Margaret Thompson oral history interview, July 1976.
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Digital identifier: HNITCPThompson.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Oral history interview with Margaret Thompson, conducted on 10 and 19 July 1976 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 41 minute interview, Thompson discusses her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, including President William McKinley's reaction to his wife's fainting at an Exposition event.

Index available (based upon original analog audiocassette recording), filed separately. Brief excerpts are available through the Digitial Collections portal of the Nashville Public Library website.

Cite as: Margaret Thompson Oral History Interview, Historic Nashville Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). Copyright status is undetermined.

Restriction: Margaret Thompson's name should not be used in any publication. Except for this restriction, interviewees donated to HNI "for such scholarly and educational purposes as Historic Nashville Inc. shall determine, the use of my taped interview," and consented that "portions of the taped interview may be used in publication."

Historic Nashville, Inc.;,Gift;,circa 1976.,Acc. RT-384.

Other materials created by Historic Nashville, Inc. are also in the holdings of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library.

Margaret Campbell Lipscomb Thompson was born 14 Aug. 1887 to Louisa Allison and James S. Lipscomb. Thompson was educated at Tarbox School, Fogg High School, and Ward Seminary. In 1911, she married Overton Thompson, and they had two children: Overton Thompson, Jr.; and Margaret Thompson (Mrs. Laird Smith). She was a member of the Colonial Dames; Ladies' Hermitage Association; Review Club; Query Club; auxiliary of the Old Women's Home and Polk Memorial Association; Tennessee Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center (Cheekwood); and the Tennessee Historical Society. She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Thompson died 2 June 1979 and was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

In English.

Forms part of Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project.