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James Armstrong Thome (1813-1873) H was born in Augusta, Kentucky Was professor at Oberlin, 1838–1848, and pastor in Cleveland, 1848-1871.

Thome was minister of First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn (Ohio City) from 1848-71, where he continued in the antislavery movement and raised funds for black education. In 1867, he took a year-long sabbatical to go to England to seek aid from benevolent societies to help freed slaves. Thome's church united with Congregationalists in 1857 and became First Congregational Church of Cleveland. He resigned as minister in 1871, a few years later dying of pneumonia in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he had gone to continue his ministry. He married Anna S. Allen in 1838; they had three daughters, Mary Elizabeth, Anna Bradford, and Maria Ellen. (https://case.edu/ech/articles/t/thome-james

James A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball, Emancipation in the West Indies (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838)Emancipation in the West Indies

A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837

By James A. Thome, J. Horace Kimball · 2010

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Emancipation in the West Indies : a six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica in the year 1837 / by Jas. A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball

Debate at the Lane Seminary, Cincinnati; Speech of James A. Thome, of Kentucky, Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Letter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Cox, Against the American Colonization Society (Boston, 1834):

Thome jointly authored a paper, "Slavery and the Internal Trade in the United States," submitted to the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London