Theron q dumont biography of martin

Theron Q. Dumont (aka William Walker Atkinson) (1862-1932)

Theron Q. Dumont, whose real name was William Walker Atkinson, was a very important and influential figure in the early days of the New Thought Movement.

Little is known about his early years, except that he was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson, both of whom were born in Maryland also.

He married Margaret Foster Black of Beverley, New Jersey on October 1889 and they had two children.

He pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bars of Pennsylvania. Whilst he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster.

He looked for healing and in the late 1880's he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck a