynton&id=I23925