Thomas H. Atherton

[1] He designed many public buildings in New York and Pennsylvania and a war memorial in France.

[6][7] Atherton is a direct descendant of William Henry, an armorer in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War, who served in the Continental Congress and was a member of Benjamin Franklin's American Philosophical Society.

[8] On his paternal grandmother's side, he is a direct descendant of James Atherton.

[15] After World War I, he returned to civilian life and worked in partnership with Philadelphia architect Paul Philippe Cret on the Pennsylvania Memorial in Varennes–en–Argonne, France.

[11] He also designed the 28th Infantry Division Memorial Shrine located in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.

[13] There, he designed the Myers Warehouses (1922), the 109th Field Artillery Armory (1923), the Market Street Bridge (1924–1929), and the Kirby Memorial Health Center (1929).

[6] Their children were, Mary Altherton, Charles Henry Atherton, and William H.

[15] Atherton served on the Central Registration Bureau's Advisory Committee and the Luzerne County Emergency Relief Board during the Great Depression.

[1] In addition, he was the general campaign chair for the Community Welfare Federation, a three-term president of the Wyoming Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the Wilkes–Bare Kiwanis Club.

[1] He was interested in local and family history and was vice president of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, president of the Forty Fort Cemetery Association, and a member of the Jacobsburg Historical Society and the Wyoming Commemorative Association.

[1] In 1965, he lived part-time in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, retiring there in 1970.