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From Maryland LeCompte Family Genealogy Project

Family Group Sheets.

Thomas LECOMPTE

Thomas LECOMPTE, born February 26, 1792 on Taylors Island in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland; was married to Elizabeth Washington Medford on March 29, 1823 in Cambridge Maryland in the home of Samuel Cochran by Henry Clift, Esq. Thomas was a farmer and moved to Thompson, Sullivan county, New York in 1835. He was reported in the 1850 census in Sullivan County.

Elizabeth Washington MEDFORD was born on September 20, 1804 in Maryland. She was the daughter of Elisha Medford and his wife, Selah.

The eleven children of Thomas LeCompte and Elizabeth Washington Medford were as follows:

Thomas James, born February, 1824, died March, 1824. John, born 1825. Robert James, born 1828 in Maryland, carpenter. Lydia, born 1830 in Maryland. Edwin Francis, born 1831 or 1832 in Maryland, farmer. Glycera, born 1833 in Maryland. Benjamin Joseph, born 1836 in New York. Sarah Elizabeth, born 1838 in New York. Charles Thomas, born 1840 in New York. Andrew Medford, born 1842 in New York. Louis Willis, born 1845 in New York.

Charles Thomas LECOMPTE, born 1840, married Mary Jane Calkins in 1866. He served with the 18th New York Volunteers in the Civil War. He carried on a considerable correspondence searching for Thomas LeCompte’s lineage.

Civil War Record On April 30, 1861 at age 21, Charles LeCompte enlisted at Middletown, NY. He was mustered in as private in Company D of the 18th New York Infantry Volunteer Regiment, known as the "New York State Rifles,” on May 17, 1861 and served two years. Company D, known as the "Walkill Guards," were recruited largely from Middletown and served under Captain John C. Meginnis, who was promoted to Major on November 11, 1861 and to Lieutenant Col. on August 14, 1862.

After a month of drill they moved out to Meridian Hill near Washington. On July 12 the regiment was ordered to Alexandria and became a part of the 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Northeastern Virginia. The 18th advanced with the army to Manassas. They encountered the enemy on the Braddock Road, at Fairfax Station and Blackburn's Ford. They also acted as support for the artillery in the Battle of Bull Run.

On August 4, they were assigned to Franklin's Brigade and were later commanded by General Newton, Army of the Potomac. On March 10, 1862, the 18th was ordered to Fairfax Court House, and in April, with the 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac, they moved into Bristoe Station.

The 18th was active in the Seven Days' Battles, its loss being the heaviest in the Battle of Gaines Mill. The 18th was then stationed at Harrison's Landing until August 15, when they were ordered to Newport News and on the 24th they reached their camp in Alexandria.

They also played a part in the battles of Crampton's Gap, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. They encamped near Falmouth until they were called upon to participate in the "Mud March" and in the Chancellorsville Campaign. Marye's Heights and Salem Church were the 18th's last battles. On May 16, 1863, they were ordered back to Albany.

The 18th New York took part in the following battles: Reconnaisance on Fairfax Road, July 14, 1861 Advance on Manassas, VA, Fairfax Court House, Battle of Manassas, VA,Duty of the Defenses of Washington DC until March, 1862. Skirmish at Springfield Station, Advance on Massass, VA McDowell's advance on Fredericksburg, VA,Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula,Siege of Yorktown, West Point Seven Days Battles, June 25-July 1, 1862. Gaines Mill, White Oak Swamp and Glendale, Malvern Hill. At Harrison's Landing until August 16, 1862. Cover Pope's retreat to Fairfax Court House, September 1, 1862. Maryland Campaign, Crampton's Gap, South Mountain Campaign. Battle of Antietam, September 16-17, 1862. Battle of Fredericksburg, VA, December 12-15, 1862. "Mud March", Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 6, 1863. Maryes Heights, Fredericksburg, VA, Salem Heights, Banks' Ford, May 4, 1863. Regiment moved to New York, May 16, 1863. 18th New York mustered out, May 28, 1863

Newspaper death notice (c. 1909): "Charles LeCompte was born in Monticello, Sullivan County. He died at age 69 in Buffalo, NY. He is survived by one son, Irville Charles LeCompte, Ph.D. and two daughters, Mrs. Ella Judd, wife of Professor Charles Hubbard Judd, LL.D., director of the School of Education of Chicago University, and Miss Jane Elizabeth LeCompte of New York city. Charles LeCompte was a carpenter and a millwright but in those trades he was an artist and known as 'the man who could not do a poor piece of work.' He was employed as a carpenter in the erection of the Tabernacle M. E. church on Main Street, when the foreman became stuck in attempting to figure out the angles for a peculiar junction of two irregular parts of the roof. After his superior had tried in vain to do the work, Mr. LeCompte snorted out his disgust, requested the man to let someone who knew enough to do the work go about it, and proceeded to fit the timbers perfectly."

