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A native of [[Cardiff]], Wales, [[United Kingdom]], he was the son of David and Sarah Thomas. The Thomases entered the United States in 1883 and settled in Scranto], [[Pennsylvania]], where young Thomas received his primary schooling. He was admitted to [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, [[New York]], at which he received an [[Ivy League]] education.<ref name=agan/> He is listed too as a 1904 graduate of the [[University of Michigan]] at Ann Arbor, field of study unspecified in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=David+William+Thomas+in+Minden&source=bl&ots=B1kn8HvnZa&sig=uxe5ofFx8D6LivIPZZa_VDPEVBc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mCb_VOLsI8KqNp-IhMgK&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=David%20William%20Thomas%20in%20Minden&f=false|title="Deaths (Class of 1904)"|publisher=''The Michigan Alumnus'', Vol. 69|page=63|date=October 1962|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref>

A native of [[Cardiff]], Wales, [[United Kingdom]], he was the son of David and Sarah Thomas. The Thomases entered the United States in 1883 and settled in Scranto], [[Pennsylvania]], where young Thomas received his primary schooling. He was admitted to [[Cornell University]] in Ithaca, [[New York]], at which he received an [[Ivy League]] education.<ref name=agan/> He is listed too as a 1904 graduate of the [[University of Michigan]] at Ann Arbor, field of study unspecified in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=David+William+Thomas+in+Minden&source=bl&ots=B1kn8HvnZa&sig=uxe5ofFx8D6LivIPZZa_VDPEVBc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mCb_VOLsI8KqNp-IhMgK&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=David%20William%20Thomas%20in%20Minden&f=false|title="Deaths (Class of 1904)"|publisher=''The Michigan Alumnus'', Vol. 69|page=63|date=October 1962|accessdate=March 10, 2015}}</ref>

After college, Thomas was briefly a [[high school]] [[teacher]] and then a school principal in [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. After several years in Lake Charles, Thomas was hired as professor of [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]] and journalism at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. At the time, LSU was located downtown on the site of the Louisiana State Capitol. While Thomas was a professor at LSU, several students from Minden, including future judge Harmon Caldwell Drew, were students there. Later, H. C. Drew's son, Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., was a city judge and state representative. Harmonb Drew, Sr., was a pallbearer at Thomas's funeral, along with other prominent civic figures, including another mayor, [[John T. David]].<ref name=agan/>

After college, Thomas was briefly a [[high school]] [[teacher]] and then a school principal in [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. After several years in Lake Charles, Thomas was hired as professor of [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]] and journalism at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. At the time, LSU was located downtown on the site of the Louisiana State Capitol. While Thomas was a professor at LSU, several students from Minden, including future judge [[Harmon Caldwell Drew]], were students there. Later, H. C. Drew's son, Richard Harmon Drew, Sr., was a city judge and state representative. Harmonb Drew, Sr., was a pallbearer at Thomas's funeral, along with other prominent civic figures, including another mayor, [[John T. David]].<ref name=agan/>

==Higher education and journalism==

==Higher education and journalism==