COMPARETTE, THOMAS LOUIS: 1868-1922.
Thomas Louis Comparette , son of Alexander Charles and Mary Jane Forder Comparette, was born in Dekalb County, Ind., on Apr. 9, 1868. He attended the University of Wooster, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1893, and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1901. He also studied in Rome and in Germany .
From 1893 to 1897 he was professor of Greek and Latin at Texas Christian University, in 1905 was an assistant in Latin at the University of Missouri , and after 1905 served as curator of the Numismatic Collection of the U. S. Mint at Philadelphia .
He died on July 3, 1922.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Debasement of the Silver Coinage Under the Emperor
Nero. 1914.
- Aes Signatum. New York, 1919.
- Descriptive Catalog Selected Greek Coins. 1921.