Mary Jane CALKINS was born in 1841 in Callicoon, New York.

The four children of Charles Thomas LeCompte and Mary Jane Calkins were as follows:

Glycera, born 1868, died 1870. Ella, born 1879, died 1935. Irville Charles, born July 31,1872 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, died 1957. Jane Elizabeth, born 1881.

Irville Charles LECOMPTE, born 1872, married Harriet Bernice MacLachlan on March 26, 1902. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Minnesota. In 1931 he compiled, with Colbert Searles, Anthology of Modern French Literature and in 1937 authored, with Myrtle Sundeen, Unified French Course.

Harriet Bernice MacLachlan was born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania.

Irville Charles LeCompte received his Ph.D. from the University of Strassburg, Germany. In 1905 he joined Rappoltstein student fraternity.

The following resolution was unanimously adopted by a rising vote of the University of Minnesota Senate at its meeting March 13, 1958.

                           IRVILLE CHARLES LECOMPTE
                                  1872-1957

Professor Emeritus Irville Charles LeCompte, who was born on July 31, 1872 at Pittston, Pennsylvania, came to Minnesota in 1917 as professor of Romance languages, and held that position until his retirement in 1941. Professor LeCompte was primarily a scholar, with a remarkable sense of literary values and almost unerring critical judgment. An idealist himself, he brought to many of his students, sometimes without their realizing it until much later, not only a taste for fine literature, but also some conception of his own search for perfection. He had no patience with indifferent work or careless thinking on the part of student or colleague, and not a few of his graduate students, now teaching in other schools and universities, are fully aware of what they owe to his keen criticism and sincere encouragement. Professor LeCompte’s own studies of Old French Literature are well known, but his most valuable contribution to education at Minnesota was the example he set of professional integrity and sound scholarship. After his retirement, Professor LeCompte took up the study of Russian and perfected himself to such an extent in that language that he was able to make numerous translations of technical documents that were more accurate than any previously available. He died on April 5, 1957 at the age of 84 at Newton Center, Massachusetts. F. L. Morrill, President

The one child of Irville Charles LeCompte and Harriet Bernice MacLachlan was:

Philip Medford LeCompte, born October 4, 1907 in Binghamton, New York.

Philip Medford LECOMPTE married Jean Louise Sykes on July 12, 1939 in Piercefield, New York. He was a medical doctor and served as Chief of Pathology at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He authored, with Shields Warren, Diabetes Mellitus.

Jean Louise SYKES was born on October 29, 1912 in Galeton, Pennsylvania.

The New York Times Obituaries Friday, September 18, 1998 LeCOMPTE—Philip M., M.D., age 90, of Lexington, MA, formerly of Newton Centre, died Tuesday, September 15 at Brookhaven, 1010 Waltham St., Lexington, MA. Born in Binghamton, NY, October 4, 1907, he was the son of Irville Charles LeCompte and Harriet Bernice MacLachlan. Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Minnesota and Phi Beta Kappa, he received his medical degree from Yale Medical School, 1936, where he was elected to two honorary medical societies, Alpha Omega Alpha and Sigma Xi. In 1939, he married Jean Sykes of Conifer, New York, at nearby Lake Massawepie. He then spent a year with Dr. Walter B. Cannon at his Harvard Physiology Laboratory. In 1940 he returned to teaching at Yale and also served as pathologist at Fairfield State Hospital. Dr. LeCompte was Chief of Pathology at the Faulkner Hospital for over thirty years until his retirement in 1974. The pathology laboratory of the new Faulkner Hospital is known as the “Dr. Philip M. LeCompte Laboratory.” He received international recognition for his research in diabetes mellitus and wrote numerous articles and chapters on the subject. In 1966, he co-authored the medical textbook, “The Pathology of Diabetes Mellitus,” with Dr. Shields Warren and Dr. Merle Legg. After his retirement, he held a faculty appointment at Tuft’s University School of Medicine and turned his attention to research and teaching in gastroenterology and co-authored several papers with young investigators. Dr. LeCompte loved medicine and was a role model for young physicians. He was a founding Trustee of the Countway Medical Library and was a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians Forum. In 1947, he was elected the first Chairman of the Newton Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action.

The three children of Philip Medford LeCompte and Jean Louise Sykes were as follows: Anthony Walker LeCompte, born 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut, died 1967. Anne Melinda LeCompte, born 1944 in New Haven, Connecticut. Andrew Philip LeCompte, born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts.