[1] In 1912, she founded the Monmouth County Organization for Social Service (MCOSS),[2] which evolved through acquisitions and mergers to become Visiting Nurse Association Health Group in 2011,[3] New Jersey's largest non-profit provider of home health, hospice, and community services.
[6] Their younger brother, journalist Gerald Morgan Sr. (1879-1948), reported on the Nazi invasion of Belgium for the New York Tribune during World War II.
[9] Thompson was a feminist social worker, and her activism was aimed at female prison reform, public health and juvenile justice.
[10] She helped preserve Island Beach as a state park and worked to save wildlife habitat.
[5] Thompson maintained a 40-year romantic and professional relationship with Miriam Van Waters,[11] a prison reformer who served as superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women at Framingham.