[2] Thom and Tunstall were among the founding directors of the Norfolk Company, which developed what is now the Ghent Historic District.
[10] Commenting on the legality of the Convention's purposes, Thom said: "We come here to sweep the field of expedients for the purpose of finding some constitutional method of ridding ourselves of [black enfranchisement] forever; and we have the approval of the Supreme Court of the United States in making that effort.
"[11] Thom was one of the founders in 1898 and the first president of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association.
[13] In 1913 Washington and Lee University conferred on Thom an honorary doctor of laws degree.
[14] Thom was Virginia counsel to the Southern Railway,[2] and later relocated to Washington, D.C., as he became general counsel to the Association of Railway Executives, which made him a spokesman for railroad interests before Congress and in the national press during and after World War I.